'We, the Mangeshkar family, don't wish to be drawn into this controversy and this controversy should end and politics on Didi's name must be stopped.'

'This has been both challenging and inspiring for me.'

'Am I a star or an actor?' Prabhas asks his Radhe Shyam Director, and Afsar Dayatar/ Rediff.com gets the answer.

In the fifth season of Asian Paints' Where the Heart Is, we take you inside Aditi Rao Hydari's home.

When Akshay Kumar held a press conference after over two years, here's what happened.

'I haven't tried Tinder yet because itne saare swipe right ko main kaise handle karoonga?'

Glimpses of the stars Pradeep Bandekar glimpsed over the weekend.

In the fifth season of Asian Paints' Where the Heart Is, we take you inside Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi's home.

Inspired by true incidents, Runway 34 revolves around Captain Vikrant Khanna, played by Ajay Devgn, whose flight takes a mysterious course after take-off from an international destination.

Please click on the images for glimpses of the stars Pradeep Bandekar glimpsed on Monday.

'India has superheros too.''They are super soldiers who don't wear their underwear outside their pants.'

Please click on the images for glimpses of the stars Pradeep Bandekar sighted on Thursday.

Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com brings us moments from the film's music launch.

Nora in casuals... Kriti at the airport... Sonali, Tiger shoot...

Akshay Kumar launched the trailer of his new period film Prithviraj with a lot of fanfare.

Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com brings us scenes from the Jug Jugg Jeeyo trailer launch.

'Every time I make a film, I hope it will last at least 10 years. Otherwise, I have made a bad product.'

One KK's tribute to another.

The duo promote their film JugJugg Jeeyo.

'We don't take mental illness seriously in our country, and we don't even talk about it. We don't realise even when we are having a panic attack,' Rajkummar Rao says, at the trailer launch of his new film, Hit: The First Case.

'One thing I really lack as an actor is angst. I'm not an angry person. I'm a very fun-loving, happy, detached guy.'

'My life was becoming very same-same. It was like a flat line. I have worked for 12 years and I survived in the big bad world of entertainment!'

For two hours, Javed Ali sang. And his fans went crazy.

Dressed in a blue tee and black track pants, Taapsee Pannu took on the media.

'=I love telling stories, and I love telling them to huger audiences and big auditoriums.;'And what better auditorium than India?'

Rani at the SiddhiVinayak temple... Vicky watches Shamshera... Ananya at yoga class...

Alia meets Bhansali... Tara promotes Ek Villain Returns... Urvashi glams up...

'Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam films are rooted in their culture.''Hindi films are not rooted.''English-speaking people are making Hindi films.'

'I haven't learnt singing professionally, but Indian Idol is my dream.'

'I am a very poor man. My family has nothing to eat sometimes.'

Amitabh Bachchan, surprisingly, feels a sense 'dar' as to how he will conduct himself on KBC.

'I was very young when I had come to audition for Indian Idol. I wasn't taken because of my age.'

'I never thought I would come to Indian Idol or any other singing competition.'

Whatever the fate of his movie may be at the box office, Akshay Kumar sure knows how to entertain his audiences.

Bunny gave the audience at the India Day Parade a riff on his memorable line from Pushpa, to thunderous applause of course.

Ankita Singh has always dreamt of a career in singing, but her family was against it.

Ekta Kapoor invited her friends from the television industry for a brunch at her home to celebrate the Ganpati festival.

'It's Mani Ratnam's dream project and to be a part of that is any artiste's dream.'

On Lata Mangeshkar's birthday, Prachita Baban Patil sings for the legend.

'It is very natural to connect to Lataji's songs whenever I am singing,' says Atul Bane.

'This novel, even after 1,000 years, is still relevant.''The politics and psychology is still relevant.''It is as contemporary as you can get.'

Salman Khan and Chiranjeevi were a delight to watch at the trailer launch of their film Godfather in Mumbai.

Like every year, Sunita and Anil Kapoor organised a Karva Chauth get-together at their home in Mumbai.

The stars Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar sighted over the weekend.

Sooraj Barjatya gives us Uunchai, a romance of a different kind.

'Our team met rape victims and their families. We went to their houses but were not allowed to ask too many questions. There would be disturbing silences.'

Directed by Vasan Bala, the murder mystery will stream on Netflix from November 11.

His fans speak.

Fans thronged outside Shah Rukh Khan's home Mannat on his birthday on November 2, and the superstar indulged them by stepping out on to his balcony and waving out to them.

'To essay Chhatrapati Shivaji is a huge responsibility. I can't tell you how great and proud I feel.'