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A Day with Imran Khan

Aastha Atray Banan

And all that it reveals of the man behind the star

The Survival Skills of Randeep Hooda

Shaikh Ayaz

Finally enjoying some success, the actor had at one point decided to give it all up, even movies, for equestrian pursuits

The Artiste Who Will Never be a Star

Shaikh Ayaz

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

Bollywood’s Funny Guy

Aastha Atray Banan

Ranvir Shorey on the futility of being a good actor and why he will always remain an underdog in the film industry

Ashok Kumar: The Evergreen Hero

Saadat Hasan Manto

On Ashok Kumar’s birth centenary, we bring you an excerpt from Saadat Hasan Manto’s brutally honest essay on his friend and colleague.

Importance of being Earnest

Satyen K Bordoloi

Who wants to be a hero? Not Deepak Dobriyal. Playing convincing characters, he says, is challenging enough

A Tamilian in Bollywood

TCA Sharad Raghavan

Actor Madhavan on his harmless stalker, weight issues and sexy vegetarians

The Logic of John Abraham

Madhavankutty Pillai

Almost every male supermodel who tried his luck in Bollywood ended up as a character artiste. John Abraham proved an exception because he did things others just wouldn’t

For the lead role in Gulaal, Raj Singh Chaudhary, a brawny former model, played a wimpy, nerdy student. After years of struggle, Raj shot to the limelight with the movie’s success. And then suddenly, Bollywood was asking him to play the exact same character over and over again.