'My life was becoming very same-same. It was like a flat line. I have worked for 12 years and I survived in the big bad world of entertainment!'

'Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam films are rooted in their culture.''Hindi films are not rooted.''English-speaking people are making Hindi films.'

'I haven't learnt singing professionally, but Indian Idol is my dream.'

'I am a very poor man. My family has nothing to eat sometimes.'

Amitabh Bachchan, surprisingly, feels a sense 'dar' as to how he will conduct himself on KBC.

'I was very young when I had come to audition for Indian Idol. I wasn't taken because of my age.'

'I never thought I would come to Indian Idol or any other singing competition.'

Bunny gave the audience at the India Day Parade a riff on his memorable line from Pushpa, to thunderous applause of course.

Ankita Singh has always dreamt of a career in singing, but her family was against it.

On Lata Mangeshkar's birthday, Prachita Baban Patil sings for the legend.

'This novel, even after 1,000 years, is still relevant.''The politics and psychology is still relevant.''It is as contemporary as you can get.'

Salman Khan and Chiranjeevi were a delight to watch at the trailer launch of their film Godfather in Mumbai.

The stars Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar sighted over the weekend.

His fans speak.

Fans thronged outside Shah Rukh Khan's home Mannat on his birthday on November 2, and the superstar indulged them by stepping out on to his balcony and waving out to them.

'Mere father ki khubiyaan woh lekar chale gaye, ab mein apne khubiyaan explore karoonga.'

Assam's Gunjan Sinha, 8, won the 10th edition of the dance show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and she couldn't quite control her excitement.

'If the Holocaust was right, then the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits is also right.'

Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com captures some interesting answers from the stars at the trailer launch of Tu Jhoothi Main Makkar.

On January 23, Athiya Shetty and K L Rahul wed at Jahaan, her parents Mana and Suniel Shetty's beautiful home in Khandala.The bungalow looks like heaven on earth. Don't take our word for it. Take a look.

'I had a very tumultuous relationship with what occurred.'

All eyes are now on his latest movie, Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan.

'The music was so good that I felt that it would be a great way to bring it back to life.'

'My eyes were too small (to convey) expressions. I was too hairy. I did not have a great physique. (In this profession) you just keep on working on your minus points and try to improve yourself as much as you can.'

Vidya doesn't not take the question lightly, and explains her pick with a seriousness.

Akshay Kumar and Urmila Matondkar expressed shock over a May 4 video of two women being paraded naked in strife-hit Manipur and demanded punishment for the perpetrators of the 'horrifying' incident.

'The collective shame and anger needs to be channelled now in a unified voice for just one thing -- swift justice.'

On Tuesday, August 1, 2023, Ayushmann Khurrana and Ananya Panday unveiled the trailer for Dream Girl 2.

'Our endeavour with season two was to be more grand with the weddings and deeper with the characters.''So, it is a more nuanced and layered look at the themes that we did in season one.'

After enjoying his superstar status at the box office, Sunny Deol showed everyone a different side to him at the launch of Dono.

The wedding festivities will be spread over September 23 and 24.

After celebrating the Ganpati festival with her family and friends, Shilpa Shetty said goodbye to the Lord with a lot of fanfare.

'A face like this cannot go wrong,' Salman Khan endorses Punjabi actor Gippy Grewal at the trailer launch of the latter's new film, Maujaan Hi Maujaan.

Randeep Hooda and Lin Laisharm hosted a wedding reception in Mumbai, and invited their friends from the film industry.

As Rajinikanth turned 73 on December 12, fans gathered outside his residence in Chennai to celebrate his birthday.

The actor is as entertaining at press conferences as he is in the movies, and he keeps the proceedings light -- and fun -- and Hitesh Harisinghani/ Rediff.com and Afsar Dayatar/ Rediff.com capture them.

Fans have been queuing up outside Salman Khan's home from Tuesday night to catch a glimpse of the superstar, who celebrates his 58th birthday on December 27.

'Why not make plays more popular, so that people from all corners of society come and watch?'

"I owe it to Veer Savarkar, to his spirit, to his legacy and to his untold story so that I tell it well and it reaches people, and people absorb it and feel what he went through and all the sacrifices that he made, which have been brushed under the carpet."

The Pinkvilla Screen and Style Icons Awards were held in Mumbai, and Bollywood suitably glammed up for the night.

Film folk have a lot to celebrate on social media.

Up close with Rashmika... Sanjana is New York... Disha chills in Thailand...

'Nobody can replace Anil Kapoor either.'

The media asks Shraddha an important question.

'In my earlier films, I played meek, very innocent, kind of roles but Suhana (her character's name in the film) is not like that. She is not an abla naari (damsel in distress) and that was very exciting for me.'

It was a day with a difference for industry icons Salim-Javed, who transformed Hindi cinema in the 1970s with films like Zanjeer, Sholay, Deewar and Don, when their families got together to hail them on stage.

A day after Malaika Arora's father, Anil Mehta allegedly died by suicide by jumping from the sixth floor of his building, Salman Khan visited the family to offer his condolences.

Bollywood seems to have ignored the month of September, with only two Hindi releases coming up in theatres. But cine-goers need not worry, as Hollywood and south cinema makes up for it.

Singham's character is based on Ram, Kareena's based on Sita, Tiger's on Lakshman, Ranveer's on Hanuman, Akshay's on Jatayu and Arjun takes up the Ravan role.

'The whole set was in awe. Those five days of shooting were an unforgettable experience.'