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Dara Singh: The hero’s colourful life on and off screen

Vikas Datta - December 23, 2022

His life seems right out of a Bollywood potboiler. Pulled out of school and put to work on his family's agricultural land, he is...

‘Tumsa Nahi Dekha’: Shammi Kapoor and his rocking, reinvented film career

Vikas Datta - December 23, 2022

From a prominent family of actors, Shammi Kapoor initially considered a career in science before following his father and elder brother into the film...

Amjad Khan: The actor and his journey beyond Sholay

Vikas Datta - December 16, 2022

He carved himself into the history of Bollywood playing — in his first major role — a foul-mouthed, sadistic, and vicious brigand, but there...

‘Aap jaisa koi…’: The dazzle of Zeenat Aman

Vikas Datta - December 9, 2022

The first model to make it big in Bollywood, she went on to make her name as an actress ready for unconventional and 'bold'...

The life and cinema of V. Shantaram

IANS - November 25, 2022

Cinema can be a powerful medium for social transformation and no one gauged it better than the legendary V. Shantaram who used his memorable...

Ashok Kumar: Actor hailed as Bollywood’s ‘Jewel’

Indian Link - October 14, 2022

It was in 1936 that Ashok Kumar had a rather ridiculous start to his career as an actor. Virtually intimidated by his legendary boss taking...

Eagle-eyed Twitter users are spotting Bollywood posters in other Bollywood films

Indian Link - September 30, 2022

Apart from the music and dance sequences, there’s something else Bollywood lovers can’t go without and that’s the iconic film poster. For generations, these movie...

Stars at IFFM 2022 as festival returns to cinemas

Virat Nehru - August 18, 2022

“It’s so nice to see everyone in person and not over zoom,” began Mitu Bhowmick Lange, Festival Director of the Indian Film Festival of...

IFFM 2022 Awards Night: Honours for Kabir Khan’s ’83’

Virat Nehru - August 18, 2022

Sports film 83, about India’s unlikely triumph beating the mighty West Indies at the 1983 Cricket World Cup, swept the major awards at the...

Is Bollywood in crisis?

Indian Link - August 17, 2022

After disaster struck the two Independence Day long weekend releases - Aamir Khan's long-awaited, mega-hyped Laal Singh Chaddha and the Akshay Kumar-starrer Raksha Bandhan...