Women’s Day 2020 Special: Bollywood is not a place for non-conformists. Women who live life on their own terms are seen as trouble-makers and shunned. And yet...
Telling it like it is doesn’t come easily in an industry where nothing is as it seems, and speaking the truth could mean the end of...
Subhash K Jha Selects The Legendary Chiranjeevi’s 5 Finest Some actors are great performers,others are big stars ,while some others are good human beings. Chiranjeeevi is a blend of all 3. Spanning...
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak(1988): The (lover)Boy Next Door image which was created specifically for this film became the reference point for Aamir’s image in future. He is the dependable...
The days of cine-superstars lording over audiences’ attention is over. The OTT platform ,a compulsion rather than a preference in 2020 to begin with, has now come to...
Madhubala: It was in her smile — the flirtatious half-smile that hinted at more stormy secrets within. Madhubala is still considered by many connoisseurs to be...
1. Sridevi started her career in Hindi cinema as a child actor in two films. She played the child version of actress actress Vijaylalitha in the stunt action film Rani Mera Naam ...
1. Barse ghan saari raat…sangg sow jao(Tarang): The immensely gifed composer Vanraj Bhatia created only one song for Lataji for Kumar Shahani’s experimental film Tarang…and what a song….a long narrative...
2 OTT Webseries You May Have Missed OTT Webseries: 22 Yards(Amazon Prime) ”Normally I wouldn’t trust a hero named Ron Roy. It sounds like an alias for a scamster ...
Pareeksha(Zee5): The heart is completely in the right place. Pareeksha,director Prakash Jha’s best in years, is a heartwarming unabashed tearjerker.It reminded me of one my favourite Shabana Azmi starrers Bhavna (1984) where the mother...
1. Every year Salman Khan’s birthday is brought in at his family farm in Panvel .Salman hates cutting cakes on his birthday. Since the family insists on the cake-cutting ceremony he...
Oh ma teri soorat se alag bhagwan ki soorat kya hogi: Dadi Maa(1966)—It’s not easy to sing in praise of the Mother Figure without tripping into...
1. She is the undisputed God of all melodious of things. The Sing Sena Supremo. But whom does Lata Mangeshkar idolize as a singer? It’s Kundal Lal Saigal. She adored his voice...
Nepotism is again a much-discussed subject in Bollywood, what with 3 prominent star kids Agastya Nanda, Khushi Kapoor and Suhana Khan making their debut in Zoya...
Aamir Khan is known to be a perfectionist. There are stories attached to every film that he has done so far. Here are some that you may...
Chalo bulava aaya hai mata na bulaya hai(Avtaar): It is widely believed that Avtaar which was one of Rajesh Khanna’s last hits became a craze largely due to this Maata Bhajan sung in full-throated glory by Narendra Chanchal and accompanied by Mahendra Kapoor and Asha Bhosle....