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  • May
    27

    New kid on B’wood block

    Phew. At long last, there’s a new kid on the Bollywood block who appears to know what he wants.

  • May
    26

    Gabbar and the lost art of villainy

    Gross villainy, that extremity of human nature, persists in Indian as well as international cinema.

  • May
    20

    Sexuality steps out of B’wood closet

    Beer? No fears. When the pretty peppy Chaalbaaz tanked in 1989 at the cash counters, a trade scholar theorised that it was all because Sridevi

  • May
    13

    Clash of two divas in Parliament

    By one of those quirk of circumstances, I found myself seated plonk next to Shabana Azmi, when our friend-film honcho, Amit Khanna

  • May
    11

    End the desecration of Indian classics

    Raja Harischandra, the nation’s first full-length feature, was premiered on May 3, 1913, at Mumbai’s Coronation Cinema.

  • May
    06

    Style bhais of the movie

    Style bhais of the movies are becoming an extinct species. My jaw hasn’t hit the floor, of late, on scanning Page 3 — at times Page 5 or 7 or 8

  • Apr
    29

    No studio hop, no glory

    Once, there was this film media thingamujig called studio hopping. An ill-paid newbie reporter or a withering veteran would leap

  • Apr
    27

    Pioneer of the wave that was

    Shyam Benegal, the most incisive speaker on myriad aspects of Indian cinema, continues to believe in his brand of filmmaking.

  • Apr
    22

    When actresses go on a solo trip

    She’s the best actress that I have had the privilege to work with.

  • Apr
    15

    The short and long-term players

    Whenever I bump into him, he behaves like a long-lost brother, almost breaks into song-and-dance, and asks rapidly with mega-concern,