Looking to introduce your child to films that will cultivate their taste and broaden their horizon? Sukanya Verma offers a list of movies that is as entertaining as it is enriching.
'Good actors are supposed to be guys who wear kurta-pajama and look soft and nice.' 'People like me are not in that category.'
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.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'You were looking for perfection in an incurably imperfect world,' mourns Subhash K Jha who knew Sushant Singh Rajput well.
Kapil Dev's historic World Cup win wasn't the only highlight of 1983. Sukanya Verma looks back how the year treated Bollywood.
Anil Kapoor's mastery shows in how he finds the space between an actor reaching out to his actuality while remaining an actor while Anurag Kashyap's comfort in bullying his co-actor fuels their bickering camaraderie, notes Sukanya Verma.
The hits and misses of the week.
The veteran filmmaker passed away in Mumbai. He was 88.
'A whole universe of feelings and moods went into them.'
'If you are dark, you can't be a hero.' 'If you have curly hair, you can't be a hero.' 'If you were muscular, you had to become a fighter.' 'Today if you are muscular, you can be a hero.' 'Salman Khan made being muscular fashionable.'
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
The hits and misses of the week.
The hits and misses of the week.
Box Office: Vishwaroop II is a disaster
'I am not the kind of person who will stand up and complain. I have no complaints against anyone. If I've been away from the entertainment industry, it's because I am not into selling myself.'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
'India has decided - Democracy needs to be celebrated.'
The latest updates from the Tamil film industry.
'Every time I watch Sholay telling myself that it is nothing more than a 'brazen potboiler,' the movie works. However, each time I take it for this iconic masterpiece, Sholay falls short; terribly short,' says Sreehari Nair.
The US president was most likely chewing Nicorette, a nicotine gum.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
These pictures will surely make you feel nostalgic.
How superhero movies fared at the turnstiles.
Harshvardhan Kapoor's vigilante film, Bhavesh Joshi, made Sukanya Verma look back at Bollywood's original vigilante and Harshvardhan's father, Anil Kapoor, in and as Mr India, which released on May 25, 1987.
Hindi cinema has not just explored various instances of brute force, but often glorified its misogyny.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
A Ganesh Nadar wonders what Kamal Hassan hopes to achieve with this film.
'Politics has risen around Padmavati, but the film has nothing political in it.'
This piece is a tribute to that corner of film criticism that they call subtextual film criticism.
Sonchiriya is an entire mood within a movie, feels Sukanya Verma.