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.

KASHISH grant to make films on LGBTQ+

Call for submissions open to KASHISH QDrishti Film Grant 2020

KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival, South Asia’s biggest and India’s most ma...

Scream!

Dhruv Somani, author of a set of four books A Touch of Evil, selects five horror flicks, which unwittingly went through the crrrrreaky cracks.<...

Are you woke?

Just like the rest of you, I’ve also been sitting at home, working when possible and consuming news on television, social media and the occasional newspaper, which ge...

Extraordinary

Harking back to one of the last freewheeling interviews given in New York by the famed actor, Peter O’Toole, in which he discusses Indian cricket, Bo...

Kulmeet Makkar: The man who never said ‘No’

A thought crossed my mind as I said a small prayer last night, “I’ve written two tributes back to back for Irrfan Khan and Rishi Ka...

Rishi Kapoor: He defined ‘Bollywood Art’

I write this tribute to Rishi Kapoor. A legend, a hero, the actor unparalleled and a person who was...

The quiet fade-out

How many care for a yesteryear star after her last breath? Here’s addressing the question, over a month after the passing away of yestery...

Ray lives on

His films are what Akira Kurosawa’s are to Japanese cinema, Robert Bresson’s to France and Michelangeo Antonioni to Italy. Khalid M...