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‘A CRORE? I CHARGE MORE’

Sunday 7 September '08

Irrfan Khan gets candid about doing commercial films, his favourite co-stars and his hefty fees
SMALL SCREEN, THE BIG BOSS

Sunday 31 August '08

From politicians to molls, Bollywood stars to stand-up comics, reality television is the launch pad for a million ambitions
THE ONE SHOW

Sunday 24 August '08

Prahlad Kakkar says it’s difficult to remember even the funniest commercials but the message which introduced Macintosh remains a masterpiece
Kahaani Ek TV Serial Kiii

Sunday 17 August '08

It’s a mad, mad world. The script changes with the weather, the make-up gets louder. And the clock is the biggest master. We spent a day with small screen vamp Kamya Punjabi for a glimpse of how the soap factory works
A serial for all time

Sunday 3 August '08

Actor Aanjjan Srivastav speaks of how Buniyaad laid the foundation for good story-telling on television
ON A SONG

Sunday 27 July '08

He has remade classics and spun GenNext’s first cult film. And now, Farhan Akhtar—singer, actor, director—gets ready with a new act
The complete ALBUM

Sunday 20 July '08

There’s a gem in every song of the 1961 classic Hum Dono, says Shankar Mahadevan
‘HOW ABOUT A FILM ON AWARD POLITICS?’

Sunday 13 July '08

After scoring a hat-trick at the National Awards, Madhur Bhandarkar, long ignored by the powerful camps of Bollywood, is vindicated. He looks ahead with movies about ramps and prisons
Roti, Kapada and Film

Sunday 6 July '08

Film director Kunal Kohli on why the theme of the film, Roti, Kapada aur Makaan is timeless
OUR FILMS THEIR DREAMS

Sunday 29 June '08

The mean streets of Mumbai host a new breed of strugglers—second-generation actors from US and Finland, The Netherlands and UAE, who have left their worlds in the hope of storming Bollywood
‘BOX OFFICE WISDOM DOESN’T WORK’

Sunday 22 June '08

Aamir, a film made by newcomers on a shoestring budget, took the steam out of Sarkar Raj, awed critics and showed that the good story rules. A chat with debutant director Raj Kumar Gupta, the latest outsider to rewrite the Bollywood formula
‘I am still hungry for great scripts’

Sunday 8 June '08

Om Puri hasn’t mellowed down. We talk to the new NFDC chairman on his hunger for better work, playing Zia-ul-Haq and his first item number.
THE PHOREN HANDS

Sunday 8 June '08

The best of the world’s technical talent is here at the biggest film bazaar, spicing up our masala stories with special effects and action. We look at Bollywood’s crossover crew
‘I’m all for seduction. Bring it on’

Sunday 1 June '08

Riding high on the screening of her film Rang Rasiya at Cannes, Nandana Sen talks about her upcoming projects and what it is to be Amartya Sen’s daughter in Bollywood
Dream factory

Sunday 1 June '08

Omung and Vanita Kumar Khandula look at Monalisa while designing their extravagant Bollywood sets
‘ONLY I HAVE DONE FULL NUDITY IN INDIA’

Sunday 25 May '08

An idealist, a RAW agent, a municipal sweeper, a schoolteacher and a horny villager, 20-film old ‘superstar of Indian art house cinema’—that’s what Time magazine called him—Rahul Bose is raring to direct his second film after seven years
Platter perfect

Sunday 18 May '08

300 dishes an hour, buying fish at dawn and getting the hue of a dish right is what chef Chetan Sethi does best
The knotty PLOT

Sunday 18 May '08

In her latest play, Lilette Dubey takes on a Girish Karnad text for the first time and shows the audience how “weddings divide families”
‘I have no interest in anyone’s career except mine’

Sunday 11 May '08

He has apologised to Big B and warmed up to Karan Johar. He says Aishwarya can act. And after Sarkar Raj and Contract, a sober Ram Gopal Varma is making another Sholay.
‘Every known person comes with a price tag’

Sunday 4 May '08

At 60, Shobhaa De looks forward to a “crowded, productive and exciting decade”
Music in a metro

Sunday 4 May '08

Pritam Chakraborty’s space also reflects his temperament – calm and collected
‘In many ways, Pakistanis are more tolerant'

Tuesday 22 April '08

Shoaib Mansoor's Khuda Kay Liye is the first Pakistani film to release in India in 43 years.
The Big B Gallery

Sunday 20 April '08

A big chunk of space in Aadesh Shrivastava’s studio in Juhu is devoted to his favourite star
‘I’m not a textbook. I’d rather be a novel’

Sunday 13 April '08

He’s never been pinned down to stereotypes and is now set to play 10 characters in one film. Kamal Haasan on acting, awards and politics.
SEEDS OF SUCCESS

Sunday 13 April '08

His debut film Tingya is the toast of the festival circuit and headed for Cannes this summer. For Mangesh Hadawale—a farmer’s son and a one-man theatre troupe—this is just the beginning.
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