“When I used to walk out of the ring, after the shoot, I used to feel like a raped woman. I couldn’t walk straight.” Our country-favourite Salman ‘Bhai’ Khan used this as an explanation for the movie Sultan’s exhausting shooting schedule. Being insensitive about rape victims and trivialising the growing threat of rape culture in […]
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Love is a beautiful feeling. Everything is a bed of roses when you are in love. These heady emotions can quickly turn on their head when your story doesn’t pan out the way you had imagined. A breakup can trigger a roller coaster of emotions leading you to do things (read: social media stalking your
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Priyanka Chopra has shed her usual diplomatic avatar and talked openly about her relationships; in an exclusive interview from New York for the latest issue of Filmfare. She clarified she is not dating her married co-stars from Quantico, the hit American show that she is part of. Dating married men has seemingly become a taboo
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Love just happens. Sometimes even when you will it not to happen in the way you know would morally and socially doom you, it happens anyway. It’s troublesome being ‘the other woman’ in a man’s life who’s married to his wife and has kids. And yet, these South Indian actresses have had some really strange
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Some films in Bollywood treat gay relationships with a sensitivity that has not been noticed earlier. We list the films we find beautiful
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Once when I was a teenager and in my intense romantic phase, I caught an interview with Shashi Kapoor on Doordarshan. I had never thought much about him till then, except as Amitabh Bachchan’s sidekick in my all-time favourite childhood movies. That interview totally changed my perception of him. He was a sincere, honest, thorough
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It’s easier to relate to a movie if it has realistic characters As a viewer, the film-watching experience enhanced if there are characters whom viewers can relate to. Linking to characters and hence to the films becomes difficult for women of a certain age or as commonly known, middle-aged women while watching a Bollywood film.
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Love isn’t as grand as shown in these movies. Read further to underatnd the difference between Love In Movies vs Love in Real Life.
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We all know of Helen Ann Richardson – the first item girl of Bollywood. Helen was a breath of fresh air, challenging all the norms in a time when most of the on-screen the heroines were Sati Savitris; covered from head to toe, constantly enduring suffering, sacrificing and crying. But Helen was the anti-heroine or
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Every generation of cinema has had that one director who understands his audience perfectly. They will touch your heart with their engaging storylines, thought-provoking dialogues and near-perfect direction. We have Imtiaz Ali in our time! Every film he makes is worth watching repeatedly. Socha na tha, Jab we met, Rockstar are few of his many
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