Javed Akhtar turned 72 on January 17.
With two directors -- Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta -- whose films have been nominated for Oscars, and with the veteran actress Shabana Azmi and the relatively younger Preity Zinta joining the celebrities, the eighth edition of the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival opens on Wednesday in New York.
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.
'She's the best actor in the family,' her dad, arguably the finest actor in all of Bollywood, said later.
A celebrity book launch for psychiatrist, Dr Anjali Chhabria.
Om Puri looks back at the days of shooting City Of Joy with the star, who died on Monday.
'I always felt that Basu Chatterjee was a kind, gentle, man who truly believed that in directing films like Chhoti Si Baat, he was impacting our lives,' remembers Aseem Chhabra. 'He seemed to be on a mission to make us believe that the world could be a better place.'
In Jee Le Zaraa, Zoya Akhtar's swanky new road trip to self-discovery, our favourite gal pals Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif and Alia Bhatt are set to take off on a whirlwind adventure.
There are so many patriotic songs that make us proud to be Indians.
The American dancer, actor, singer and songwriter who also starred with Om Puri, Shabana Azmi and Ayesha Dharker in the 1992 film, City of Joy is currently undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer, the Daily Telegraph said.
The President will give away the Fakharuddin Ali Ahmed Award to noted film personality Shabana Azmi and journalist Shekhar Gupta at a function to be organized at the Pragjyoti ITA Cultural Complex, Machkhowa in Guwahati on Sunday evening.
Take a look at the guests.
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The crew of the film, which stars actress Shabana Azmi, reached the Dargah Barhane Shah graveyard in Santoshnagar area on Monday and dug up a fake grave for the shoot. Local residents spotted the film crew and raised objections against shooting at the graveyard. When the locals asked the unit members whether they had obtained permission from the Andhra Pradesh state Wakf Board to shoot in the graveyard, they claimed that they had done so.They failed to produce the documents.
'There's just a handful of roles for a few actresses.' 'When I meet other actresses my age, they say the same thing: No roles!'
Here's a look a Bollywood films featuring girl-on-girl action!
Wading through the long list of biopics coming up, Subhash K Jha picks the ones likely to make a mark.
On the sets of Sanjay Gupta's Dus Kahaniyaan.
Karan Johar talks to Javed and Farhan Akhtar and Shabana Azmi about marriage and movies.
Joginder Tuteja lists the films and Web shows coming up.
India-born author Salman Rushdie and Indian Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta will collaborate to produce a movie based on his prize winning novel Midnight's Children.
Here's a round-up of the celebs who attended Manish Malhotra's grand finale at Lakme Fashion Week Winter Festive 2017.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Perfect occasion for Sukanya Verma to look into all the Woh woes in Hindi cinema.
But all these voter identity cards are fakes.
'There is a lot that I find extremely annoying in Ramu, like his constant attempts to shock and stir up controversy by needlessly needling sacred cows.' Subhash K Jha salutes the maverick filmmaker on his birthday.
'Suhana is very serious about a career in acting.'
Subhash K Jha gives us the very best of Waheeda Rehman.
'It didn't matter to him if he was not the focus of attention in a film.'
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