Covid restrictions notwithstanding, the city's creative spirit reflects in the pandal created by the Bandra West Sarvajanik Ganesh Mandal.
'It is not about how one looks, but how they feel. It is about how beautiful we are on the inside.'
The reaction has been swift across the world to Novak Djokovic's visa has been cancelled for a second time by the Australian government.
'In the last seven years or so, many reigning heroes have stopped working with him because no matter how popular a star they are, irrespective of whether they are playing the lead, it eventually becomes an Amitabh Bachchan film!'
'He is the guy you wouldn't want to invite to your parties, and he constantly embarrasses his wife.'
'You have to be very equipped to even want to have children.' 'There are entrance exams for even MBAs ...and this is a life we're talking about.'
'After 10 days, Balki, Sunny Deol and Pooja Bhatt liked what I did, and the tension eased.' 'I started calming down a little bit. but nobody knew that in my head a tandav was going on.'
'JugJugg Jeeyo will touch a lot of lives and a lot of hearts.'
Theek nahi lagta, a song written by Lata Mangeshkar's favourite lyricist Gulzar, was believed to have been lost.
'With doctors going up against a seemingly invincible enemy, often at immense risk to their lives, the myths reveal an interesting relationship between the men of medicine and the rest of humankind,' notes Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Adityanath on the occasion praised the Centre's 'Agnipath' scheme and highlighted its benefits.
'During the climactic match, I heard people sobbing.' 'I've not had this experience before, not even in Bajrangi Bhaijaan.'
'I want to keep experimenting.' 'That's what I have done all my life, in my entire career.'
The Ramayan offers important life lessons.
While some are raising questions over the company's ability to regain its position as the sector bellwether, others believe problems at the company may be "much bigger than anticipated".
Rizwan had been suffering from intermittent fever, persistent cough, and chest tightness for 3-5 days before being hospitalised.
In an order dismissing the bail plea of a man accused of cow slaughter, Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav of the Allahabad High Court also said that 'Panchgavya' prepared using cow's milk, curd, ghee, urine and dung helps in treating several incurable diseases.
'People say my father was scared of Kishore Kumar. That is untrue. There are so many songs that my father told the composers to let some other singer sing because they too are good.'
'You become a critic because the job entails watching a 100 films a year, out of which there will be five or six good films.' 'It's really a glutton for punishment, but you're also optimistic and want to see exciting things.'
'People sometimes ridiculed him for the way he looked or dressed.' 'Sometimes they ran down his music.' 'But I have never heard him say one bad word about anyone.'
Varsha Bhosle salutes that effervescent icon of Indian cinema, Dev Anand.
'Aurangzeb, who had destroyed the Hindu temples of Mathura and Kashi and many others in the north, was a very different ruler when he came to Maharashtra.' 'He did not touch a single temple in Maharashtra.' 'It was possibly the greatest triumph of Shivaji's statesmanship,' notes Colonel Anil A Athale (retd), the well known military historian.
'Some of us are overweight, some underweight, some too tall, some too short, some too fair, some too dark, but that's no reason to get bogged down by society's rules about what fits.'
Bollywood celebrates their children with adorable pictures and lovely words on Children's Day.
As boxer Nikhat Zareen prepares to head to her first World Championships in the 51 kg category, she feels she has plenty in her armoury to go the distance.
'Would you want to bring kids into a world that could run out of drinking water before they reach adulthood?'
'You might hate him, but it will be an honest portrayal.'
'The real India lives in the villages where everyone is trying to improve the other.'
Essentially a message movie, Jayeshbhai Jordaar masks its horror in humour to play out like an on-the-run road trip, observes Sukanya Verma.
Tamil Nadu's Praveen Chitravel produced the third longest-ever jump by an Indian with a stunning effort of 17.18m to clinch gold in the triple jump and qualify for the World Championships
The opening ceremony has been created by British screenwriter Steven Knight, who had produced the famous crime drama 'Peaky Blinders'.
'Never had I imagined even in my wildest dreams that this 18-year-journey through 80 films would bring me so much love, respect and appreciation.' 'I never thought I would become such a charchit abhineta (popular actor).'
Describing Sachin Tendulkar as his role model, India ODI captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has said that iconic batsman's humility and passion for the game was an inspiration for him and others.
The tribal leader, India's youngest president at 64 and the first to be born after Independence, took oath of office in the name of god to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law'.
Friendships are not merely severed, but built over scuffles. And just about anything can stir things up -- a long-standing feud, a pointless stare, a disrupted moral stance, a fist that ricochets off a face and smacks another face in the near vicinity, observes Sreehari Nair.
Bumrah said he doesn't go around looking for 'post' but will 'never shy away' from the responsibility of leading a team if given
'His last journey was like putting out the lamps one by one in a temple at night.' 'It was like the soul slowly walking away from the body; it was so pure and peaceful...'
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'Live a simple lifestyle where you eat well, sleep on time and take care of your body.'
'I always feel I speak best through my silences.'
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