Diverse, not different

We live in a world spanning myriad landscapes that host a multitude of cultures within their boundaries. It is these borders that define and divide us. And it is often in t...

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt launches debut novel at World Book Fair

Acclaimed Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt says his debut novel ‘All That Could Have Been’, which is based on the screenplay of his forthcoming film ‘Hama...

Classic films of India in time capsule

India is the largest producer of films in the world but many classics that are milestones in the history of Indian cinema are in danger of extinction. The newly established...

Proceeds of Ali Zafar's video to go to charity

Actor, singer and artist Ali Zafar has brought together 50 of Pakistan’s most loved personalities for a music video that pays tribute to the Peshawar school massacre ...

WATCH OUT FOR MAHA ACTION

What?s interesting on television is the presence of authentic firang actors playing firang roles. Earlier, Tom Alter was invariably cast as the foreign hand in Hindi films;...

“Birdman” or “The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance”

Cast: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts.

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Television’s Otherwise Abled People

When it comes to portraying a mentally imbalanced person on the screen, and I am referring to television, there is a misconception that any character that has retardation i...

NO BLING, PLEASE

A television channel scan threw up an emerging change of dress code for women. The women characters ? mothers, mothers-in-law, bahus, etc. -- are wearing trendy outfits. Lo...

A YEAR OF CHANGE

2014 has been a year of change. It witnessed the launch of three new channels ? Zindagi, Sony Pal and EPIC. It also marked the entry of Amitabh Bachchan in the fiction genr...