All this and more in Subhash K Jha's Bollywood Buzz.
Sukanya Verma offers some amazing opening scenes in Hindi films that fuels an excitement for what happens next.
Missing persons posters featuring Rahul Gandhi's image pop up in Amethi.
'I want my fans to remember me as the Sadhana of Love In Simla, Mere Mehboob, Woh Kaun Thi and Arzoo,' the Bollywood legend, who passed into the ages on Christmas Day, told Dinesh Raheja.
Sukanya Verma looks at Bollywood's various terrace moments.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
'There was no time to do all the normal things that children do as they grow up.' 'One day, I was playing with dolls.' 'The next day, I was on a train looking for opportunities to sing at various recording studios.'
'Her death has left a small hole in me. That little space that her songs and her screen image always filled in me. She had not worked in films for years, but somehow I always sensed she was there, somewhere in Bombay where movie magic is made.'
Things are off to a good start when a lead movie character appears for the first time against strategic music or swaggering drama and the audience bursts into wholehearted whistles and applause.
If these instances are any indication, stories featuring twins have seldom failed at the box office. But will Bipasha manage to cash in on the ageless trend?
Looking at the Hindi film heroine at her thrilling best.
Kangana Ranaut's guts, Amitabh Bachchan's venomous threat and dark TV serials occupied Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week.
Dinesh Raheja salutes the legend's versatility in her heyday.
The best analysis of politics does not come out of air conditioned newsrooms, but from the voices on India's streets. Rakesh Kumar Singhal -- once an army jawan, then an ONGC employee, then a tea shopwallah -- reveals why he left the Congress for Modi.
'Sci-fi is a very expensive genre; I need to become a much bigger star for people to invest that kind of money in me.' 1920 London actor Sharman Joshi talks about his favourite genre, and why he won't be doing it anytime soon.
'The BJP should know that simple caste arithmetic may have ceased to follow the basic law of addition.' 'Adding up seemingly distinct vote banks can even cause overall reduction in numbers,' says Sudhir Bisht.
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