Ram Gopal Varma's Rakht Charitra was the first and last film for which Shatrughan Sinha was persuaded to shave off his trademark moustache.
Andhra Pradesh Police are searching for film director Ram Gopal Varma after he failed to appear for an investigation regarding his alleged offensive social media posts against Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and others. Varma's lawyer claimed that the director would cooperate with the investigation via "digital mode" as "digital policing is prevalent all over India now." However, police have stated that Varma was given ample time and has failed to show up for the investigation twice. The police are combing every place where Varma is suspected to be present.
'If there is one thing Shyam Benegal expressed best: It was the Poetry of the ordinary face and ordinary lives.'
'The way the anticipation is built up for Gabbar Singh's introduction scene with sound, image and details of his personality, like the combat boots he wears.' 'The camera comes so close -- not a tele lens shot, but a wide-angle close-up -- that you can almost smell Gabbar's breath.'
January has quite a few interesting movies lined up for release. But with the new, there's also a sprinkling of the old.
Shravya Varma, the talented niece of film-maker Ram Gopal Varma, and badminton ace Srikanth Kidambi sealed their bond in a grand wedding ceremony in Hyderabad on Saturday.
'When Rahman reached the studio, he heard Sukhwinder fooling around on the mike. Rahman liked what he heard and incorporated it into Jai Ho.'
'It's a tremendous accomplishment to have a father like Amitabh Bachchan and still be so sorted, to not taste the kind of success that he should have and yet be so balanced.'
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A Rajkot resident has charged the makers and cast of Bhoot with mental torture.
Capital punishment brings the state, the highest invention of humanity, down to the level of the barbarity it is supposed to rise above, says Mihir S Sharma
While Satya's pleasures are palpable -- among them the poetry of the coarse language, the mercifully rough-hewn texture, the oh-so-familiar underdog story -- these pleasures hit you at a completely different speed. The movie is charged with a sense of discovery, and every shot is a cornucopia of details existing independent of the main story. It's touching, notes Sreehari Nair.
'He surprised us by telling us he wanted to make a career in acting.' 'We were scared since we knew nothing of this profession but then, he landed a role in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding.' 'After seeing him holding his own on screen, we decided to let the boy pursue his passion.'
'With Chhaava, we had to look from a different lens.' 'We had to write it in such a way that apart from the sacrifice, the fight and the war, there's a lot more to understand about the history of the Marathas.'
One waits to see where Munjya land though rest assured, a lifetime score of over Rs 50 crores is guaranteed from this point on.
The two-part trend for blockbuster films was started by S S Rajamouli.
After getting a seven-minute standing ovation at Cannes, Sunny Leone gave her friends at home a special preview of her new film, Kennedy.
'He was a visionary who redefined storytelling and inspired generations.'
Bollywood doesn't need fire-breathing dragons when it has Bhai.
'Raju sir has a classical approach to cinema and it's paid rich dividends for him. I suppose I'm a bit edgy and non-conformist.'
'I have always been attracted to the dark side of human beings.'
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'Randeep Hooda's a very bossy kind of person.'
'D Company is obviously not a registered company, but the way he organised it, with his kind of vision, which finished the Pathan gang and the older members.'
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Joginder Tuteja lists April's theatre releases.
Joginder Tuteja looks at how successful the genre has been in recent times.
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In a career spanning 30 years, Urmila Mantodkar has played everything from a killer to a stalker to a rape survivor.
The menfolk of Bollywood are celebrating their women in the sweetest way possible!
'The maximum struggle that I have gone through in this industry was to try to get a film made which had a female action star.' 'And that film never got made, despite reaching out to some of the biggest actresses.'
'You're going to have your own journey and that can be very beautiful.' 'It can also be very terrifying because there is no precedence.'
Megastar Rajinikanth turns 70 on December 12.
Joginder Tuteja looks at films set in the jungles.
'If you ask me where I want my career to go, I have been saying this for a long time: I want to do a K-drama. I want to be in Korea doing a love story, full of romance.'
Ajay Devgn, not Karthi, will be playing the lead in the Hindi remake of Kaithi entitled Bholaa.
Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag fails to live up to the original.
'Elections and audience interest in specific movies are often independent factors.'
What if Sajid Khan, who recently gave us Humshakals, touched our classics? Would cinema be as good? We take a look.
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