Sunil and Rohan Gavaskar’s Brush with Forhan’s
Abhishek Bachchan delivered a string of 17 flops before his first hit and then gradually rose up the ladder to be amongst the reigning stars of Bollywood. But cricket isn’t…Continue Reading →
Abhishek Bachchan delivered a string of 17 flops before his first hit and then gradually rose up the ladder to be amongst the reigning stars of Bollywood. But cricket isn’t…Continue Reading →
The advertisement that got everyone talking: in the office, at home, on Twitter, on Facebook, on blogs and even on…
Bollywood’s best loved love story Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge released in 1995. This advertisement for Hindustan Motors Ambassador car is…
Lisa Ray, one of the prettiest faces around, was a teenage crush (I had a number of them). Easily the hottest import from Canada to land on Indian shores, the…Continue Reading →
The language was Bangla, but the accent and the stories, distinguishably Chinese. An avid radio listener, my father tried to…
Old Monk, as all Old Monk bacchantes will agree, is not just a rum, it’s an institution. You don’t drink…
This advertisement for Grasim's Graviera Suitings is one of the rare occasions when Salman and Sangeeta appeared together professionally.Continue Reading →
A few years back, I had put together, on this blog, an extensive collection of Indian Cigarette Ads from 1800s…
You may remember Aamir Khan riding a Hero Puch on the roads of Delhi in the 1999 film Sarfarosh (it’s…
What seems unusual (to me) about this Lux ad (from early 1970s) that Lux is known to have established actresses (and also an actor) as the face in their ads.…Continue Reading →
One day, in the comparatively innocent times that we grew up in, a friend announced, “I had oral sex.” I…
Quite a long while ago when I had initiated (and now reviving) the Fantastic Females series on this blog, the…