Do you think the audience no longer thinks of the protagonist as the ‘hero’ and everyone else as ‘character actors’ as was the case for decades, or does that still exist? It i...

By 2025, if not earlier, I expect five major titles dominating the world of books. Coming under the category of fiction, they will all be products of the pandemic and its biggest fallout — fear....

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The self-avowedly muscular Narendra Modi government has used the pandemic as a plea to scrap Question Hour for the upcoming Parliament session, depriving the House of its lone device to exercise some ...

Line of the year: Main tenu phir milaangiAmrita Pritam’s poignant poem about the pain of separation in love found its way to Anurag Kashyap’s Manmarziyaan, that was dedicated to Pritam and explor...

'The public’s very smart today. If the content’s good, whether it's a big or small star, they’ll come to see the film. Salman's Sultan did very good business. So they've not lost their stardom, ...

A forward going around a few months ago had Salman Khan crowing, “I delivered the year’s biggest flop — Race 3.” “Oh no,” said the caption with Aamir Khan’s pic. “I laid the biggest eg...

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'Le aa apne teen Khan, yahin khada hoon meri jaan”. This is Shah Rukh Khan’s favourite dialogue, as his character Bauaa Singh from his December biggie Zero, and though SRK was the only Khan presen...

Sushree Mishra, who shot for Shah Rukh Khan’s Zero but the role was later chopped off, is now matching steps with Meezaan Jaffrey in a song in the Sanjay Leela Bhansali-produced Malaal. “I am so e...