Gauhar Khan has a derriere to die for like Kim Kardashian. But that’s where the similarity between Khan Sisters and Keeping up with the Kardashians begins and ends. Even trash needs class.
A wild child who nearly drowned the maid. A mother's best friend who helped her through the roughest time in her marriage. Meet the Ranbir Kapoor you never knew.
She's not a great actress, not even a great dancer. But Helen is a real star. That's why a Canadian drag queen is shimmying into that amazing 'baithe hain kya' costume.
Hope the festival, with its awkward mix of art and commerce, delivers another round of exemplary theatre through its 15 premiering plays starting today.
No sex please, we're Indian. That old saying has gone out of the window in Bollywood. Indian cinema is stripping down and getting to business. But does that mean it's all grown up now?
Pankuj Parashar, acclaimed Bollywood director, reminisces about 14th road, Khar, Mumbai which has a unique Bollywood past, present and future, attached to it.
The MAMI film festival has gotten bigger but it's hard to say it's gotten better. But good cinema addicts sweated out all the logistical problems to try and find some movie gems.
As another edition of Mumbai's premiere film festival gets underway on 13 October , here's a pick of 10 must-watch films.
Since the sixties, the female stars have reliably played to certain archetypes. They were predictable, but also had a signature style. But many are now going quietly extinct.
Cold-shouldered by the Bollywood elite, America's most famous skank discovered there's a new power equation between India and Hollywood celebrities. But in one unintended way, she also proved that we remain sad little wannabes, after all.
Shanta Gokhale's new book on Satyadev Dubey brings together essays, interviews and reviews by playwrights and theatre critics, and a selection from Dubey's own articles. The book will be launched in Mumbai in October.
Enough with middle aged stars playing college kids. Enough with heroes who think as long as they have a six pack they can pull off a romance with a heroine, a generation younger. Middle age is just a number. Embrace it.
Not all stars are born equal but some should never have been stars. But they still hang on at the box office by some invisible thread. From the idols of yesteryears to the ones making waves today, who are Bollywood's most overrated stars?
Remember Jumping Jeetu in his famous white shoes? Or what about the eternal gaon ki gori choli? Bollywood has many claims to global fame, but the most dubious is its fashion sense.
Jag Mundhra became famous in Hollywood for his lingerie-and-lust movies like Night Eyes and Sexual Malice. But then he decided to re-invent himself with a little help from the likes of Nandita Das and Aishwariya Rai.
A round-up of what eight celebrated international directors have to say about Indian cinema.
Gone are the days when ardent heroes wooed their true love with a song. We may still have serenading romeos on our streets, but they are almost extinct on the silver screen.
The play employs mixed media lavishly, but ends up being a self indulgent, halfway play.
Satyajit Ray died almost 20 years ago, but even today his films have lost none of their spark or ability to touch human emotion. In a sense, his films can speak across generations and cultures.
To have a cerebral woman hold sway in a filmi narrative is the final frontier.
An Irish American woman stumbles upon a half-forgotten Tamil song from a decade ago. And instantly it's flashback time — to a great romance and the utter heartbreak that followed. All with music by AR Rahman.
Anxious about seeing your favourite wizard on his final cinematic outing? Here are seven things this Potter nerd loved and hated about the movie.
If a Bollywood script is centred around female-bonding, it almost necessarily means the absence of a male figure.
Bollywood blockbuster Shaitan and the Tamil film Eesan begin in almost identical fashion. However the way the two films proceed from that point denotes a vastly different moral ethos.
The streets might not be safe for women but are movie scripts any safer? As Slutwalk comes to Delhi next month, here’s a look at how Hindi films handle the sexual violation of women.
An intelligent, intuitive and highly skilled performer, Shah’s gift lies in making even peripheral parts memorable.
There must be at least some folks in the Hindi movie industry watching the goings on down South and taking note, as there have been more and more influences trickling upwards toward Mumbai.
This weekend, Sunil Shanbag opens his new show at Prithvi Theatre. In Stories in a Song he isn’t quite plumbing the depths unraveling the cultural strands that make up the rich tapestry of Hindustani music. Instead he serves us bite-sized morsels through a montage of seven loosely interwoven theatrical set-pieces.
Watching our films we could almost buy in on the idea that the term ʻhonour killingsʼ is just something coined by the British press to give a cultural context to plain old pre-meditated murder, fueled by hate and human frailty and not by notions of power, ego or feudal arrogance.
For a while now, I’ve been itching to share some unsolicited advice in the form of suggested Dos and Don’ts for the famous filmi folk out there who are already on Twitter, or who are thinking of joining. Now is a good time.