'My director (Lakshya Raj Anand) said, 'John, I don't want anybody in the cinema halls to pick up their phones and get distracted.' 'I want the film to be so fast and different that people instantly get hooked'.'
'While narrating a scene to Amitji, Akshay and Tusshar, they learnt that Aishwarya was not the heroine opposite Akshay as they had presumed.' 'She had a negative role.' 'They were shocked, more so when they learnt that she didn't know this.' '"Shooting will stop midway, she won't do the film", I was warned.'
'It makes no sense at all to leave because I have my whole family with me.' 'My wife and children are citizens here.'
From promoting movies to grabbing a bit, here's a look at what they were up to.
'When she called to ask why I was depressed, my depression flew out of the window.'
Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand.
Rahul Tripathi won the Man of the Match for his efforts and earned a shoutout from KKR Co-owner Shah Rukh Khan as well.
Rajkummar Rao is solid in what we've come to recognise as strictly Ayushmann Khurrana territory, observes Sukanya Verma.
'His Dil deewana in Maine Pyar Kiya came to me at a time when I was thinking of retirement.'
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 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.
If there's even the slightest chance of a laugh, its dummy cast ensures the joke doesn't land, feels Sukanya Verma.
Some fun pictures from the sets of Ishaan Khatter and Ananya Panday's new film!
Will Varun Dhawan's Coolie No 1 be a bigger hit than Govinda's hilarious original?
Sporting stars joined the country in mourning the demise of iconic actor Dilip Kumar
'We didn't know where the story was going. But I knew I was telling the story of an extremely lonely journalist.'
When Vicky's latest film Bhoot Part One: The Haunted Ship had a special screening, Katrina made sure to attend.
One could be anywhere -- huddled around a transistor radio at home in the evenings, walking past a neighbour's house, or waiting at a bus stop and Lata Mangeshkar's voice would reach us. Aseem Chhabra pays rich tribute to The Legend.
'Gulzarsaab's words are lucid and singing them is like painting a picture.'
Bigg Boss 15 is going to be one hell of a roller coaster ride.
At the moment, there appears to be no alternative political narrative to the one lying buried under the debris of havoc caused on this front by the fallout of 'August 5, 2019', asserts Mohammad Sayeed Malik, the distinguished commentator on Kashmir affairs.
'We are lucky to have found each other and to have grown and been together for so many years.'
'No matter how big the name, no one lives forever; like medicines, we come with an expiry date.' 'But, in the short time that we have, we try to make something that will stay on long after we are gone.'
'He was a man of immense conviction.' 'Whenever I'd question him, he would say, "Leave aside your logic-wogic. Just do what I tell you".' '"Just trust me. It will work".'
'I never behaved like a star. So why would anyone behave like a star with me?'
Every year in Bollywood brings its share of good and bad. 2019 did too. Sukanya Verma lists what we learned.
After screening his film for Akshay Kumar, Ashutosh Gowariker hosted two more for the cast and their families the next day.
Joginder Tuteja picks the stunning new actresses on the rise.
'For many years, we didn't speak. But then family is family. We made up.'
Age at one level is over-rated, feels Harbhajan Singh, the veteran of 103 Tests and 236 ODIs.
The actor has posted a video of him doing dangerous action during the making of Sooryavanshi.
Those in love with kabristan used to spend public money there, those who love religion and culture are spending the money on their uplift and upgrade, he said
'There were lots of people who told me not to go for a Gujarati serial after Scam.' 'But I went with my gut feeling.'
"It's a pity that because there are no big names attached to it, Sony Liv did not go all out to promote this dark and gripping series, the way they did with a Scam 1992. They should have made it track more to ensure it reached more people."
