Latest Interviews with Bollywood Stars, Directors & Producers

From a game to a graphic book to a 12-city tour, Saif Ali Khan is using every possible marketing tool to promote his newest production “Agent Vinod”. The actor-producer says marketing is expensive but vital to a film’s success. “We are marketing the film in various ways. It is expensive and a completely different area [...]

By his own admission, John Abraham is a changed man. He is talking more, dancing more and is certainly more visible than ever before. With a slate of films lined up in the New Year, Bollywood’s quintessential handsome hunk hopes to find “inspired living”. “I think I have let myself go. I have opened up [...]

Meeting small-town India on Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC), the hugely popular game show, has left him with a sense of inadequacy – of not being able to do enough for people – but it has also been exceptionally rewarding, says Amitabh Bachchan, who confirms that he will host the sixth season of the TV programme [...]

He is a hardcore commercial actor and, as a producer too, he has produced potboilers, but Akshay Kumar says given a chance he would love to experiment. He also reveals that he will always be a ‘desi’ boy, be it preferring Hindi to English or eating paranthas at home. “I want to produce commercial films. [...]

The new wave of realistic cinema shouldn’t undermine the “Bollywood stamp of melodramas”, says Sanjay Leela Bhansali, the unapologetic maker of opulent, over the top movies like “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam”, “Devdas” and “Saawariya”. “I feel that every filmmaker is in a great mood right now! There’s a new wave, a new dimension in [...]

Over five decades in the film industry and still going strong. Dharmendra has just had a new release but admits to being media shy and is clearly uncomfortable in the movie world of today where good films suffer because they are not promoted and where everything is commodified. When celebrities are looking for extra media [...]

Friendship is at the core of his latest production “My Friend Pinto”, but acclaimed filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who has had his share of differences with celebrities like Salman Khan and Farah Khan, says it is one of the most difficult relationships to sustain in the Hindi film industry. “Friendship in Bollywood…it’s difficult! Difficult because [...]

Amitabh Bachchan, who turned 69 Tuesday and is the busiest entertainer in the country, says there are still many things that cross his mind which he feels he should be doing. “There are many things that cross my mind which I feel I should also be doing. Someday perhaps I shall find time for them [...]

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is diversifying. From larger than life films and emotional tales, he is treading a new path with projects like “Rowdy Rathore” and “My Friend Pinto” to keep pace with Bollywood’s new and young thinkers who he says are bringing new ideologies to cinema. “I want to do a lot more things. I [...]

Here’s one man who is not in love with Hindi films and its jhatkas. But Canadian Russell Peters, who is of Anglo-Indian origin and has been an international standup comedian for 23 years, says the confluence of Bollywood and Hollywood must grow. Ontario-native Peters, who has worked in Akshay Kumar’s Indo-Canadian venture “Breakaway”, was here [...]