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Thought Factory

Let’s Go to the Pictures

Rumi Taraporevala writes on the ‘masti-majaa’ of watching the movies with his buddies

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Movies

Hard Day’s Night

Film historian Dhruv Somani, clocks into Bollywood films, which were set in a tension-packed time frame of 24 hours.

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Bollywood

Honey Trehan: Raat Akeli Hai & The Twinkling Stars

The stellar cast, fantastic atmospheric visuals, haunting background score, directorial grip on the noir narrative of the film Raat Akeli Hai, ...

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Human Rights

Signs of the times: Love, Hate and Saffron Flowers

I am wondering if a chief minister of a state has the right in a democracy to give shrouded threats to Muslim men suspected to be indulging in ...

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Powerful People

Rewinding: Ustad Zakir Hussain

“I had interviewed Ustad Zakir Hussain, years ago in 1992; and he told me what made him emotional on stage once”, writes Hu...

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Movies

Those Courtesan Days

Film historian Dhruv Somani, writes on the near-extinct genre of Bollywood films, which took you into the kothas and durbars o...

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Kaleidoscope

To the story I was born

Aparajita Krishna plunges into her rich past, where there is a paean to her left leaning parents who inhabited India’s r...

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Alternative Entertainment

Tragedy: The Untold Story of Baby Naaz

Khalid Mohamed narrates the story of Baby Naaz, a super child actor of the vintage years, who ...

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Movies

Vanishing Act II: Bollywood actresses who disappeared

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, pens a sequel to his study on the actresses who retreated into the shadows

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Thought Factory

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...

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