SMOOCH: Bollywoods Shaky Affair With The Kiss?

Monojit Lahiri investigates ‘the kiss’ in Bollywood cinema and the reasons why it has barely transcended the cooch...

AMITABH BACHCHAN AND THE ANGRY YOUNG MAN

One of the biggest box-office failures of the superstar’s career, Alaap boasts one of his subtlest performances and, arguably, the best m...

The Human Voice

Khalid Mohamed, who was commissioned to write the official autobiography of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997)...

Divya Dutta: Actor-Star In Her Sky!

Aparajita Krishna meets Divya Dutta and explores her career, the journey of an inimitable actor, a powerful woman and an optim...

Different Strokes

Manoj Bajpayee, in a heart-to-heart conversation with Khalid Mohamed, on his journey right from the mercurial gangster Bh...

More Sinned Against Than Sinning!

Monojit Lahiri attempts a non-judgmental take on ‘Brand Bollywood’.

Art. Real...

Claude Chabrol and The Poetics of Murder

My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’, La Nouvelle Vague, was through Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978). M...

In the land of the capitalists

‘Battleship Potemkin’ was premiered at the historic Bolshoi Theatre auditorium in Moscow on December 21, 1925, writes Monis...