BOLLYWOOD’S AMAZING CHUMMA CHUMMA STORY: FROM OOOIMAA TO GO-BABY-GO!

A caress given with lips, key to paradise, the blossom of love, the first discharge of a purely, physical, sexual sensation, the first crisis o...

TRAVELLING ON THE ROAD TO THE AMERICAN DREAM

Vidyut Latay’s documentary film “Alien” is selected for screening at Tasveer South Asian Film Festival (TSAFF 23). I talk to ...

THE EMOTION DRIVING MODERN INDIA TODAY: MAHATMA GANDHI

On the Mahatma’s 154^th birth anniversary, Humra  Quraishi brings snatches of conversations she’s h...

पानइंडिया (PaanIndia!)

The history of Paan has mythological as well as historical and Ayurvedic references, writes Aparajita Krishna.

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AMIT KHANNA’S JOURNEY AS A LYRICIST

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri goes past many of Amit Khanna’s talents and brings fo...

TORN BETWEEN TWO IDEOLOGIES – RAM RAJYA AND RAVAN RAJ

An excerpt from the book Mandodari, by Koral Dasgupta, released at Kitab Khana Mumbai with a conversation between the author and Avantika Bahug...

STAR BENEGA ACTOR? SIMPLE…LAGAO DE-GLAM FACTOR!

Monojit Lahiri examines Bollywood’s fascinating disease about every star’s secret desire to be hailed as an actor....

STRAW DOGS: POETICS OF VIOLENCE OR MISOGYNY?

Based on a novel by Gordon Williams – ‘The Siege of Trencher’s Farm’, it was also my first exposure and my starting poi...

MANI KAUL’S ICONOCLASTIC USKI ROTI

This film is a juxtaposition of slow-moving close-ups and wide shots layered with lots of silence and interspersed with a few monotonous dialog...