He’s rash and unpredictable, and the jury is still out on his acting skills. So what makes Salman Khan such a force to reckon with?
02 September 2011Bollywood no longer sees a heroine’s advancing years as a liability. This should let older actresses break the glamour mould and take on edgier roles
18 August 2011Why, after so many years, am I so in Bollywood’s thrall? It’s the stories, really. The ones you never see turned into films
06 August 2011There are some films that never leave you. Here is my selection of a few unforgettable ones
20 July 2011At the IIFA awards in Toronto, I saw again how crazy we are about our film stars. Is it this madness that keeps Bollywood from being flattened by Hollywood? Perhaps
06 July 2011Tom Hanks credits his success to an ability to say ‘no’. If only more people would follow their instincts and only do work they believe in
22 June 2011True, some films we critics dislike go on to become box-office smashes. But our job is to be concerned with the quality of a film, not the collections
08 June 2011When will Bollywood’s status as comic relief at international film festivals change?
26 May 2011The flops that broke filmmakers and became the stuff of cautionary fable
15 April 2011Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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