The inside story of how Sony Pictures in India went about producing Saawariya, the grand debacle, and why the experience frightened studios.
14 April 2010What does a person blind since birth ‘see’? We asked 16-year-old Renuka Shinde.
24 March 2010In the final days before the release of his film Love, Sex Aur Dhokha, director Dibakar Banerjee gave Open full access to his life.
17 March 2010Why has one of our most gifted film directors sunk to such depths?
03 February 2010The Hindi film industry is notorious for lifting stories. Is there a solution?
12 January 2010It refers to the controlled administration of intravenous ‘truth serum’.
07 January 2010You can’t go racing in these cars but they sure can attract a crowd. Their maker had stopped displaying them at traffic safety weeks, as they were causing traffic jams
18 November 2009Is architect Hafeez Contractor a superhero or just an overrated marketing success?
05 November 2009Karan Johar is tired of playing it safe. He talks to Open on what age has to do with his new approach, why he apologised to Raj Thackeray and why Bollywood is looking beyond its own gene pool.
28 October 2009Brahma 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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