Kumar Gaurav who turns 61 on July 11, goes the dubious distinction of being the shortest-lived superstar of Hindi cinema. When his debut film Love Story released in 1981...
Being Kishore Kumar’s son wasn’t easy for Amit Kumar. The comparisons never stopped. And to be fair, Junior was no patch on Senior. He survived the comparisons only because ...
49 is no age to go. I got to know Raj Kaushal when he directed a film called Pyar Mein Kabhi Kabhi in 1999. It was a sweet, if not a remarkable, take ...
Composer Lalit Pandit one-half of the popular Jatin-Lalit duo who composed the hit Aati kya khandala song in Ghulam in Aamir Khan’s voice, spoke to me about the song’s genesis. Says Lalit, “There is an incident that I want ...
Badlapur(2015): “The tree remembers, the axe forgets,” reads a proverb in the opening credits of a film that left me feeling like both the tree and the...
The Half Of It (Netflix) Starring Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire, and Collin Chou Directed by Alice Wu Rating: *** Mohit Suri’s Ek Villain plays an important in Chinese-American director Alice Wu’s...
1. Sujata(1959): Inspired directly by Dr Ambedkar’s treatise on the abolishment of the caste system Sujata is a haunting ever-renewable ever-relevant meditation on blood ties and social inequality. Nutan won her ...
I know Ram Gopal Varma for a longer time than I know almost anyone else in the film industry,except Shabana Azmi and Sanjay Leela Bhansali whom I have been friends with from much longer....
Many consider Mohd Rafi the Crooning Glory of romance. He could sing any Valentine date out of her reluctance with Mere mehboob tujhe meri mohabbat kikasam.Sadly for Rafi, the King of Romance RajeshKhanna preferred Kishore Kumar.But think...
It’s not the diet. It’s the attitude. Anil Kapoor at 65, looks 40. And I’m not kidding. When he came home for lunch , I stared at him open...
Torbaaz(Neflix) Starring Sanjay Dutt, Rahul Dev, Nargis Fakhri Directed by Girish Malik Rating: ** Torbaaz is one of those well-intended films that you feel bad in criticizing, It is made with a noble purpose,...
After reading comedian Krushna Abhishek’s defence of Bharati Singh and his tirade against Raju Shrivastava, Raju says he is dumbstuck by the line of defence assumed on Bharati’s friends. “When Krushna says he stands by Bharati, does he mean...
It is heartening and inspiring to see Rana Daggubati coming clean about his very serious health issues in 2019 when his kidney had collapsed. Rana had to...
Sanjay Dutt’s long-awaited Torbaaz directed by one of Bollywood’s underrated names GirishMalik , is going to be on Netflix on 11 December. Dutt’s fans, of whom there’s no dearth, can expect...
It is very convenient to attribute intentions and words to a dead person, since he isn’t around to contradict you. We now have reports that Rishi Kapoor and his...
1. Munnabhai MBBS: Producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra was very keen that Shah Rukh play Munnabhai while Vivek Oberoi was to play his friend Circuit. Shah Rukh didn’t feel comfortable with the role and character. Eventually Sanjay Dutt stepped in.And with him came Arshad Warsi....