cinema

Sunset on Khan Market?

Kaveree Bamzai

After three decades of entertaining India and the diaspora, the era of Bollywood’s reigning trinity seems to be fading out

Discovering India

Kaveree Bamzai

Bhediya can help put the beautiful Arunachal Pradesh on the map of the world

The Indian Dirty Harrys in Khaki

Aditya Mani Jha

Cop out

Hard Truths

Kaveree Bamzai

Neena Gupta’s memoir is about persistence, patience and the ability to pick up the pieces

Bollywood Family Values

Kaveree Bamzai

Blended families, co-parenting by exes, single parent surrogacies and households headed by women. Middle-class cosmopolitan social norms and celebrity values have never been more similar

Dilip Kumar (1922-2021): The Original

Kaveree Bamzai

With the flicker of an eyelash, an artfully displaced lock of hair, a careful modulation of his voice, he could make women swoon and men weep. Muhammed Yusuf Khan was the last of a gilded trinity that defined an era

From India with a Dream

Bhaichand Patel

Desi actors of another era who had made it big in Hollywood

Business Class Bollywood

Kaveree Bamzai

A $3 trillion economy does not have a substantial middle class that spends, which means the model of film consumption today is business class

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?

Pan Nalin: The Return of the Native

Prahlad Srihari

Pan Nalin left his home in Gir Forest to pursue filmmaking. With his new movie, an elegy to a lost era of celluloid magic, he returns to Kathiawad. Prahlad Srihari in conversation with the director