The effort to dramatise Imran Khan’s hygiene obsession, the trouble with sparse scenes and how director Shakun Batra tried keeping it real

This is cinema that can make a masochist wince. So how come it is acquiring fans who know—or ought to know—good cinema from bad?

From Raza to Husain to the leader of the Bombay Progressives, FN Souza, nobody really knew what modern art or modernity was. It was Paris and its influences that gave their amorphous ideas a sense of form and identity

Time was when filmmakers valued the feedback of independent film distributors and would even make changes on their request. Now the very existence of this tribe is under threat

He has neither the looks nor the genes to back him, but Emraan Hashmi is quietly and surefootedly climbing his way up with one hit after another

Kareena Kapoor looks close to being paid on par with male film stars, but if you see this as a sign of a shakeup in the Hindi film industry’s salary structure, think again

Actor Ashok Kumar wore many hats in his life, including those of a painter of nudes and master homeopath

Salim Khan on his superstar son not realising his true acting potential, his hyphenated relationship with Javed Akhtar, and his ‘mother love’

Ali Akbar Mehta is nervous about his first solo show. There’s the added pressure of being Tyeb Mehta’s grandson

Fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee and his idea of Indianness

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…