'I wasn't getting the roles I wanted to play and the respect I thought I deserved as a senior actor, so I cut myself off from the industry for a while and moved to the US.'
'After pack-up, Sridevi took a shower in the studio itself, changed, and returned to the set with a wad of notes.' 'She distributed it amongst every technician who had worked on the song Na Jaane Kahan Se Aaye Hai.'
From original films to Web series across genres, as well as the biggest Bollywood grosser of 2022, Joginder Tuteja lists the good stuff coming to you.
From light-hearted comedies to medical dramas to stories set in the heartland, there's something for everyone.
Deepika Padukone embodies to perfection the Gehraiyaan in the title, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Mee Raqsam touches on the sensitive issue of a Muslim girl's determination to learn Bharata Natyam.
While Ayushmann Khurrana gets our nod to play Aamir Khan in Lagaan, it's time to recast the team of Gadar.
After Maqbool and Haider, Tabu reunites with director Vishal Bhardwaj in a spy thriller called Khufiya. But that's not all.
'Comedy is way more difficult than the serious stuff.'
Is an actress' movie career over when she gets married? Not if you are Yami Gautam!
As she turns 70 on September 18, Subhash K Jha picks five classic Shabana performances which you may have missed.
Desi sightings in Western fare are no longer a rarity.
Sukanya Verma looks at husband and wife filmi collaborations.
Entertainment may be its raison d'etre but the tears brought about by cinema are no less significant.
I remember a showbiz wedding during which guests had to sit through several painstakingly rehearsed but awkward dances performed by the bride's and groom's relatives. When Karan rolled his eyes, I smiled and said to him, 'You started it, now you suffer it.' An enchanting excerpt from Anupama Chopra's A Place In My Heart.
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'He was perfectly happy sitting around in his undershirt sans his wig, with us all and scratching himself and breaking wind.'
'I've never been more nervous about any of my own films. I can't eat, sleep or speak. I can barely breathe.'
Alkazi, who was the longest serving director of the National School of Drama and mentored generations of actors, produced plays such as Girish Karnad's Tughlaq and Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug.
'If I cared about what is being said and written about me, then I'd get consumed by it and wouldn't have time for what I'm doing.'
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Shakeela is just not the kind of movie you would recommend to family and friends, notes Joginder Tuteja.
'The reaction to Cutting Chai has been, "I never thought you could do something like this!" and I like that.'
'We are all too scared of what she will say next, so everyone keeps quiet. But she takes our silence to be an encouragement for her attack.'
Hardcore action, romance and politics, April has a lot to offer!
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'We are thinking on something like the 'Irrfan Memorial Award' given to the most promising new actor.'
'There doesn't seem to be much to look forward to in the new year.'
'I noticed the audience warming up to The Blueberry Hunt at different points. The surprise was the reaction from the aam aadmi, the common man. They loved the film!' Director Anup Kurian discusses his film.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the most successful teachers in Hindi movies.
Bollywood has quite a few actors known for their magical awaaz.
Huma Qureshi shares her experience of working with established actors in Dedh Ishqiya and why she was nervous dancing alongside Madhuri.
Naseeruddin Shah talks about his latest film, Dedh Ishqiya, and also discusses the gender bias in the film industry today.
'Alkazisaab trained innumerable actors to be good human beings.'
While we wait for Batra's latest to drop on Amazon Prime Video on February 11, Sukanya Verma looks at how Bollywood has dealt with affairs of the heart over the years.
'What is there to worry about, he has asked, when there is so much freedom in the country?' 'Freedom can never be adequate, as Kher seems to think.' 'Its presence should be so pervasive that all citizens will feel secure and expect justice to be done if anything untoward happens,' argues Amulya Ganguli.
Bollywood celebs and cricketers attended the film's screening.
