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ACTING IS “LYING FOR A LIVING!”
Monojit Lahiri examines the background behind this loaded, apocryphal statement, alluding to the great Hollywood legend, Marlon Bando! The Reluctant star! Hollywood-basher! T...
Read MoreCurious Case of Libaas





Film historian Dhruv Somani writes on the 1982 film of Gulzar, Libaas, with an outstanding music score by R.D.Burman, which has remained in the cans to date. Libaas (1988) wa...
Read MoreThe lives of Freda
Humra Quraishi visits Andrew Whitehead’s book ‘The Lives of Freda - The Political, Spiritual and Personal Journeys of Freda Bedi’. I do believe in des...
Read MoreLET THERE BE MUSIC
Khalid Mohamed replays a rare interview with Mani Ratnam on the director’s start-off collaborations with the then-fresher composer A.R.Rahman with Roja, Thiruda Thiruda ...
Read MoreIMMORTAL ACTS OF AMJAD KHAN
Aparajita Krishna asks commentators, including his wife Shehla Khan, son Shadaab Khan and daughter Ahlam Khan Karachiwala, why and how Amjad Khan was a great actor. Look...
Read MoreCONFLUENCE OR CONFLICT: SCREEN V/S STAGE
Monojit Lahiri attempts to explain how the screen and stage reside in two entirely different orbits with the only commonality being… acting! Dilip Kumar and Balraj Sah...
Read MoreHer Fabulous 15





On the event of her birthday tomorrow (August 15), film historian Dhruv Somani selects the 15 most unforgettable performances of Raakhee Gulzar. Equitable, upright and beauti...
Read MorePre-Partition Punjab’s Contribution To Indian Cinema
Professor Ishtiaq Ahmed delves deep into the Partition phase. And here comes in focus the leading artists and creative folk who had to shift base from Lahore, writes Humra Qur...
Read MoreA Border Love Story
Khalid Mohamed narrates the bittersweet tale of meeting his aunt, the major Pakistani filmstar Zeba Ali and her equally famous husband Muhammad Ali, when such reunions were po...
Read MoreNSD & Bollywood
Who is doing for whom? Monojit Lahiri does an interview-based close-up of this contentious issue. “Do you really need to learn acting to make a name or big bucks in Bol...
Read MoreOF WOMEN, BY WOMEN….TWO BOOK REVIEWS
Sohaila Kapur reviews Avni Doshi’s First House and Andaleeb Wajid’s Have You...
September 27 2026HAS BOLLYWOOD FORGOTTEN SCREEN LOVE
Today, with crime nationalism, and action calling the shots has love vanished from the s...
September 26 2026EK LAMHA ZINDAGI: LOVE BEYOND BORDERS Juhi Babbar
Soni delivers a remarkable solo performance in Ek Lamha Zindagi, directed by Makrand Des...
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