Twinkle to Tabu: 10 Women Making Bollywood Look Good

God knows that Bollywood, with its casual sexism and perpetuating of stereotype, badly needs all the PR help it can get. The Khans are too busy. One is otherwise occupied i...

Sex and sensibility: Bollywood erotica in the time of Censor curbs

From Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978), Utsav (1984), Anubhav (1986) and Kama Sutra (1996) to the more recent Jism (2003) and Murder (2004), you can hardly call erotica novel i...

Bollywood Hits That Passed And Failed Gender Test In 2014

Another year, and another assortment of blockbusters, pulpy B-grades movies and the oddball-character-driven pieces passed us by. On the bright side, 2014 was a breakthroug...

Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt launches debut novel at World Book Fair

Acclaimed Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt says his debut novel ‘All That Could Have Been’, which is based on the screenplay of his forthcoming film ‘Hama...

Is A Number Crunching Agency Needed?

Vinta Nanda, Filmmaker-

Box office figures should be accurate. Yes, Bollywood should take help of agencies like Rentrak a...

Online portal signs up 300 celebrities for charity

An Indian online firm primarily catering to the cause of charity has recently signed up 300 celebrities, including Bollywood personalities Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padu...

Sachin Tendulkar, Aishwarya Rai help raise Rs 13.6 crore to fund schools

The Coca Cola – NDTV ‘Support My School’ campaign raised pledges worth Rs 13.6 crore towards the revitalisation of 272 schools across India via a telethon...

Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Gautam Gulati Support The # BeWithBeti Campaign

Btowners never hesitate to come forward and show their support for a good cause. Recently, a lot of Bollywood celebrities are showing their support for # BeWithBeti campaig...

WATCH OUT FOR MAHA ACTION

What?s interesting on television is the presence of authentic firang actors playing firang roles. Earlier, Tom Alter was invariably cast as the foreign hand in Hindi films;...