Cinema
The Artist
Ajit Duara
Never mind all those Oscars. This film is cute, not great. And the dog is the real Best Actor
Saeed Mirza Is Still an Angry Man
The director of the seminal Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai on his career as a novelist, the West’s racist ideas and why he found films “very limiting”
That 70s Showman
Milan Luthria, director of The Dirty Picture, on his fear of beginnings, love of dark characters and favourite Bollywood era
A Kapoor by Chance
Rishi is the least Kapoor-like of the Kapoors: shorn of the family mannerisms and preoccupation with their image. Now, on the eve of turning 60, he is getting the roles of a lifetime and relishing them too
Reality Check for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
The effort to dramatise Imran Khan’s hygiene obsession, the trouble with sparse scenes and how director Shakun Batra tried keeping it real
J Edgar
Clint Eastwood studies the twisted mind of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s first director
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