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For Name’s Sake: Bollywood’s penchant for screen names





Film historian, Dhruv Somani, traces the saga of leading film personalities changing their birth-names for catchier screen names. A rose by any other name would not hav...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani reminds you of the time when women characters wouldn’t take nonsense from the Thakur potentates and became dacoits to wreak vendetta. ...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani takes stock of the Naagin and Naag movies, which have crowded the Bollywood repertoire for decades now. Snake stories have since time immemorial i...
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Film historian Dhruv Somani excavates the exclusive made-for video movies by Nari Hira and other producers, way before the arrival of the streaming channels Long before Netfl...
Read MoreChiller Thrillers





Film historian Dhruv Somani unearths eight Bollywood films, which were grossly undervalued. A distinct genre of thriller and suspense films emerged in Hindi cinema after the ...
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In her review of the newly dropped series on OTT platform Amazon Prime Paatal Lok, Reema Moudgil writes that the images haunt because they remind us of something that has poss...
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Today Mumbai’s film actors have wised up to the fact that fame and fortune don&rsq...
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