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Art & Culture
The Loneliest Superstar Ever

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

23 June 2012
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Cinema
Department

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

27 May 2012
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Cinema
Ishaqzaade

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

17 May 2012
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Cinema
The Artiste Who Will Never be a Star

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

08 May 2012
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Cinema
Hugo

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

08 May 2012
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Cinema
The Dibakarian Way of Life

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

04 May 2012
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Art & Culture
Not the Final Whistle Yet

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

21 April 2012
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Cinema
Sixty Years of Baiju Bawra

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

18 April 2012
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Art & Culture
Unmade in Pakistan

Parodies of Indian blockbusters are a rage across the border

11 April 2012
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Cinema
When Bond-meets-Bourne-meets-Johny

Agent Vinod director Sriram Raghavan on his obsession with rewriting and the influence of Hitchcock and Vijay Anand on his film

25 March 2012

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma 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

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

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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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