Karan Johar

‘Fear can rule families more than love,’ says Karan Johar

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Karan Johar speaks about shades of love and his new blockbuster

When a Deol Marries a Roy

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Keeping the Bengali sensibilities alive

The Cult of Stupidity

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Since almost everyone in Bollywood has decided to not talk about politics or culture, Karan Johar has decided to make the most of it

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

Every Woman’s a Tigress

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

Atmanirbhar Heroes

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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

Broken Bollywood

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Divided, self-referential in its storytelling, all too keen to celebrate mediocrity, its reputation in tatters and work largely stalled, the Mumbai film industry has hit rock bottom