GENDER: LAAPATAA LADIES’ OSCAR JOURNEY

A film from India's hinterland challenged conventions, capturing hearts and minds. But does its Oscar entry hold up under scrutiny, or are emot...

BOLLYWOOD: IN DEFENCE OF MAINSTREAM, MASALA MOVIES

Monojit Lahiri attempts a non-judgmental take on ‘Brand Bollywood’. He asks, “Professing undying allegiance ...

AGEISM, STEREOTYPING AND PAY DISPARITY IN BOLLYWOOD

While Bollywood, masters of tokenism, has occasionally tried to counter ageism and stereotyping, it has mainly played safe, distancing itself w...

OSCARS & INDIA – S – L – A – P!!

Not Will Smith and Chris Rock, but Oscars and our film industry, over years! Can the thappads ever turn to chum...

More Sinned Against Than Sinning!

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

Art. Real...

Star! Music Director! Singer!... Lyricist.

Why is the songwriter always last in the ‘hit parade’? Monojit Lahiri attempts to tune-in on this little-explored ...

Celebrating Bachchan!

It’s his 79^th birthday on the 11^th October, and S M M Ausaja writes that It’s not easy to ch...

Posters Forever!

Khalid Mohamed, tracks the spiralling demand for nostalgia-exuding vintage Bollywood posters a...

Bhanu Athaiya: Best of the Best

Film historian, Dhruv Somani, picks his 10 favourites from the vast collection  created by the late doyenne of film costu...