By | Friday, 15 Sep, 2017
Pictures can be misleading. I am not Kangana Ranaut’s friend. Nor am I her fan. I am an aficionado of good cinema. Of which, I like to believe, she is an outstanding artiste. In her 11.....
By | Tuesday, 05 Sep, 2017
Bollywood is engaged in a bloodless round of tit-for-tat currently over the titles of two potential films. The main players in this seesaw battle for title supremacy are filmmakers Vipul Shah, Shailendra Singh and if.....
By | Tuesday, 05 Sep, 2017
You might have expected director Apoorva Lakhia to be bitter at the way his underworld thriller Haseena Parkar has had to shift its release date in order to avoid clashes at the box-office with other.....
By | Monday, 14 Aug, 2017
Some critics are asking why he made this film. Why not? Filmmaking is his business. He’s one of the country’s leading actors. And among the most popular, successful and saleable. He’s also a producer and.....
By | Thursday, 28 Sep, 2017
Now it can be told. Two Indian beauties, the Hollywood actress and 1965 Miss India Persis Khambatta, and the 1980s Bollywood sex symbol Katy Mirza, were approached by Playboyfounder Hugh Hefner to grace his magazine’s cover.....
By | Wednesday, 17 Jan, 2018
Tina and Akshay Kumar are Bollywood’s most endearing and enduring couple. They are fun people: warm and caring hosts; and, entertaining conversationalists. I discovered all this one-night many year ago when I had dinner at.....
By | Tuesday, 12 Dec, 2017
Last year Rajnikanth refused to celebrate his birthday because Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha had passed away a week earlier and he and the state were in mourning. So there were no motorbike rallies.....
By | Friday, 08 Dec, 2017
I was to interview Dharmendra for today, his 82nd birthday. I haven’t met him in years. But sometimes, driven by nostalgia perhaps, he calls me for a long, rambling chat. It’s difficult to get him.....