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Naved Jafri, of the TV dance show Boogie Woogie fame, shines a flashlight on the life and times of his late father, veteran comedian Jagdeep, on his 83rd birth anniversary today.

The Laal Singh Chaddha star is known for possessing a good nose for storytelling, smart marketing chops and always springing a surprise on his audiences — all the things that might make him useful on video-streaming

All the songs of this 1982 hit suit their setting and are choreographed with aplomb. It helps that in many of them the comic instincts of actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Paintal and Shakti Kapoor shines through, taking Rahul Dev Burman's composition to a madcap level.

The Rajesh Khanna phenomena wouldn't have been possible without the chartbuster music that his films carried. On his 79th birth anniversary today, capturing his stupendous stardom, swift downfall and the mellifluous and melancholic music.

In a nation where Bollywood stars are demigods and cricketers are gods, two of India's most lucrative industries have shared a great artistic relationship that has endured. Ahead of Kabir Khan's 83, here's revisiting this match made in heaven.

Before she became known as Guru Dutt's wife, the great songster of Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Anubhav was a more famous name. Would the world of Bollywood playback have been different if she hadn't died relatively young at 41 in 1972?

Focusing on a lesser-known aspect of his legacy today, we look at Kamal Haasan's dancing genius and how it has illuminated many of his great roles, most spectacularly Sagara Sangamam.

Often more glamorous than the celebs she interviewed on Simi Garewal with Rendezvous, few would believe that the star of movies like Mera Naam Joker and Karz, in fact, had her roots in the Bengali avant-garde classics like Padatik and Aranyer Din Ratri.

Bollywood and its changing mores: The 1950s was a time for nation-building, the '60s was swinging but by the '70s a disillusionment had crept in as captured by the angry young man aka Amitabh Bachchan. And then the economic liberalisation brought in the NRI gloss and today, it's all about how patriotic is our valley.

The acting guru doesn't mince words and is known to harbour strong opinions. Though despite the occasional foot in the mouth, there's a case to be made of Naseeruddin Shah as a voice of reason in the age of empty noise, political correctness or in some cases, golden silences.

Satyajit Ray asked Om Puri to walk gingerly into the priest’s house in Sadgati’s first scene. Puri didn’t know what gingerly meant, so Ray said, "When a dog or a goat enters an unknown house, he enters gingerly." That anthropomorphic instruction acquires an unsettling resonance in the film's climax.

The year 1981 saw six Amitabh Bachchan releases (Barsaat Ki Ek Raat, Naseeb, Silsila, Kaalia, Yaarana and Laawaris). Four out of these were among the year's top grossers.

India at 75: Patriotism or jingoism? A look at why the Indian flag is flying high in today's Bollywood movies, from Uri to Shershaah to Bhuj and looking back at the original Bharat Kumar.

All of 38, Dhanush has notched up a stellar body of work so far. Even more impressively, his recent films have unambiguously addressed issues like land and caste politics, feudalism, exploitation, inequality, injustice and police violence.

The maker of iconic Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool died when he was only 39. Though he made few films and according to many accounts, led a depressed life he continues to intrigue decades after his death.

Jaaved Jaaferi shares his memories of spending time with Dilip Kumar in the 1990s and what makes the Devdas star a benchmark in Hindi cinema. Dilip Kumar passed away on Wednesday at the age of 98.

A year after Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide, the flame of his death remains very much alive. We revisit a number of his films to see what his most popular characters tell us about him.

The Mani Ratnam-Ilaiyaraaja-AR Rahman combo has created a gold-standard repertoire of Tamil-Hindi film soundtracks. As realistic as Ratnam's films are, his songs are the absolute opposite — illogical, grand and dream-like. Presenting a quick guide to his music.

We know him as the ambitious maker behind Bollywood's greatest ode to Indian womanhood (1957's Mother India) and perhaps as the founder of Mumbai's iconic Mehboob Studio. But Mehboob Khan was more than that.

The mounting court cases, string of flops, the ultimate bad boy image — despite the many downs, Salman Khan has rolled on over the decades. If the Salman Khan of early years was a shy charmer, today he's a box-office juggernaut and a demigod of Hindi movie masses. Here's decoding the 'Bhai' myth.

The centenary celebrations of India's greatest filmmaker have begun in earnest. Born on this day in 1921, Satyajit Ray changed cinema with poetic realism and humanist concerns, turning the medium into an art form.

More than a century ago, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre shook the nation and the world. Here's how the firing on unarmed innocents has been shown in films.

Abhishek Bachchan's The Big Bull and its big bucks ambition raise a pertinent question: how does Hindi cinema show wealth and why the rich are always the villain?

The great RX Laxman and Kundan Shah came together to create the well-loved sitcom that looked at an ordinary family and their ordinary situations. Here's taking a trip down the memory lane.