Comedy star Kapil Sharma says that before coming to Mumbai, he tried to get a job in the police, Border Security Force (BSF), etc like any other lower middle class boy but he did not succeed.
Ahead of her film, Zwigato’s release, Nandita talks about her journey as an actor-director and, of course, Kapil Sharma.
The journalists shown on Bollywood screen have been stereotypical -- cigar-chomping editors in their Saville Rows or the bechara garib patrakar in crumpled khadi kurtas destined to be bumped off in the early reels. Yami’s Vidhi Sahani in Lost is neither.
The kind of success ‘RRR’ and its songs have found outside the subcontinent had always eluded India’s mainstream film music in the past. That should be a reason enough for all of us to set our feet tapping to the heady beats of ‘Naatu Naatu’ one more time.
Family connection can help a star kid reach the silver screen, but his fate is ultimately decided by the audience. It does not matter which dynasty they come from.
Bollywood’s fate in 2022 underlines the fact that none of the big stars can get away with bad movies anymore. Hope the film industry has learnt this lesson that the audiences sought to convey to it in unambiguous manner last year.
Shah Rukh Khan has nurtured and nourished Bollywood seamlessly with his charisma and star power all through the past three decades but will it work this time with ‘Pathaan’?
Amid ‘The Kashmir Files’ row din, everything else was forgotten about IFFI’s valiant bid to give a booster shot to world cinema in the post-pandemic times and felicitate the great talents.
Business beyond cinema was neither Amitabh Bachchan’s cup of tea, nor of any of his contemporaries or predecessors in the past. But the new generation does not want to commit the same mistakes.
Social media may be the quickest way to gain or regain stardom today, but Bollywood stars fiercely protected their privacy in the bygone era for one reason or the other.
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