Bollywood Films That Make Us Happy: Jagga Jasoos
Anurag Basu had made the ultimate Hindi film for the Bengali fanboy, with Ranbir Kapoor in the mould of the classic Bengali hero, and Pritam’s joyous songs
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Sayani Gupta On Season 2 Of Four More Shots Please! Being More Real And Relatable
The actress on the mixed response to the first season of Amazon Prime Video’s Four More Shots Please!, the importance of not getting typecast and why smaller films may struggle as a result of the current pandemic
Pritam Weighs In On Multi-composer Albums: ‘I Should Call Up Tanishk Bagchi’
The composer of Love Aaj Kal, and the upcoming 83, Lal Singh Chaddha and Brahmastra, on why there maybe a future where he only does the background score of a film
With Top Choreographers At War, Bollywood Background Dancers Face An Uncertain Future
The Cine Dancers Association founded in 1955 was once the one-stop bastion for background dancers to register. Now, this status is threatened
35 Bollywood Films We’re Looking Forward To In 2020
Bollywood 2020 in looks like more horror and sports dramas, more Ayushmann Khurrana and Akshay Kumar, the return of Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Imtiaz Ali and our first Baahubali-like mythological epic in Brahmastra
The 10 Best Hindi Film Albums of the Decade
From Udaan to Rockstar to Gully Boy, the best soundtracks of the 2010s either adhered to the more traditional idea of the Hindi film album, or showed a new way of doing it. Plus, Special Mentions
Pankaj Tripathi On His Two Birthdays, Discovering Meryl Streep And His Fear Of Burning Out
The actor on juggling his crazy schedule, travelling in his free time and why he wants to speak ‘nonsense’ sometimes
The 11 Best Uses Of Foreign Locations In Bollywood Movies
Most directors decide to treat the concept of “abroad” as a luxurious extension of big-budget Bollywood’s aspirational tone. But there have been films that don’t insist on highlighting where they are based as much as why their characters belong there at a certain point of time.
Durgeshgorer Guptodhon Movie Review: Escapist Fun That Should Appeal To The Young And T...
Durgeshgorer Guptodhon ticks all the right boxes for the ‘big summer blockbuster’ but could have done with greater attention to its writing
Amitabh Bachchan-Starrer Sharaabi Borrowed 2 Songs From Bangla Music And An All-Women A...
In the series Carbon Copy, we give you trivia on the connecting dots between many countries’ music. This week, we look at how composer Bappi Lahiri, who won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award for the film, lifted songs from Bangladeshi film ‘Koshai’ and vocal group The Three Degrees
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I’ve Met Some Really Terrible People In Mumbai: Kangana Recaps Her Movie Journey At P...
The actress recounts her journey to success in front of a live audience at the Signature Masterclass event
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How To Survive Failure In Showbiz
Failure in showbiz is quick and public. Years of work are dismissed in a day. Social media makes it even more hellish
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Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota Movie Review: A Whimsically Joyful Ode To A Life Of Movies
Vasan Bala’s martial-arts-dramedy-meets-Bollywood-parody is a movie inspired by the movies and feels like the most personal Hindi film of the year
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Akshay Kumar’s Gold, And How The Bengali Talks In Hindi Film
From Kahaani to Piku to Gold, the delights and frustrations of the ‘Bengali-Hindi’ spoken on screen
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Ishaan Khatter And Janhvi Kapoor On What It’s Like To Be Star Newcomers
The actors, who will be seen in Dhadak – the remake of the Marathi blockbuster Sairat, also spoke about whether one has to be a good person to be a good actor and what they’ve learnt from people around on what not to do
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Anurag Basu On What Went Wrong With Jagga Jasoos, And Why His Equation With Ranbir Kapo...
The director looks back at his crazy musical, how it broke the conventional screenplay structure, and why it should’ve been promoted differently
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Ravi Varman On The 4 Things He Learnt While Working On His First Film
The acclaimed cinematographer talks about his debut with Malayalam film Jalamarmaram and how it taught him to do things only if he liked them
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Ranbir Kapoor Deconstructs His Process, Script Choices, And What He’s Like When He’...
From using a perfume to get into character, giving over 70 takes for a song in Saawariya, to why Jagga Jaasos failed – the actor looks back at his career
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Ranbir Kapoor On Breaking His Back For Saawariya And Working Without A Script For Barfi
The actor also told us how he gets into character and what sacrifices he’s had to make along the way
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7 Great Ads You Didn’t Know Were Made By Bollywood Directors
From Shoojit Sircar’s Cadbury ad to Dibakar Banerjee’s Eno commercial – we pick our favourites
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