Alia Bhatt

Losers, Gamblers, and Great Men

Kaveree Bamzai

A young polo-playing prince, an England-returned lawyer who finds his political voice, a quick-witted underworld boss with an irresistible smile—some of the characters promising to enthral India

Vasan Bala’s Weird Worlds

Kaveree Bamzai

The director’s latest film is an ode to the cinema of the 1980s and the misfits who loved it

Gagan Dev Riar: Not Asking for Much

Kaveree Bamzai

There’s no shortage of offers though

The Kings and Queens of Mumbai

Rachel Dwyer

Will Hindi films return to form this year?

Is There Anything Alia Bhatt Can’t Do?

Kaveree Bamzai

She has delivered a solo Rs 100-crore hit, turned producer with a new Netflix movie, and completed a Hollywood project

How Dynasties Rule Bollywood

Kaveree Bamzai

A marriage brings out the clan power in the Hindi film industry

Dysfunctionally Functional

Kaveree Bamzai

What seems progressive in one era may well seem retrograde in another

Every Woman’s a Tigress

Kaveree Bamzai

For Indian movies, these are still radical ideas, and who better than Balan, in her unsmiling, solitary alter ego, to articulate them?

Atmanirbhar Heroes

Kaveree Bamzai

Mirroring the flourishing genre of Indian epic fiction in literature, the film industry hopes to bring to the big screen these made-in-India offerings