Bollywood

Shuffling the Deck

Rajeev Masand

Shuffling the Deck • Match Fixing • The Miserly Megastar

On Top of the World

Madhavankutty Pillai

The unusual filmmakers of Ladakh

What Bollywood Must Do

Saadat Hasan Manto

Indian filmmaking needs not just a surge of originality, it needs to rethink every aspect of the art it is failing to be

“I don’t view cinema as a high art form”

Nikhil Taneja

Imran Khan grows himself up as an actor through trial, error and humour

‘Most urban people don’t know where they belong’

Manoj Bajpai

Though I was born in Belwa, a small village in Bihar near the Indo-Nepal border, I was packed off to a boarding school in Bettiah after class four.

The Other Khan

Lhendup G Bhutia

An encounter with a Bollywood wannabe

The Invisible Legacy of ‘Art Films’

Shaikh Ayaz

Parallel cinema of the 1970s and 80s remains influential in Bollywood though chances are you will not notice it

In the Beginning There is an Opening Scene

Ruchi Sawardekar

After Aamir and No One Killed Jessica, Raj Kumar Gupta’s third film, Ghanchakkar, is going to hit the screens in June. While the earlier films were hard-hitting gritty fares, Ghanchakkar is a darkly humorous, quirky entertainer. Gupta speaks about realism, changing genres, working style, creative process and his evolution as a filmmaker