'I am done with that genre. When you don't have a filmi background, it's difficult to do what you want to do.' Gurmeet Choudhary looks ahead with Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laddoo Deewana.

Deepika Padukone is ready for the foreign press once again.

Sallu likes his Being Human e-bike.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui gets ready for Babumoshai Bandookbaaz.

Photographers waiting outside the restaurant to shoot the Kundras were pounced upon by the bouncers and beaten black and blue.

Stars go for the loveliest holidays -- exotic locations with a lot of adventure thrown in. We bring you their travels in a special series.

The Kapoor clan gets ready to party!

'Disney is presenting Black Panther as Manoj Muntashir's film.''Such a big studio, a billion dollar film is being released as Manoj Muntashir's film.''It is in the same space of Baahubali, which I wrote.''The film has got a kingdom, kings, treachery... things which are very much up my alley.'

Action and romance in real time, with Tiger-Disha!

Here's what a Rajinikanth movie screening looks like.

It's Badhai Ho time in Bollywood!

Bengaluru's celebs wish the newly-weds.

'Deepika had seen some Simmba rushes.''She doesn't react much to anything in life.''But when the screen went off, she looked at me and said "hot lag raha hai".'

'Just a day before the Pulwama attack happened, one of my songs had released. It's called Baarishein, featuring Atif Aslam. However, it was pulled down the very next day. See, when it comes to standing with the nation, I will. Even when the makers decided to take that song down, I supported them. Atif and I are artists but we cannot be bigger than our nations.'

'If somebody remixes my song Banno 20 years later, why would I feel bad about it?'

The star was bowled over!

Some #BottleCapChallenge stunts are very funny.

'Luck plays an important part.'

It was an emotional moment for Dharmendra when he introduced his grandson Karan Deol to the world.

'I am a huge fan of Prabhas. It was a dream to work with him.'

The third edition of Asian Paints' Where the Heart Is brings us glimpses of Neena Gupta's home.

'My life hasn't changed much, in terms of how I travel and work since I got married. Nick and I are both work-oriented and have a lot of drive and ambition. But two countries are a part of it, so it takes a lot of flights, a lot of beating jet lag, forgetting to eat, not getting enough time to sleep...'

Karan Johar launched the trailer of his new production Good Newwz with the film's cast, Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Diljit Singh and Kiara Advani.

Manish Malhotra's father Suraj Malhotra passed away on November 18, and the designer's friends made sure to rally around him in support.

Watch why Deepika got emotional after watching the trailer of Chhapaak while talking to the press.

"After this film, Aditya (Roy Kapur) and Disha (Patani) are going to be major stars," Anil Kapoor assured at the trailer launch of his new film, Malang.

Ahead of the film's release, the makers of Chhapaak hosted a special screening for their families and colleagues.

Among Bollywood's rising stars is Mannan Shaah, a music composer who has made music for films like the Commando series and Namaste England.

Among Bollywood's most popular actors, Anupam Kher has fans all over the world. But he's one of the few celebs who reaches out to them, and posts interesting videos of his interactions with them.

Besides giving us a peek into their lives through pictures on social media, Bollywood shares the cutest boomerang videos as well.

Quite a few film folk attended a special screening Kabir Khan's Web series The Forgotten Army: Azaadi Ke Liye, which starts streaming on Amazon Prime from January 24.

When director Goldie Behl turned 45 on January 24, his gorgeous wife Sonali Bendre threw a birthday bash for him.

Disha Patani hosted a brunch at an eatery in Bandra, in the north west suburb of Mumbai, on Republic Day for her Malang team.

Jazzy B -- or Jaswinder Singh Bains -- is an Indian-Canadian singer and songwriter.

Bollywood is doing all sorts of things to keep busy during the lockdown.

Rishi Kapoor was cremated at the Chandanwadi crematorium in south Mumbai on Thursday afternoon.

When you experience hurt from those who serve beside you

When I was twenty-three, I left the United States for a scary, exciting job as an international campus minister. I was all nerves with my year of seminary, husband of a year, and life packed into five large suitcases. It was an adventure into the unknown, following God’s call to places I’d only visited briefly. I’d speak a different language, learn new customs, and celebrate new government holidays—all in a bid to be a little-Christ to students at a university in Europe.

I returned at twenty-six, an older, wiser, and more broken woman. The years had not been easy or kind to me. My exterior circumstances in Europe had been easy. I was a campus minister on a cosmopolitan campus with students from 130 different countries. I had running water, plenty of delicious restaurants nearby, friends I liked, and a city I’d fallen in love with. But…

And this is a big but…

I hadn’t been emotionally or spiritually supported during our ministry years. I’d been told I was a liar, that I wasn’t trustworthy, that I was needy and demanding, and that I was trouble. The word had been given to me as an identity marker. I wasn’t making trouble; I was the trouble. And for a woman already uncertain about my welcome and position in ministry, that was devastating. It became a toxic environment that sapped me to nothing. I lost weight. I grew gray hair overnight. I withdrew from friends. I developed an unhealthy relationship with chocolate and books.

In short, I showed some of the signs of an abusive relationship.

And it wasn’t the students. No, they were wonderful. It wasn’t my husband either. He was my lifeline. Unfortunately, it was a fellow team member. We’d been friends ...

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Ministering to children as the fully spiritually aware, intuitive thinkers they are.

Much can happen when we learn to equip and empower the children among us. For one woman in ministry, it’s not so much about children learning from grown-ups, but it’s about grown-ups learning from children. Samantha Trimble, Director of Children’s Ministry at The Creek Covenant Church in Walnut Creek, California is a denominational coach for the Evangelical Covenant Church and ambassador for Faith@Home Ministries International. She has experienced firsthand the benefit of approaching each member of the body of Christ as valuable and vital.

“Children are fresh eyes and hearts,” she states in an interview. “They are born fully capable and spiritually aware, but unsullied by our own ideas of how things ‘should’ or ‘must’ be done. They are intuitive thinkers that can make connections that we linearly-thinking grown-ups would not.”

Trimble equates the capability of children to having “lantern-like focus,” a concept coined by U.C. Berkeley developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik. Soaking in everything of the world around them (seemingly all at once), young minds learn to experiment with how things connect. This is in direct opposition to adults who, with their tendency to exhibit “flashlight focus,” oftentimes miss what kids naturally see because they fixate on a single spot.

I am one of those guilty of fixating on a single spot, but it’s something Trimble never seems to have succumbed to—which made me all the more eager to hear the rest of her story. After all, who doesn’t want to glean a little bit of a childlike, lantern-like focus?

Trimble met Jesus when she was seven years old. Working out her faith in playground friendships ...

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Why it’s especially hard for women to take critique and how to discern what to do with it.

I hate criticism!

Not because I think I’ve arrived.

But because I fear I never will.

There are some personality and family issues at work there, but it also has something to do with the challenge of being a female leader. When I hear criticism, even from well-meaning people, it sounds just like all those voices that told me I shouldn’t or couldn’t do something I felt I should or could do. And in addition to actual faces and words—try as I might, I can remember who communicated those negative messages—there is a gaping void in the place where I might look for positive reinforcement to help me combat the sinking feeling that criticism brings. There are no women I can look to and say, “But I’m just like her, and she could do this, so I’ll do it like her.” There are no moments I can remember when my pastor looked at me and said, “I see something in you. Have you ever considered ministry?” So, the apparatus I use in the rest of my life that helps me filter criticism just isn’t there to help me process it well in my ministry. My problem is not with healthy, helpful criticism. My problem is that the work of discerning whether and how to internalize criticism is exhausting.

It’s been said to me more than once, you’re too sensitive. This is one of those criticisms that, when you try to defend yourself, only serves to affirm the criticism. The meta-level thinking folds in on itself and leaves me crumpled. Yes, I am sensitive (to the input of others and also to the needs of others), but not all of my discomfort with criticism is a result of sensitivity in the way people mean it to be. When a woman is told, “You’re too sensitive,” it can ...

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As hardships come, you have 1 of 3 options.

This was not how things were supposed to work out.

Every night for a year, my husband and I had prayed that God would direct us to the right place in his right timing. Based on our own prayers as well as confirmation from others, it seemed that the “right place” would be a church where Dave could serve as senior pastor, giving him more opportunities to exercise his gifts of preaching and shepherding. Now that we had two little boys, we also desired to be closer to family. We told God that we would go anywhere he led us (and we meant it!), but that we would love to end up somewhere in the southeastern United States, ideally within three hours of Dave’s parents.

We explored options around the country. We prayed, waited, and sought counsel from wise and mature believers. We continued to serve faithfully in our current ministries. We prayed and waited some more.

Twelve months later, our little family made the 1,200-mile journey from Minnesota to our new church in North Carolina—just two and a half hours from our sons’ beloved Nana and Papa—where Dave would serve as lead pastor. We felt God had clearly answered our earnest prayers, as evidenced by all sorts of confirmations that seemed like way more than coincidence. I mean, at the boarding gate for our flight home from our interview weekend, we discovered that our pilot “happened” to be a friend who first came up to Dave a year earlier and said he felt God was preparing my husband for a lead pastoral role!

We were over-the-moon excited. We felt we had come home, and we thought we’d be at that church and in that city for life.

Yet three years in, our dream situation had turned to a nightmare. Our church was slowly dying, our marriage ...

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For nearly two decades, Bezos was adamant that the company should largely stay out of the political limelight and not make a stir in local communities. It also had a bare-bones lobbying operation