'This was a film, a story that had never been told before.'
'You have to fight your own battles and I fought mine.'
This isn't a hatchet job, and my excuse for the exercise is my feeling that when you invert some of the clichés mentioned here, you might just arrive at the portals of genuine movie-making energy, says Sreehari Nair.
Charlie Chopra and the Mystery of Solang Valley is fun in parts, discovers Deepa Gahlot.
'No small artistic film can even hope to win, except, maybe, as random tokenism,' asserts Deepa Gahlot.
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan is a light glimpse into healthy young lives ready to soar in their own sweet skin, applauds Sukanya Verma.
Alia Bhatt won hearts when she wore her wedding sari at the 69th National Film Awards at the Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi. The ivory embroidered drape was designed by Sabyasachi Mukherjee.
Was descending into the telling of only Diana's tale in four long, slightly-draggy soap-opera-ish episodes of the last season the original premise of The Crown? asks Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
'Just the other day I went to a coffee shop and there were three people asked me, "Are you Dr Dia?"'
'Find a name that changes the words honor killing and hopefully it includes the word murder.' 'If you use the words, you are trying to justify the murders.'
Set to tune by celebrated music composer A R Rahman, Jai Ho received an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, and also won in the category of 'Best Song Written for a Motion Picture' at the 52nd Grammy Awards in 2010.
Sukanya Verma remembers the Boss in 30 of his underrated, overlooked gems in Hindi film music.
'If you look at my work, you would probably like my songs in other films more than Baahubali or RRR.'
'Many people pointed fingers at me.' 'They would ask, "Why did you sing such a song? Why did you do this 'double-meaning' song?"' 'My mother also asked, "Yeh kya gaaya?"'
The Tamil film industry won't forget Vijayakanth's large-heartedness, how he took care of fellow industry persons, male or female, rich or poor, young or old...recalls N Sathiya Moorthy. How he sent money quietly for the family of a stunt artiste to meet his funeral expenses, how he always ensured that all female co-stars, including junior artistes, had secure accommodation on outdoor shoots, and how he would always the first to rush help if anyone from the fraternity was in distress.
'Our research shows that 60 per cent of the growth and interest in anime will come from India for the next few years.'
It was a year of so many contradictions and contrasts that it became dangerous to talk about movies, people lost their heads discussing Friday releases, psychiatrists began dabbling in film criticism, and film critics turned into psychiatrists, says Sreehari Nair.
Singer Hariharan worked quite a few times with santoor player Shiv Kumar Sharma, who passed into the ages on May 10, and flautist Hari Prasad Chaurasia.
In Khufiya, a mother's journey, a lover's vendetta and a country's mission, skewed patriotism and moral disengagement coalesce and highlight the nature of the spying business, notes Sukanya Verma.
'We buried her yesterday.' 'There were so many bodies, they could not fit in the hospital anymore, so they put them in an army base nearby.'
The SKG style book is as lively and natural as she.
After a dry, dreadful, spell of darkness and desolation, it looks like Bollywood love stories are ready to rock the silver screen again.
'I wish you were here to see for yourself what Mughal-e-Azam means to Indians in America.'
If Trial Period was not such a slight piece of film-making, it would have some problematic messaging, observes Deepa Gahlot.
'Towards the late '60s and early '70s, it was a given that if it was Shankar-Jaikishan, it had to be Sharda for Shankar.'
The Archies cast of Bollywood's future stars -- Amitabh Bachchan's grandson Agastya Nanda, Shah Rukh Khan's daughter Suhana and Boney Kapoor's daughter Khushi -- were spotted at Mumbai airport to catch a flight to Brazil.
Anupam Kher celebrated his friend Satish Kaushik's 67th birth anniversary on April 14 by hosting a musical night, and getting Kaushik's friends to share their memories about him.
'We can't belong to anyone and we want to belong to everyone.'
'I am grateful that this film has happened, it makes me so proud of the country and of the Indian Army.' Brandy Batliwala, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw's eldest grandchild, on the man behind the hero.
"Very few people know that Aamir didn't like the way the song Aati Kya Khandala was shot. He scrapped the song's first shooting and they had to re-shoot the song and this time it was mind blowing."
Dinesh Raheja doffs his hat to the movie legend, who will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award this year.
With an endless number of star kid debuts in the offing, we thought of looking at how this decade's brigade compares to their mums, dads, uncles or siblings.
The official list of contestants is not out yet, but Namrata Thakker digs out some names that are in contention.
Sonam-Anand celebrate anniversary...Deepika misses Irrfan...Soha gets ready for Mother's Day.
The best of the glitz from the HT India's Most Stylish Awards 2023.
An evening celebrating the best of what medicine has to offer.
None of R D Burman's collaborations was as rewarding and resplendent as with Gulzar, who turns 89 today, August 18, 2023, says Subhash K Jha.
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