By | Friday, 23 Mar, 2018
LUNCH time at Yash Raj Films Studios in Andheri West. I am waiting for Rani Mukerji. She pours out like a bubbly champagne from an elevator on the first floor of the Video Wing. Sparkling..... Read more...
By | Wednesday, 21 Mar, 2018
Nikita Jaisinghani, 27, is a cute as they come. A big talent and personality in a petite, elfin-like package. Unconventionally chic and sexy. With the perfect oval face and laughing eyes. A contagious smile. And..... Read more...
By | Friday, 16 Mar, 2018
AJAY Devgn was taking me for a drive. Not in the latest sports edition Ford Mustang GT that you saw in Golmaal Again last year. That belongs to director Rohit Shetty. Nor in one of GM Hummers..... Read more...
By | Sunday, 25 Feb, 2018
One Ganesh Chaturthi some years ago, I invited the lovely Sridevi to join me for the 4.30pm aarti at Siddhivinayak, Mumbai's temple of miracles, dedicated to Lord Ganesh, in Prabhadevi. It was Anant Chaturdashi, the 10th and..... Read more...
By | Saturday, 10 Feb, 2018
A black London cab with a chipped license plate was parked outside R. Balki’s office in IMPAA House on Pali Hill. This used to be the HQ of the Indian Motion Pictures Producers’ Association. They..... Read more...
By | Monday, 05 Feb, 2018
I LIKE to think of Akshay Kumar as the People’s Champion. It is a nickname that was given to Muhammad Ali by Elvis Presley in the 1970s. And then WWE legend Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson..... Read more...
By | Sunday, 17 Dec, 2017
John Abraham is 45. Which is the start of middle age according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Only he does not look it. I have known him from 1999. That’s when he won the Gladrags Manhunt..... Read more...
By | Wednesday, 11 Oct, 2017
I REMEMBER Amitabh Bachchan’s 74th birthday last year. I happened to be interviewing him for HT Brunch. He was meeting-and-greeting fans at Pratiksha and Jalsa: his old and first home in Mumbai; and, the newer one down..... Read more...