cinema

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