Can Men be Allies among the many ‘Harvey Weinsteins’ in the Industry?

Anthony Bourdain is known as the strutting chef who kicked a drug habit, wrote a best-selling confessional Kitchen Confidential, and became an internationally recognized te...

Television and beyond

The recent BARC ratings place KBC at Numero Uno position amidst a fierce ratings war in a multi-channel environment…but it wasn’t always like this.

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So Long, Farewell, It’s Hard To Say Goodbye!

The last time I spoke to Piroj was two days before Nina Goel, her friend called me from Piroj’s mobile phone to inform me of her hospitalization and to tell me that P...

The Ballet Boys Of Mumbai

Sooni Taraporevala’s first virtual reality film captures the journey of two boys from Mumbai’s chawls to a ballet school in the US We first see Manish Chauhan, ...

25 Years Later, The "Reservoir Dogs" Team Meets At Tribeca Film Festival

Mr. Blonde, White, Orange, Pink, and Quentin Tarantino talk about making the film and how audience reactions have changed since its release. This article contains minor spo...

Acting, No Child’s Play

It’s not often that an episode or sequence gets lifted to a level by some outstanding acting. It’s not necessary that the sterling performance is from an adult ...

“Informed Women are Empowering the Less Advantaged Ones for a Better World” – Vinta Nanda

Men and women are said to be created equally but that may still be one for the books. Over a century of collectively fighting for a place in society, true feminist continue...

Bollywood & Sons, You Think You Can Bully Kangana Ranaut Out Of The Film Industry?

My name is Vinta Nanda and I have been around in the Indian entertainment industry since the mid-1980s. I started off as an assistant director under my idol Nadira Babbar i...

A Festival Of Films For Her

The heroine’s role in India’s first ever film was not played by a woman, but a man. In Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913), the character of Quee...