Aan Tiwari honoured with Best Child Actor award for Baal ShivTags
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Throwback Talk: When Pandit Jasraj opened up life’s learning and legacy
Last year, when he turned 89, legendary classical vocalist and Padma Vibhushan recipient Pandit Jasraj had opened in an IANS interview about his life, learning and legacy among other things. We bring you excerpts from the conversation.
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Asha Bhosle on Pandit Jasraj: I have lost a big brother
Legendary singer Asha Bhosle is saddened by the demise of the iconic Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj, who passed away at the age of 90 in the US on Monday.
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Checklist: Sanjay Dutt's upcoming films and their status
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has been diagnosed with lung cancer, and the actor recently took to social media to announce a break from work for medical treatment.
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Dev Patel: My love affair with India started with ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
As India celebrates its 74th Independence Day on Saturday, Slumdog Millionaire fame Dev Patel recalled how his affair with the country began while shooting for the film here.
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Review: Dangerous: Too amateurish to thrill
Vikram Bhatt products bear a trademark. The genre is normally thriller. The crime factor is juxtaposed onto inevitable sexual tension between the hero and the heroine. Music plays a big role. Content and execution often reveal, uh, foreign inspiration.
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TV actors on favouritism in industry: Talent will triumph
It has been two months since Sushant Singh Rajput passed away, and his death has sparked a debate about nepotism and favouritism in showbiz. Weighing in on it are TV actors like Donal Bisht, who says that after an incident of favouritism, she stopped givi
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Bollywood’s new patriotism looks at achievers who made the nation proud
There was a time when patriotism in Bollywood generally meant war drama packed with the emotions of glory and valour, and the loud assertion of nationalism that often bordered on jingoism. The trend seems to be changing.
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Review: Khuda Haafiz: Old-school action drama
This time, Vidyut Jammwal keeps his shirt on for most parts. He is not much in the mood to fight either -- well, not at least to unleash the familiar choreographed martial arts blitz.
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TV stars on freedom in the time of lockdown and social distancing
Independence Day this year is certainly unlike any ever, since 1947. For the first time, people will not gather in crowds to raise the Tricolour together or sing the National Anthem in chorus.
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Lockdown suicides call for attention on film, TV world’s mental health
Preksha Mehta, Manmeet Grewal, Anupama Pathak and Sameer Sharma. These names share two things in common. All of them are actors by profession, and all of them unfortunately committed suicide during the lockdown. The crisis and uncertainty that the Covid-i
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Review: World On Fire: Of war and ordinary lives
World War drama for the screen always has a quaint allure. It has an element of predictability, too.
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Aasif Mandvi: My parents were disappointed that their son was good at being a clown
Indian-origin American actor Aasif Mandvi played out various stereotypes while exploring a career in Hollywood because he had just two options -- grab the opportunity or starve. Now, the Indian-Amercian star is happy that these things are being challenged
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Gunjan Saxena: I had support of fellow officers, supervisors, commanding officers at IAF
Just a day after the Indian Air Force (IAF) raised objection over the presentation of gender bias in the film, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl, former IAF pilot Gunjan Saxena, on whose life the film is based, has opened up about her experience at the Air F
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Manoj Muntashir : Rahat Indori was a star who enlightened us (FIRST PERSON)
(Many moons ago the iconic poet and lyricist Rahat Indori told a budding, 16-year-old poet to work hard because he saw potential in the boy. The teenager, now the renowned poet-lyricist Manoj Muntashir, remembers his idol Indori, who passed away on August
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Review: Gunjan Saxena: Set-piece biopic manages to regale
Gunjan Saxena's life unfolds as a set-piece biopic, played out to a pattern.
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Dark side of the dazzle and fame
Whether Sushant Singh Rajput ended his life or was killed is a raging question right now, but this much seems obvious that he was going through a phase of intense mental and psychological pressure in his last days. The situation again spotlights the dark
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Vidya Balan: I find it easier to follow my heart
Vidya Balan does not like to follow norms. She finds it easier to follow her heart. The actress says doing something that is not natural to you can be a painful process, which she realised a few years ago.
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Locked and hitched: Star couples who got married amid lockdown
For many stars, the new normal has been all about new beginnings. Despite lockdown, several among the gitterati have tied the knot in an intimate affair.
