A Journalist and two Gentlemen: Farooq Shaikh and Parvez Dewan

In the backdrop of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide, Humra Quraishi is reminded of what two gentlemen, Farooq Shaikh...

Mind Your Language: Vidya Balan on how to get the ps and qs right

Khalid Mohamed frazzled by today’s Bollywood language, talks to Vidya Balan on how she g...

The Unknown Story

Indian cinema’s first superstar, Master Nissar, had passed away in abject poverty

How many even know...

Anwesha Arya: The Miracle Woman

In times when many of Bollywood boys and girls are under the scanner, Vinta Nanda interviews Anwesha Arya &nd...

No Entry: Hazards in staging a theatre play in Mumbai

Khalid Mohamed recounts his peril-fraught, one-off experience in staging ‘Kennedy Bridge’, a play on yesteryear&rs...

Kashish 2020 goes Virtual

First major film festival in India to go online completely with a full-festival lineup of new LGBTQIA+ films from across the world

Considering that the city, the na...

Guns & Roses: Bollywood’s Dacoit Women

Film historian Dhruv Somani reminds you of the time when women characters wouldn’t take nonsense from the Thakur potenta...

Farewell Basu Da

Amit Khanna talks about Basu Chatterjee on the day Indian Cinema has lost him. He recalls how Basu Da was known for having mir...

Cinema of Resistance

Reema Moudgil walks us through some compelling cinema over the last seventy years of India’s independence, which has chr...