Manmohan Desai

Rishi Kapoor passes away: A look at his collaborations with directors, from Yash Chopra to Manmohan Desai

In a career spanning almost half a century, Rishi Kapoor has collaborated with some of the most noted filmmakers of the Hindi film industry.

Housefull 4 director Farhad Samji opens up on replacing Sajid Khan as director and the winning formula for commercial Hindi films

Farhad Samji replaced Sajid Khan as director after the latter was accused of sexual harassment last year.

Naach-gaana and inclusivity: Jonathan Gil Harris on how masala films reflect the idea of a pluralistic India

Author Jonathan Gil Harris on how masala films are a syncretic mix of traditions, what the significance of item songs is, and why the disappearance of single screen theatres has sounded a death knell for the genre

Narendra Modi is Manmohan Desai of politics, says Sitaram Yechury

Yechury also said that the Modi government was not convening the winter session of Parliament as it is trying to elude uncomfortable questions related to issues such as Paradise papers, Jay Shah, GST fallout and rising unemployment etc,

Tubelight missed the mark, but Kabir Khan is the closest we have to a modern-day Manmohan Desai

A close contender for the modern-day Manmohan Desai monicker, Kabir Khan may have missed the mark with Tubelight, but like his itinerant protagonists, he’s likely to find and cross newer borders with his sneakily political happy-making, tear-jerking brand of cinema.

Manohar Parrikar and Arvind Kejriwal: Political doppelgangers?

If Kejriwal put on a ‘Gandhi topi’ to bring the Mahatma’s idealism back in fashion, in Goa Parrikar put on a pair of Bermuda shorts to woo the Catholic vote.