'The people of Jharkhand know that Modi is not going to become chief minister, so why should they vote for the BJP?'
Indian showbiz's latest star on where he goes from here.
'BJP takes Lingayat support and later on they throw them out, ditch them and humiliate them.' After months of speculation Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa resigned from the chief minister's post. A powerful Lingayat community leader, Yediyurappa could not even complete his term, owing to the internal politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party. So how does Lingayat community view his exit? Congress working president, Karnataka state and Lingayat leader Eshwar Khandre speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, said, "The community which voted him and felt that they will lead the government are now disenchanted."
'If you make a film for Bihar and UP, Mumbai audiences reject it and vice versa.'
'With the Citizenship Amendment Bill, Hindus from Pakistan can come to India. They have got a way,' says Gurumukh Jagwani who came to India on his honeymoon, loved the country so much that he stayed back and got Indian citizenship.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf gives his reasons for disliking the trailer of the most anticipated mega movie of the year, Baahubali: The Conclusion.
While she slammed the Congress for politics over the Indian Army's surgical strikes, Twitterati did what it does the best -- dig up her old tweets on her new party.
'India's treatment to a member of parliament of Afghanistan was not good and I am very upset about this action.'
'Two years ago I told Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi that we have traitors in the Congress.'
'BJP has achieved its aim by making him a regional leader dependent on them.'
Nothing 'accidental' about this movie, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Hamid Nihal Ansari, a software engineer from Mumbai, returned to India in December 2018 after spending six years in a Pakistani jail for illegally entering the neighbouring country from Afghanistan, reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. He was arrested in 2012 and lodged at Peshawar jail after Pakistan had slapped espionage charges against him. The decision to release him was on account of relentless pressure from New Delhi and Sushma Swaraj, who was the external affairs minister and was personally monitoring the case. Speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, Ansari recalls the time he spent with her and says that if it wasn't for her efforts, he would still be rotting away in a Pakistani cell.
The Emperor of Bollywood Romance tries to play a lecher for the first time in his career.
'One man went berserk or rogue that does not mean the Mumbai police should be ashamed.'
'Had these three farm laws existed it would have become a huge election issue.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com finds out why Sacred Games has run into trouble.
'There was a revolt. They were fighting for their rights.' 'They lost their rights after colonial forest policies came into place.' 'These freedom fighters were trying to reassert those rights.'
When I approached Shah Rukh, my palms were sweaty. I didn't know what to say to him. But there is\n\nalways a first time.
Now, let's wait for the movie, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Government intervention in agricultural trade is a problem for farmers.'
'It will take a long time for people's memory to be misled by a prime minister who is so arrogant and who refuses to acknowledge his own faults.'
Journalist Prashant Kanojia was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police on August 18 for a retweet and has been in custody ever since.
Bobby Deol talks about his next film, Ab Tumhare
'Cultural nationalism or the victim card that you play is okay when people are well fed.' 'But if you are not well fed, then it puts a question mark (on your leadership).'
No one can make the audience laugh like Govinda, raves Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The trailer is so gripping that you know something interesting is bound to happen, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Ghulam Nabi Azad and Kapil Sibal are the two people who have been marked and punished'
'When the Taliban took over there was a genuine fear that they will harm me, but right now that fear is not there.'
... Why care for the truth when the legend so interesting, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'This issue is related to national security because they were compromising the entire capital markets's core infrastructure by leaking confidential information.' 'What would have happened if the servers had come down?' 'Or some confidential information leaked to terrorists who could have knocked out our capital market?'
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