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Rediff.com journalist passes away

At home with Tillotama Shome

'There is too much pressure on being perfect, so I like the fact that I have an incomplete painting in my home.' 'That represents the chaos of Mumbai and also represents the fact that I am also a work-in-progress, far from being completed.'

'I am queen of the heartland of India'

'The idea is to celebrate your imperfections because God has made us all the same, right?'

'I can travel that extra mile just to listen to Kishoriji'

Amol Palekar tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com how he captured Kishori Amonkar's life in his documentary called Bhinna Shadaj.

'My films tend to be dark'

Page 3 director Madhur Bhandarkar on his new film.

Sidharth Malhotra: What my movies taught me

'I would get bored if I played the same kind of roles and looked the same throughout the years.'

'Amjad did not sound like a dacoit'

'I have done so many films but even today when I walk on the road, people call me Kaalia. I don't feel bad. I feel proud that people have seen me in Sholay and remember me.'

AMAZING Bollywood photographs, right here!

Isn't Richa Chadha looking gorgeous?

'Irrfan doesn't want your pity. He wants your love'

'He's got such incredible resilience, such an incredible spirit that we were feeding off his strength rather than him feeding off ours.' 'Sometimes I look back and cannot figure out how the f*** we made this movie.'

Why Shahid Kapoor was 'SHIT SCARED'!

'You must always feel the need to do something different, something new.' 'I don't think I should be content.'

'A lot of men will be affected by PadMan'

'For women, it's about, 'See idiot, this is what we go through.' For that, they will get their men.' 'When he comes, he will understand women's problems and say, "You are special" and she will get that 10 minutes ka bhaav. But it's very important.'

Dia on Ranbir, Sanju, playing Maanayata

'People who went on the sets thought Ranbir was Sanju sir.' 'Ranbir made Sanju sir his own.'

A silent film where Prabhudeva doesn't dance!

'Mercury is a thriller about a big corporate company exploiting a small town.' 'Audiences will come for entertainment and they will be entertained.'

'If many people like this film, we can think of Mardaani 2'

'My last two films didn't do well... I was so hurt that I am scared of laughing or being happy now.' Director Pradeep Sarkar discusses Mardaani with Patcy N.

What stops Alia from being BAD!

'Guilt. I feel guilty.' 'I want people to like me and I want to be liked.'

'Kajol's sense of humour is superb'

'Success is not easily gained. Even if it is, it's very hard to sustain it.'

'I have work and am paying my rent on time'

'I have always wanted to do a rom-com but I always get hard-hitting characters. I thought that if I do a rom-com at 50, it will look silly. So I was excited that it come to me at the right time.' Amit Sadh discusses his new film.

'I don't regret anything in life'

Urvashi Rautela tells Rediff.com's Patcy N why she became a part of Hate Story 4.

'Going to work with Deven Verma was like going to a picnic'

'Deven Verma was a good friend, a good actor and a very good human being,' Aruna Irani tells Patcy N.

'Ranveer gives you goosebumps'

'He took Simmba to a different level.' 'Sara has the energy of a commercial heroine.' 'She has a very bright future.'

'I want to be a pan-Indian entertainer'

'After Bharat Ane Nenu, I have been getting a lot of interesting scripts from the Telugu industry.' 'I would like to balance between Hindi and Telugu films.'

'I still suffer from trauma'

'Who will give me that (lost) time?' 'The stress I have gone through, the stress my family has gone through.' 'We have not laughed in seven, eight years.'

'What happens during a raid? No one knows'

'We always know on whose house the raid was conducted, and how much money was recovered.' 'We never know what happens inside when the raid is going on.'

'After working with SRK and Hrithik, I've realised there's no short cut to success'

Actor Narendra Jha passes away.

When McSher met Thor...

'When I met him, I was a behaving like a 16 year old!' 'He is incredible, very casual and chilled out.' 'He told me he would watch Gully Boy and then he said a dialogue from Gully Boy, 'Bahut hard!'.'

'If you feel something is correct in life, stand for it'

'Go against society and people for that.' 'You don't have to be politically correct always.'

'I have never feared that I will not have work'

'I am not such an actor that hits and flops will decide my career.'

'My mom painted such a colourful world'

'I think my mom's fear came from the fact that I would be compared to her.' 'She was worried about the comparisons because she would say, "I have done 400 films and this is your first, but they will compare you to my 400 films".'

'People say the ghosts in my films were not scary'

'Films were made on a very low budget, so if there was a small defect, we would let it pass, and audiences often didn't catch those defects.' Shyam Ramsay tells us his 'horror' story.

Meet Moosa from The Family Man

'Raj and DK have taken the effort to look at Moosa as a person.' 'Like, what happened to him?' 'What made him become a terrorist?' 'The emotional trauma that he might have had... that clicked for me.'

What Akshay Kumar wants to tell ALL heroes!

'In our textbooks, we never had chapters where a woman does something. We had one Rani Laxmibai chapter, the rest only the men did. We have been trained like that but, now, things have to change.'

'Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa worked because of Shah Rukh Khan'

Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa director Kundan Shah tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com how he impressed he was with Shah Rukh in his early years.

'It was scary working with Irrfan, Dulquer Salmaan'

'I was like a child in Disneyland! There was Irrfan Khan, Dulquer Salmaan...' Mithila Palkar confesses to Rediff.com's Patcy N.

'The fear is gone'

'I want to do an action film every two years.'

How Varun amused Madhuri as a kid

'He would dance and I would give him marks.' 'If I gave him five on 10, he would get disappointed.' 'So I would ask him to do better, and he would try and do better.'

'It's a musical revolution, it's kranti!'

'Alia's security watched the film with us -- he belongs to the Simmba audience because he saw it multiple times and loved it.' 'After watching Gully Boy, there were tears in his eyes.' 'And he's a 120 kilo muscular guy!'

'I will recover my money on Badlapur over the weekend'

'Badlapur might end up being my most successful film,' producer Dinesh Vijan tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com

The Kader Khan interview you must read

'I went away from the industry because all the people I enjoyed working with, like Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra, are no more.' 'They left this world and went away, so I lost interest in my work.'

'Abhay Deol dancing is the USP of our film'

'Anything serious should be said with a hint of comedy.' 'Only then will people understand it better.'

Why John Abraham still travels by rickshaw

'My middle class upbringing has shaped me up like that.' 'I am not saying actors are bad -- they are lovely people -- but I don't know which world they come from.' 'They come with their baggage, this aura...'