India’s oldest film industry basks in critical acclaim and newfound power
24 May 2018At the back of our minds is always this looming fear for his future...What’s in store for Salman?, says his father Salim Khan
09 July 2014India’s avant-garde filmmakers recommend world cinema classics that shaped them
12 June 2014Uninterested in acting theory, indifferent to stardom—Vijay Raaz is a Bollywood anomaly
24 March 2014The enduring appeal of Jaaved Jaaferi, arguably India’s first celebrity dancer and standup comic, who is back with yet another season of Boogie Woogie
20 February 2014Jimmy Shergill has not given up just yet. His acclaimed performances in Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster I and II and Bullett Raja may revive his Hindi cinema career—or so he hopes
01 February 2014Leading man and the hero’s best friend in the early 1990s, Pandey went to Bangladesh when his career was on a decline and became a superstar. In the past couple of years, Pandey has made his way back to A-list Bollywood, albeit with silly films
26 December 2013Atul Dodiya’s work is replete with influences and references. But it also raises critical questions about how we see art
12 December 2013Prabhudheva’s journey from southern dance sensation to hit actor to one of Bollywood’s most wanted directors
12 December 2013CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 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 is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm