The mythology of India’s most saleable cultural icon is built on popular catharsis and emotional kitsch
Shah Rukh Khan dissects fame and success and confesses that many chapters of his life remain closed to all
Suchitra Sen signified the acme of modernity to the Bengali middle-class of the 1950s and 1960s playing characters who speak English with apparent ease, wear chic clothes, and have careers which they usually choose to put on hold. She was not an actress; her greatest performance was in playing herself: Suchitra Sen, the luminous superstar. And with her reclusiveness, she cannily created a legend of herself
Dilip Kumar turned 90 on 11 December. The legend and lore of perhaps the greatest Indian actor ever
From the dizzying heights of stardom to the depths of despair, the Rajesh Khanna story is unsurpassable
The secret of Rajini’s mass appeal is that he’s a true celluloid hero, not a multiplex megabrand like Shah Rukh or the latter-day Amitabh.
Those who try to understand his extraordinary fame are wasting their time.