Boong was the only Indian nominee at the ceremony and the first Indian film to win the Best Children and Family Film award.
'I played five different versions of Woh Subah Kabhie Toh Aayegi for Raj Kapoor, only to be greeted with a totally blank reaction.' 'Thereafter, for 40 minutes, he disappeared, leaving us baffled.' 'But when he emerged, he couldn't stop appreciating our efforts!' 'He said Sahir Ludhianvi's writing was sheer poetry and since all my five tunes were equally wonderful, he would leave it to my discretion to chose the final tune.' 'What could be greater appreciation for an artiste?'
'Panchamda created an exclusive theme music for Gabbar Singh, which is used throughout the film every time the dacoit makes an appearance, and in both concept and sound, is so eerie and evil.'
'I couldn't see the injury but I knew it was bad from the expression on Aamir's face.'
'Each of us will have a beautiful story to tell about him because he went beyond work and touched our lives. That's a rarity in this industry.'
'The flutters of excitement of a high-school romance, and then how life changes.'
Mayur Sanap lists five films at MAMI 2024 that took his breath away.
Kareena Kapoor Khan's much-awaited film The Buckingham Murders is set release on September 13 and Hansal Mehta's directorial venture sure looks like a promising crime thriller.
Kareena's sombre performance lingered on long after I had left the theatre, notes Sukanya Verma.
'I made it very clear even at the casting process that there was going to be a lot of nudity.' 'And I wanted to be sure that it would be done with ease.'
A major fire broke out on the sets of TV serial Gum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin in Film City, Mumbai, on Friday afternoon, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said.
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The consecration of the Ram temple in Ayodhya saw different kinds of celebrations across the country. This was one of them.
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Day Three at the Mumbai Film Festival.
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The 15th Mumbai Film festival comes to an end.
The Great Beauty, Blue Is The Warmest Colour and many others feature on the list.
Indo-Pak tensions cast its shadow on the Mumbai International Film Festival with organisers on Monday dropping Pakistani film "Jago Hua Savera" in its retrospective section amid threats of protests at its screening.
The 14th Mumbai Film festival kickstarted with much fanfare.
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'The primary set took over three months to build with 14,000-15,000 workers employed at a time.'
'We ensured that Mallikajaan's Shahi Mahal lived up to its name.' 'One zardosi panel cost around Rs 4 lakh; the one with the kalpavriksh was around Rs 5 lakh.'
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Aseem Chhabra picks his favourite films from MAMI.
MAMI will showcase over 250 films spread across 10 days from October 27 to November 5.
The actor was honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Images on the grand finale.
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All India Rank achieves a fine balance of authenticity and sensitivity in the fine portrayals of its young actors and old.
Sonam Kapoor feels film-makers prefer to cast her in girl-next-door parts rather than giving her a chance to star in movies that will need her to wear heavy costumes and jewellery.
Some of her best films are not available on streaming platforms, but Deepa Gahlot looks at her Hindi cinema oeuvre on OTT.
'Sonakshi Sinha, Imran Khan and other stars say MFF is their film festival. In reality, the festival belongs to Mumbaikars, who wait in long lines, rushing from theatre to theatre.'
'When democracy first came to Bhutan people had no idea and they were like 'What is that?' Oh it's that thing they have in India where the leaders are always fighting and arguing.' When I screened the film to Bhutan's film committee, they thought my film was good but they were concerned about that line. They wanted me to change that line. They said, 'We don't want to offend India.' I tried to tell them that Indians have a great ability to laugh at themselves but they insisted I change it.'
Sukanya Verma gives us a lowdown on all those wonderful movies she saw and movies you need to see as and when they arrive to a screen or streaming space near you.
Brilliant movies from China, Ethiopia, Austria and India line up for Mumbai.
'Agra is about sexuality and sexual repression, and the relationship of sexuality to the physical spaces that we are in.'
'The idea of this movie is to trace these journeys and not to blame.' 'We could have talked what happened in 1948. This is what the Israelis did. This is what the Palestinians and Arabs did.' 'We didn't want to go there.'
'What the film shows is an India, which was headed in a completely different direction than where we are headed.'
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