Et tu, Dadamoni? How Ashok Kumar fell from grace in Suraiya’s eyes
There are a lot of distractions while reading eBooks on the phone and Twitter is one. As I was swiping through the pages of Raju Bharatan’s A Journey Down Melody…Continue Reading →
There are a lot of distractions while reading eBooks on the phone and Twitter is one. As I was swiping through the pages of Raju Bharatan’s A Journey Down Melody…Continue Reading →
Govind Nihalani faced threats from Hindu right-wing groups for making ‘Tamas’ (1987) and had to be given police protection.
Update: Filmfare seems to have removed its magazines from sale on Magzter. As regular readers of this blog (if there…
It has happened to the best of quizzards and I was far from being anywhere close to the best. The year was 2000 and the place – a packed auditorium…Continue Reading →
Disclosure: I am an ebook evangelist. Update 2: As expected, Google and HarperCollins India seems to have been alerted of…
Who is the greatest playback singer of Hindi cinema? The debate was raging from much before I was born (and…
Indians would have surely been disappointed by Milkha Singh’s legendary defeat in the 400 metres final at the 1960 Rome Olympics, but did the disappointment turn into actual anger as…Continue Reading →
[This post is part of the 100 Years of Indian Cinema celebrations on Cutting the Chai] In May this year…
The obits call him Bollywood’s most feared villain. Not for me. To me Pran Saheb was the most hero-like of…
The Bombay underworld, is full of stories fit to be made into movies and they have been – lots of them. One of these films unfailingly finds a place in…Continue Reading →
A topical in context of the ongoing IPL spot fixing brouhaha. This is from one of the most fondly remembered…
The 2013 movie Bombay Talkies couldn’t live up to the standards set by the original Bombay Talkies, the film studio…