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MUMBAI: Aamir Khan made his debut in Bollywood (with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak in 1988) at a time when actors doing 12-15 movies simultaneously was an established norm. Mithun Chakraborty and Govinda featured in 17 and 14 movies respectively in 1989. Clearly, the focus was more on quantity than quality. Moreover, most of these movies […]

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we revisit 5 most powerful female character depictions in Bollywood movies since 2000:1) Reshma/Silk (The Dirty Picture): A girl from a small village cocks a snook at society and the film industry to live her life on her own terms. Fiery, rebellious and quick-witted, she does everything that it […]

Last week’s release ‘Jhund’ has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster despite glowing reviews and critical acclaim. No Amitabh Bachchan movie in the recent past has taken such a tepid opening. The film collected approx Rs 1 crore on Friday and though it saw some growth over the weekend, that was not sufficient. The […]

It is not easy to write about movies or books which bare one’s bottled-up horrors and agony. But then, that is the strength of Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’. It has made me, a displaced Kashmiri Pandit (Hindu), to own it, to call it my story. And that is no small feat.  For the […]

Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ has brought a ray of hope for the film industry battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Alia Bhatt-starrer fetched a terrific initial in Maharashtra, especially in Mumbai city and Pune, due to regional flavour. The opening of the film is good in Delhi city and Rajasthan as well. Due to […]

MUMBAI: Noted music composer Bappi Lahiri, known as ‘Disco King’ of India, passed away at the age of 69 in Mmbai on Wednesday after multiple health issues. “Lahiri had been admitted to the hospital for a month and was discharged on Monday. But his health deteriorated on Tuesday and his family called for a doctor […]

On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, you must bite into these movies – cutting across eras – and explore the divergent shades and flavour of romance. 1) Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959): The movie was reflective of the auteur Guru Dutt’s personal travails. The story revolves around a celebrated movie director whose life goes off the […]

Lata Mangeshkar, born Hema Mangeshkar had been given several honorifics –  Nightingale of India, Queen of Melody, and so on, all of them good as descriptions go but none that truly described her. She was phenomenal. Losing her father when she was only thirteen, in 1942, the burden of providing for her three siblings and […]

India’s legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, 92, passed away on Sunday in Mumbai, leaving behind an endless trail of soulful melodies that brought billions of countrymen, in times of peace, joy, tragedies, triumphs and celebrations, together while turning a billion of her worldwide fans speechless. Widely regarded as the greatest playback singer in the annals of […]

NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Monday deposed before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the Panama Papers to record her statement for stashing money outside India. According to ED officials, Bachan, who is the daughter-in-law of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, arrived at the financial probe agency office at south Delhi’s Khan […]