Mohammed Rafi: Forty Years Later

Anil Dixit exults about Mohammed Rafi’s imperishable legacy of songs, on the occasion of the legendary crooner’s 4...

Takes two to duet: Lata Mangeshkar’s duets with female singers

Anil Dixit handpicks a selection of rare film duets in which other female singers matched up t...

Lost Melodies: Bollywood’s vast film music heritage

Anil Dixit, walks down melody lane, to select five vastly underrated music scores

My go-to metaphor for Hindi film music is that it’s a rich ...

For Name’s Sake: Bollywood’s penchant for screen names

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, traces the saga of leadin...

An Interlude

Sathya Saran talks about her journey when writing on Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and she shares an excerpt from the book she h...

Woman of Song: Usha Khanna

Dhruv Somani makes a case to revisit Usha Khanna, one of Bollywood’s few and certainly the most prolific and popular women composers.

Raazi, Padmaavat and Badhaai Ho rule the red carpet at the Star Screen Awards 2018

The grand ceremony of the Star Screen Awards was held on 16 December in Mumbai this year. Popular bollywood celebrities like Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt and ...

The Buzz of Betrayal of Innocence

Sexual abuse and exploitation of children is taking on phenomenal proportions and we continue not to acknowledge it. This animated Public Se...

Ninth Jagran Film Festival to connect with 18 cities this Year

India’s largest travelling film festival, now connects with 18 cities this year onwards.  The 9 Read More