Here's looking at the films that failed at the box office in the first half of this year.
Business is better than usual in Bollywood.
'If you step out and take a walk on the streets, you will see hundreds of people like me.' 'They relate to me. I am their representative.'
Kareena: Bajrangi Bhaijaan will be the biggest hit of the year
'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.'
Looking at the big winners of the year.
Iconic Dalal Street investors Rakesh Jhunjhunwala and Radhakishan Damani, known for their stock picks, have forged an unusual partnership to make Bollywood flicks.
'I barely manage to be in front of the camera and act.' Amitabh Bachchan gets shockingly modest.
Bombay Velvet was Bollywood's biggest flop this year.
'I am zapped by what an incredible actor he is.' 'He does his work bindass, but he understands films better than anybody else.'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'I am not a people's person. It takes time for me to warm up to people. My biggest fear was...' Hear it from Khatron Ke Khiladi host Arjun Kapoor himself.
'Today, moviegoers are in the 13 to 33 age bracket.' 'If people like us have to remain relevant, we have to make movies that cater to them,'
A look at the top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'Sridevi was a responsible mother.' 'I have heard her talking about her daughters.' 'Once in a while, they came on set. She would make sure she had time for them.' 'That's why she could play a mother so wonderfully in English Vinglish.'
'We should celebrate when a girl hits puberty, just the way we celebrate New Year, Holi, Diwali.'
Qimat Rai Gupta's roots were truly modest. Early in life, he had even sold oil on a cycle in the villages of Punjab.
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Shamitabh spends all its time explaining its own jokes, notes Raja Sen.
'Kolaveri Di refuses to leave me after four years. I don't know how to get rid of that song. Wherever I go, people request me to sing two lines.' Dhanush leaves his chartbuster song Kolaveri Di behind, and moves forward with Shamitabh.
Raja Sen picks the bad movies of the year so far.
Sreehari Nair is *not* impressed by this lot of films at all.
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'Some days I would feel disappointed, but not many people knew that I wanted to be an actress. I had to wait, and I would keep telling myself to stop complaining,' Akshara Haasan tells Patcy N/ Rediff.com
Raja Krishna Menon, who had directed Airlift before he moved to Chef, shares his movie experiences.
'I may have been six, but children at that age are aware that there is something called death. I was petrified for Pa, but tried not to show it. I would pray every night, begging for his recovery, at the same time sneaking in a request for a new toy or a pencil set.'
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