J Jagannath on how he expects to see the Trump effect at the Academy Awards.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui's survivor instinct has been learnt on the streets.His hard-earned victory has come after innumerable struggles, but he hasn't lost focus of one simple fact.Suparn Verma -- who directed Nawaz in Aatma -- tells us what it is.

Sukanya Verma's super-filmi week was high on drama.

'No late nights, no partying.''Though she avoided eating beyond her dietary regime, Sridevi loved to feed others.'

Syed Firdaus Ashraf explains why the Bollywood legend will remain an eternal part of his life.

Soorma Director Shaadi Ali moves on to his next biopic.Vivek Agnihotri reveals the subject of his next film.Bolly Gupshup with Subhash K Jha.

'It started as a kind of joke. Now I think it has gone far enough.'

A meeting with the head of Zee TV, film-maker Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi, would never be forgotten.'He asked me to leave the show, and the country.''When I refused, he asked his staff members to push me out of the room.''Men like Alok Nath feel empowered to misbehave with women because they have the tacit backing of powerful peers.'

'Thugs is smarter than a lot of 'nationalistic' movies,' notes Rohit Sathish Nair.

'Even when he moves beyond his traditional repertoire, he sticks to a template that does not take him too far from the viewer's gentler emotions,' notes Vikram Johri.

'We have worked hard to make a big epic homage to a man, scholar and politician, who is misunderstood.'

Parasite's razor-sharp characterisations ensure that the picture is thoroughly entertaining though it falls short of greatness, declares Sreehari Nair.

'Visibility is very important, but visibility is also very expensive.'Swapnil Joglekar explores the Parasite phenomenon.

The Fifes and Drums of Colonial Williamsburg carry forward the tradition of military music heard on the battlefields of Yorktown.

From the Summer 2002 Journal: "Making "Cents" of Colonial Money"