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The Deewaar of Aadhaar
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryFebruary 14, 2018 1

The Deewaar of Aadhaar

The 'deewaar' of Aadhaar has people on both sides of the wall (and also many sitting on it)Continue Reading →

Mrinalini Sarabhai the unofficial Google doodle
Bollywood

2016 in unofficial Google doodles

There are some doodles that Google didn’t (or wouldn’t) doodle. The Chaiwallah prides himself as an unofficial Google doodler. I…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0December 20, 2016
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - the Unofficial Google doodle
Bollywood

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan – the unofficial Google doodle

I was in school when she first mesmerised us all with those emerald eyes and over two decades later, those…

Soumyadip Choudhury 1November 1, 2015
Elements of Bollywood - The Bollywood periodic table
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryAugust 16, 2015 0

The Bollywood periodic table

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 →

Post-Piku t-shirt
Bollywood

Coming soon: The post-Piku t-shirts (and panjabis) 😉

You might have read the reviews, or better still, watched the ‘motion picture’. Shoojit Sircar’s Piku brings out the poop…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0May 10, 2015
Bollywood

Akshay Kumar’s first modelling assignment

Before becoming an actor, Akshay Kumar did only one modelling assignment and it was for a gym called Perfect 10.…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0February 24, 2014
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryFebruary 24, 2014 1

Mao Tse-tung’s favourite Bollywood song

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 →

Bollywood

Shammi Kapoor’s unrealised desire

One of Shammi Kapoor’s unfulfilled desires was to be a horse-riding tea garden manager in Assam. [tbpspa]

Soumyadip Choudhury 0February 11, 2014
Bollywood

Guru Dutt the reluctant actor

Shammi Kapoor was to be the hero in Aar Paar (1954) and Dilip Kumar was the choice for the role…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0February 3, 2014
Interval in a cinema hall screening a Bollywood film in the 1970s
Bollywood Soumyadip ChoudhuryJanuary 29, 2014 0

Watch: Interval at a cinema hall in the 1970s screening a Hindi film

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 →

Bollywood

Don (1975) and the curious case of duplicates

In Chandra Barot’s Don (1978) Pran’s duplicate (for stunts) was a woman, while Zeenat Aman’s was a man. (Hat tip:…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0January 29, 2014
Filmfare magazine cover dated April 2, 1954 featuring the first Filmfare Award winners
Bollywood

Filmfare magazine cover dated April 2, 1954 featuring the first Filmfare Award winners

60 years ago on Sunday, March 31, 1954 the first Filmfare Awards ceremony (for films released in 1952-53) was held…

Soumyadip Choudhury 0January 26, 2014

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