Shaikh Ayaz

At 47, director-choreographer Farah Khan makes her debut as an actress this year. She speaks of throwing starry tantrums and the frustration of not being the one in control on the sets

Krishna Reddy on the lessons of Nandalal Bose, memories of Santiniketan and Paris, and disappointment of not selling in India

From the dizzying heights of stardom to the depths of despair, the Rajesh Khanna story is unsurpassable

With this, it’s clear Ram Gopal Varma has exhausted himself on the mafia-police nexus

An anti-love story that collapses into a pamphlet on interfaith marriages

Annu Kapoor is a realist. He prays that he’ll be given the gift of beauty, not talent, in his ‘next birth’

An anomaly in Scorsese’s oeuvre of mean dystopias, this is his dreamlike tribute to cinema

Director Dibakar Banerjee on the politics of his films, his commitment to cinema as an art form and why he can’t bear to watch his own films

Subhash Ghai wants his show to go on. Never mind his surfeit of flops as a filmmaker and the iffiness of his film school’s survival

How an unassuming film, with a small star cast and not-yet-famous music composer, became the mother of all musicals and a precursor to Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar