All the winners in the assembly bypolls were from the respective ruling parties.
Plus there's Javed Akhtar and Shatrughan Sinha.
'Senior leaders and my father not given respect in the BJP.'
'Lata didi's voice was as pure as a bell that rings in a temple.'
Bihar's political corridors are buzzing with rumours of the star-politician joining hands with Nitish Kumar.
'In the last seven years or so, many reigning heroes have stopped working with him because no matter how popular a star they are, irrespective of whether they are playing the lead, it eventually becomes an Amitabh Bachchan film!'
Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Thursday said that only Shatrughan Sinha and Shahnawaz Hussain are secular leaders in the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Pushed to the backfoot by the controversial remarks of its MP Shatrughan Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday compared him with Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh saying it is best to ignore such leaders.
Reader Shirish Payasi sends us a picture from Jabalpur airport.
While Narendra Modi addresses rally after rally in Bihar, Shatrughan Sinha has been left out of the BJP's campaign.
'People want to see Mr Sinha win again because he has always been there for Patna whether he has been a leader or not.' 'Even when he was an actor, he was a proud Bihari.' 'He is not doing it because he only wants to win an election, he wants to do it because he really loves Bihar.'
Salman Khan hosts Eid party.
Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who joined the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha election, lost to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar by 2.84 votes.
Nihalani was chosen on the recommendation of Shatrughan Sinha.
Asking that if all these leaders and actors accompanying the Pakistani journalists are Inter-Services Intelligence's contacts, Singh asserted that he would have invited her again had there been no visa restrictions between India and Pakistan.
Bijendra Prasad Yadav, the senior-most minister in the state cabinet, also lamented that the lack of cohesion was causing allies to engage in allegations and counter allegations, a job best left to the Opposition.
'Alia is not looking at marriage anytime in the near future.'
Shatrugan Sinha's son Luv Sinha on his upcoming film Sadiyaan.
Nowhere else has caste, power politics, and generational change come together to form a combination so potent that it is combustible.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget speech on Wednesday was marked by the usual thumping of benches by the ruling alliance members, but the loudest cheer was reserved for her announcement of income tax relief, which was welcomed by 'Modi, Modi' chants in Lok Sabha that also witnessed a few instances of protest by the Opposition.
It's very easy to keep up with the children of Bollywood's leading heroes. But what about Bollywood's biggest villains?
The Stardust 50th Anniversary Honours awards saw the who's who of Bollywood on the red carpet.
A team worked together. Today, there is no such team, said Sinha.
51 constituencies across 7 states go to the polls in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election.
'The BJP leadership knew I was unhappy.' 'No one came forward to speak to me. There was no dialogue at all.' 'It was as if they had shut me out.'
Bollywood shows its support for Salman Khan.
He was replaced by the then hot and saleable Sanjay Khan.
'Though he was senior to me, our careers were uncannily similar: villain, then hero, then politician for the BJP... We made all the transitions together.' Shatrughan Sinha pays rich tribute to Vinod Khanna.
He said his 'Rashtra Manch', a political action group, would start a movement against the policies of the Centre.
Appearing before cheering fans at the star-studded opening ceremony of the Kolkata International Film Festival in Kolkata on Thursday, Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan spoke of staying positive and alive, and on the new crop of historical films being steeped in 'fictionalised jingoism'.
They entered the Bihar poll battle to protect and carry forward their fathers' political legacy, but many of them could not win their own seat though some tasted victory.
She joined the SP the day Rajnath Singh filed his nomination papers, hoping to retain the seat he won in 2014.
Bollywood has quite a few actors known for their magical awaaz.
The four choices offered to candidates were: Sharad Yadav, Shatrughan Sinha, Lalu Prasad Yadav and Vijay Rupani.
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