'Representing our country is a wonderful honour and a mighty task that we are all looking forward to.'

'Romance not in a physical manner maybe, but, you know, where you are just sharing dialogues and looking at each other and conversations are happening.'

'My trajectory right now is five steps forward, two steps backwards.'

'Our analysis of success, like failure, is so reductive and so one dimensional that we don't look at the bigger picture.'

'At one time, I felt being a mother was the ultimate experience, a woman was not complete without it.''Now I feel it's not the be all and end all. Motherhood is a part of a jigsaw puzzle; life is the real big picture.'

'The war ended in 2009 and I believe the new generation of Tamils don't know what was going on there.''I felt it was my duty to tell our story.''Since 2009, it seems like we are sleeping.'

'She was lying there and I mustered up enough guts to lay next to her and hold her tight.''And she said, "Oh my, Girish, isn't he supposed to be nervous?"''Making light of the situation, Girish said, "No, he's been practicing with a pillow the whole day".'

'Rekha and my wife were close friends, and my so-called cold war with Rekha was causing difficulties in my wife's friendship with her.''She patched us up for her own selfish reason.'

When you are in love, you are preoccupied just with that.''Nothing else registers. It's like being drugged.'

Amitabh Bachchan: 'Success didn't affect me at all.'Rajesh Khanna: 'I felt next to God!'

'It must have been the nervous excitement of shooting with THE Amitabh Bachchan. I had kept tossing and turning all night. The next morning, I promptly fainted in my choreographer Farah Khan's arms. When I came round, I heard Amitji saying, 'Please don't faint. I promise I'll dance well.''

Rajesh Khanna: 'When I saw Namak Haram at a trial at Liberty cinema, I knew my time was up.'I told Hrishida, "Here is the superstar of tomorrow".'

'When a child is born, he is born crying, and he grows up looking for laughter.''So comedy films should be made more, as people want to watch comedy films.'

'I don't think I ever lost the confidence as an actor.'

'I made it very clear even at the casting process that there was going to be a lot of nudity.''And I wanted to be sure that it would be done with ease.'

'The work of a film-maker is going out and making films.''And if you are in prison for 15 years, you can't make films.'

'...be it a comedy, thriller or a love story.''The bhindi costs Rs 30 per kilo, but the price of potato remains unchanged.'

'She was my only choice to play Sonbai. The moment she read the script, she slipped into character.'

'I don't know of any happy moment in my life which has helped me to grow, whereas pain has always been a means to evolve.'

'I have no family (in the industry), no network, no mentor.''Still, I'm consistently working since 20 years and now I have a National Award.''It may take time, but if you're consistently at it, nothing can stop you.'

'There are some things I may not be comfortable about. Explicit things and all that.'

'I've never done anything cliche and I've never got anything cliche.'

'Whenever people say to me that all my work looks unique, I say to them originality is the art of concealing your source.''You can't see the sources that I take from because usually, they are Indian.''But then Indians don't find my work Indian.'

'I'm happy piggybacking on his stardom.'

For the historical book, the author travelled widely across Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka

The actor will be seen in upcoming releases Kapp and Kunjammini’s Hospital

Malayalam director Vinayan’s latest film is a celebration of the life of social reformer Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker

Kannada actor Kishore hopes the response to ‘Kantara’ will encourage Kannada filmmakers to explore new content in different ways

Kantara’s OTT release on Amazon Prime Video leaves viewers disappointed after makers replace ‘Varaha Roopam’ song following court order in case filed by Kerala band Thaikkudam Bridge

Aanu, starring Sajitha Madathil and Namitha Pramod, will be screened at the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala

In its complaint lodged before the Yeshwantpur police, MRT Music had alleged that popular songs and audio clips of the film were illegally used to promote Mr. Gandhi as hero and a mass leader

The organisation, Poovulagin Nanbargal, uses the birth dates and birth places of popular Tamil actors to highlight how climate change, such as increasing hot days, has affected the State over the decades

‘Mahadev Ka Gorakhpur’, starring Ravi Kishan in the lead, is based around the Aghori sadhus and will be dubbed in multiple languages

While “RRR” finds mention in the BAFTA longlist for a ‘film not in English language’ category, “All That Breathes” is also vying for a spot in the top five of the documentary category.

The two biggest box office successes of 2022 - “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Top Gun: Maverick” - were shut out.

Sundeep Kishan reinvents himself in this moody period gangster drama by director Ranjit Jeyakodi that has a lot going for it, yet falls short of finding its strong voice

Set in the Post-Independence era, the film explores how the looks at the restrictions that bind individual’s freedom is bound by social restrictions

Director Srikanth Odela’s Telugu film ‘Dasara’, starring Nani and Keerthy Suresh, is set in the vicinity of coal mines in rural Telangana

Poornima Indrajith effortlessly transforms for the role of a lifetime in Rajeev Ravi’s opus Thuramukham

Upendra’s gangster drama is similar to ‘KGF’ in more than just the looks, flavour, and genre; it’s a rip-off loaded with empty shells of everything that made Prashanth Neel’s films enjoyable

Director Gunasekhar and producer Neelima Guna on how they tried to make ‘Shaakuntalam’ appeal to a contemporary audience

Cinematographer Sathyan Sooryan gets into the details of filming the Telugu film ‘Dasara’, from the metaphorical lighting for characters played by Nani, Keerthy Suresh and Deekshith Shetty to the extensive night portions

As the Telugu film ‘Balagam’ wins hearts and international awards, director Venu Yeldandi talks about how he wanted the film to reflect native culture and relationships in Sircilla, Telangana

Samantha Ruth Prabhu opens up on being all grace and poise for ‘Shaakuntalam’ to being covered in bruises while filming action sequences for ‘Citadel’

Teja Kakumanu discusses his chequered journey in cinema as he makes his directorial debut with the Telugu comedy web series ‘Save the Tigers’, soon to stream on Disney+ Hotstar

Sai Dharam Tej and Samyuktha Menon’s Telugu supernatural thriller ‘Virupaksha’ delivers the thrills, aided by deft storytelling and an able technical team

Shriya Saran and Sharman Joshi’s Telugu-Hindi film ‘Music School’ directed by Paparao Biyyala will recreate three iconic songs from ‘The Sound of Music’

TheWriter of two of the best period dramas in the recent history of Malayalam cinema, Gopan Chidambaram talks speaks about how Thuramukham, a play written by his father in 1968, was adapted to the screen and why he often gravitates towards historical tales

Actor Bellamkonda Sreenivas talks about his debut in Hindi cinema with the redux of Rajamouli-Prabhas blockbuster ‘Chatrapathi’

The screenings at two other multiplexes in Kochi were cancelled