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Book Review | Romancing The ‘80s: Nostalgia With Some Gaps
His masters’ voices
All that remains is pure cinema
Box office result shouldn’t be the only yardstick to judge a film’s quality: Amol Palekar
There Are No Permanent Villains": What Shyam Benegal Told Me About Bollywood's Bad Men
How an ardent Kishore Kumar fan turned his house into a ‘museum’
Propaganda should best be left out of films
Adverse effect of a reverse sweep
Rise of the true blue Indian cinema
THOUGHT FACTORY: DEPICTION OF CHILD ABUSE IN CINEMA
Opinion | Lights, Camera, Villainy: The ‘Shaitaans’ of Bollywood
Bringing crime home to India
Ameen Sayani turned radio programmes into celebrations. A pioneer in many ways
Opinion | Woh Kaun Thi? to Laapata Ladies: Mistaken Identity has been a Time-Tested Trope in Bollywood
Letting go of it all: Ananth Mahadevan on his latest 'Aata Vel Zaali'
‘Didn’t Want to Cast a Known Pair’: Sriram Raghavan
Cancerous gimmick that won’t last
Kabuliwala 3.0' movie review: An unlikely love story
From ‘Mughal-E-Azam’ To ‘Animal’, The Father-Son Conflict In Bollywood Films
Piggybacking on Masochism
From Rural Moneylending To Stock Market Manipulation, The Bollywood’s Portrayal Of Financial Scams
Opinion | Lakdi ki Kaathi: The Loss of Childhood in Hindi Cinema
A Tribute to ‘Mother India’: Revisiting New-Age Radhas
Tooning Around
DDLJ Worked Decades Ago as it was about a transtiton
National Cinema Day: How Films In India Are Much More Than Just Entertainment
From Depressed Poets To Psychopaths, How Bollywood Has Portrayed Mental Illnesses Over The Years
Opinion | ‘Khwab Ho Tum Ya…’: The Evergreen Dev Anand
Remembering Tarun Bose, Hindi Film Industry’s Unexplored Jewel
Opinion | Prem Naam Hai Mera…Prem Chopra: Hindi Cinema’s Handsome Villain
Jawan's Vigilante chronicles A Bollywood Fantasy
For toxic Bollywood, change begins at home
Remembering Filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Remembering ‘Mughal-E-Azam’, K Asif’s Magnum Opus And Bollywood’s Towering Moment
Amjad Khan: Outside The Embers
Of Rama and epic shift in iconography
Hindi cinema’s unique James Bond clones and the Bond theme music’s Indian roots
Kora Kagaz to Hum Saath Saath Hain
Ranjeet, cinema's favourite 'rapist'
How Bollywood Has Highlighted the Challenges Faced by Labour Force
How Films Have Paid Humble Tributes to Jallianwala Bagh’s Immortal Martyrs
The Godfather Influences filmmakers from different cultures
Balaji Vittal Writes Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet
Amrish Puri: The long road to becoming the iconic Hindi cinema villain
Bhupinder Singh: A limited-edition, classy artist
Villain Se Hero Tak: Why Vinod Khanna Was a Rare Find for Cinema
Balaji Vittal Writes Pele And Pancham Football Players
The evolution of the thriller genre in Bollywood
On-Screen Politico
Are cheaters shamed? On copying and cheating in Indian cinema
On Bollywood actors being the worst brand ambassadors for road safety
Celluloid take on print media
Review: Rishi Kapoor’s ‘Khullam Khulla’ Is Straight From the Heart
Review: A Delightful Look at Nasir Husain’s Modern Musical Movies
Shammi Kapoor B’Day Special: The Man, the Actor and the Icon
Lyricist Anand Bakshi Knew the Pulse of the Populace
Five Hindi movie songs that ‘Gaata Rahe Mera Dil’ helps us hear differently
Music history: The unknown story behind ‘Woh shaam kuchh ajeeb thi’
OP Nayyar, the Music Maestro Who Regretted Nothing
Back-to-back heartbreak: SD Burman’s ‘Guide’ experiment remains unparalleled in Hindi film music
The Eureka moment that sealed the great partnership between RD Burman and Gulzar
RD Burman and the X factor
How long must we wait for the definitive Mohammed Rafi biography?
Review: Shashi Kapoor’s Bio Attempts to Oversell the Star
Rajesh Khanna's rise & fall: What you didn't know
On Manna Dey’s 100th Birth Anniversary, a Look Back at His Journey
Adverse effect of a reverse sweep