Cinema

Memories of Our Own Porn

Lhendup G Bhutia

Miss Lovely began as a documentary project but director Ashim Ahluwalia had to drop the idea when his contacts refused to speak on camera. The story behind a film set in India’s C-grade smut industry

Dedh Ishqiya

Ajit Duara

The dead genre of the ‘Muslim social’ has been revived to deliver a smart sequel

An Early Exit

Divya Unny

Farooq Sheikh’s leading ladies on their fond memories of the charismatic actor

The Madhuri Mantra

Shradha Sukumaran

Madhuri Dixit claims she is boring and non-controversial in her real life but does not mind boldness in her roles. That is what drew her to Dedh Ishqiya

The Wolf of Wall Street

Ajit Duara

So good is its craftsmanship and acting that its lack of meaning is forgivable

The Second Life of Chunky Pandey

Shaikh Ayaz

Leading 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