The Deewaar of Aadhaar
The 'deewaar' of Aadhaar has people on both sides of the wall (and also many sitting on it)Continue Reading →
The 'deewaar' of Aadhaar has people on both sides of the wall (and also many sitting on it)Continue Reading →
There are some doodles that Google didn’t (or wouldn’t) doodle. The Chaiwallah prides himself as an unofficial Google doodler. I…
I was in school when she first mesmerised us all with those emerald eyes and over two decades later, those…
London-based designer Johnny Joannou has a thing for the periodic table. His long series of designs based on the chemisty periodic table of elements covers a wide range of sports…Continue Reading →
You might have read the reviews, or better still, watched the ‘motion picture’. Shoojit Sircar’s Piku brings out the poop…
Before becoming an actor, Akshay Kumar did only one modelling assignment and it was for a gym called Perfect 10.…
It is a little difficult to imagine Chairman Mao, humming along a Hindi film song. But it is said that the founding father of communist China Mao Tse-tung quite liked…Continue Reading →
One of Shammi Kapoor’s unfulfilled desires was to be a horse-riding tea garden manager in Assam. [tbpspa]
Shammi Kapoor was to be the hero in Aar Paar (1954) and Dilip Kumar was the choice for the role…
Now that multiplexes (and piracy) have altered our movie watching experience for good, ever wondered what it was like inside a theatre back in the heydays of the single-screen theatres?…Continue Reading →
In Chandra Barot’s Don (1978) Pran’s duplicate (for stunts) was a woman, while Zeenat Aman’s was a man. (Hat tip:…
60 years ago on Sunday, March 31, 1954 the first Filmfare Awards ceremony (for films released in 1952-53) was held…