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CAMPION TALES OF OLD BOMBAY
Producer, Director and Actor Rajiv Kapoor, shared this precious piece written by his school mate John Mani, with me on Whatsapp last night and I publish it here in The Daily E...
Read MoreNusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Genius replayed on a Mega-Monsoon Day in Mumbai
No reason, no occasion for a replay today except maybe the fact that it’s just another mega-monsoon day. And I’m anxiously searching for music to go with the rhyth...
Read MoreLights Still On: Portrait of a 70-year-old Photo Studio where once Bollywood’s Legendary Stars Shone Bright
The incalculable number of photographs – running into crores – of vintage Hindi cinema’s charismatic actors and film classics have vanished into thin a...
Read MoreBareilly Kaifiyat that throbs in the Bone, Pulse and Heartbeat of a Doctor: Dr Brijeshwar Singh
On April 24 2016 while being car-driven from Delhi to Bareilly I was already in Bareilly Kaifiyat (State of Mind). Driver Roop Singh was an expert on the wheels and a fabulous...
Read MorePiya Ka Ghar – Days of the Future Past
We called him just Chatterjee. The only pragmatic answer to avoid a comedy of errors was to address him simply by the surname! Chatterjee. Suddenly there were two Basus -Ba...
Read MoreBioscopewala
Call him the Kabuliwala or Bioscopewala, that image of a tainted outsider waiting to commit dastardly crimes against children is common to all cultures. The perpetrator howeve...
Read MoreGoogle @ my First Address in Life and its Fruity Lychee taste: MUZAFFARPUR
I have changed many addresses in life as an itinerant. When I click life@57, it is my first address in life and its smell, taste, sight and sound that surfaces from the cradle...
Read MoreHaidar Ali @70 & His Familial Film Heritage: A Treasure Trove
Voter-India ought to be voting Nirbhaya (unafraid) in 2018/ 2019 also for the freedom of Film India, Fashion India and her rights. Padmaavat played under police-protection. Wi...
Read MoreYesteryear’s Legends Emerge Favourites on the Web World
The living legend, Lata Mangeshkar, has scored the highest number of likes and followers across generations, on the plethora of social media network sites, blogs and...
Read MoreLove lost in Yesteryear’s Prem Nagar
Prem Nagar – a lovers’ lane – has gone under. That one spot shielded from voyeuristic eyes by untrimmed wild bushes and shrubbery, on the seafront of Malabar...
Read MoreMAHOGATHA REVIVES MAHASHWETA DEVI’S LEGACY
Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews Mahogatha, a powerful Hindi theatrical adaptation of three...
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Arnab Banerjee reviews Daadi Ki Shadi, examining its progressive premise, hesitant story...
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On Mother’s Day, writer Monojit Lahiri reflects on Bollywood’s evolving scre...
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