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‘NOT MAKING FILMS ISN’T THE END OF LIFE’

Sunday 30 March '08

After penning peppy songs such as Beedi Jalaile and Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, master lyricist Gulzar has returned to story-telling. Except this time he is writing novels based on his films
‘Breaking into Hollywood is difficult’

Sunday 23 March '08

With close to 100 international films in his kitty, Ashok Amritraj film producer and former tennis player, handles our volley of questions on his reality show, Chinese actors, the Academy awards’ voting system and making it big in Hollywood
Old-world charm

Sunday 16 March '08

Veteran ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas likes to keep his space traditional and still uses his 20-year-old walkman
THE GAG GANG

Monday 25 February '08

The Bheja Fry team has come up with another smart film, Mithya. We catch up with director Rajat Kapoor, Ranvir Shorey (who plays the lead in the film) and Vinay Pathak for a midnight chat on their films, chemistry, humour and—why Mughal-e-Azam is a comedy
The Movie Mughals

Friday 15 February '08

Though Hindi cinema often sourced its narratives from Indian history...
'ACTORS ARE LIKE VAGABONDS’

Sunday 10 February '08

Ash on playing princess, crossing over and the chemistry with Hrithik
‘Why can’t Nagesh Kukunoor too have some fun?’

Sunday 3 February '08

Shreyas Talpade is gearing up for another common man’s role in Shyam Benegal’s next film Mahadev. Independent cinema’s latest poster-boy talks about juggling directors and insists that there’s more to him than comedy
Empire city

Sunday 3 February '08

Once the nub of powerful kingdoms, Ujjain hugs its past and piety as it walks into the future
India’s Oscar drill

Sunday 27 January '08

Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s opulent Eklavya: The Royal Guard made that little trip to and back from the Oscars. But that’s now an annual practice — Indian films are routinely sent to the Oscars, without much success.
‘You can see the Amar Chitra Katha in my Akbar and Jodhaa’

Sunday 20 January '08

The man who gave us Lagaan and Swades has re-imagined history to spin a love story. Ashutosh Gowariker on Jodhaa Akbar, historicals and the distraction of Fridays
'My film will be more powerful than SRK’s’

Sunday 13 January '08

His latest film may not even be a week old, but director Rajkumar Santoshi is already in the thick of two mega projects –a Gladiator-like historical on emperor Ashok and an epic retelling of Ramayan
FROM SIR WITH LOVE

Sunday 13 January '08

The man who wrote Taare Zameen Par, a note of sanity in the noise of competition, is more than a low-profile writer. Amole Gupte is that rare being—a teacher in love with childhood
Making pictures speak

Sunday 6 January '08

He’s the animation director of only the second full-length animation film to be made entirely in India. Upendraa Desai on the Return of Hanuman, his craft and his favourite creations
DEBUT

Sunday 23 December '07

This year, five new playback singers sang their way to the top of the charts. You hummed their songs in the middle of traffic muddles and turned up the volume when their fresh voices filled the airwaves. We bring you the crooners who were music to your ears
‘I won’t make a show I can’t sit and watch’

Sunday 9 December '07

Actor, producer, anchor and now a film director. Rohit Roy makes his debut with a casting coup—Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi are back on screen after a gap of nearly two decades in his short movie in Dus Kahaniyaan
‘Bollywood is not such a terrible place’

Sunday 2 December '07

A filmmaker who stands out from the crowd, a storyteller with a difference. Sudhir Mishra on his new film Khoya Khoya Chand, Guru Dutt and the allure of Mumbai
Writer’s block

Sunday 25 November '07

This small office in north Mumbai is where Madhur Bhandarkar has written all his scripts
‘Bai TV rules today’

Sunday 18 November '07

Yes, you heard it right. The quizmaster has waded into the murky waters of soap operas—Jiya Jale is Siddharth Basu’s production house Synergy Adlabs’ daily on INX Media. Basu spoke to eye on what took him there, the spectacle that is Indian television, his favourite serials and the forthcoming desi quiz show on Sahara One–Bollywood Ka Boss
Calling the shots

Sunday 18 November '07

‘Theatre’s like sex’, ‘Besharmi theatre ka janm siddh adhikar hai’. Blunt and incisive, almost with an intention to shock. That’s Satyadev Dubey, the man who has lived the medium for over five decades
Notes from the seafront

Sunday 11 November '07

Watched by the sea, in a room free of clutter and furniture, Rahul Sharma coaxes harmony out of his santoor
Smoking GUN

Sunday 21 October '07

Only Anurag Kashyap can be plucky enough to get John Abraham and Ranvir Shorey to play 12-year-olds in No Smoking and then call the scene his tribute to saas-bahu serials
BAVRA MANN

Sunday 14 October '07

His songs brought a certain freshness to Bollywood when it was struggling to think beyond clichés. Swanand Kirkire, lyricist of Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Parineeta, Lage Raho Munnabhai and Laaga Chunari Mein Daag, talks about the inspiration behind his poetry
Ramparts of gloom

Sunday 14 October '07

In Janjira, a sea fort that till Independence fought off invasions by the Marathas and the British, watch nature take on the unconquered one
And the entry for Oscars should be...

Thursday 4 October '07

The ‘big fight’ involving Bhavna Talwar, director of Dharm, and the Film Federation of India-nominated jury that selected the official Indian...
SON SHINE

Sunday 30 September '07

An actor, a musician, a regular guy. And with the release of his first big film Dil Dosti Etc, Imaad Shah, son of Naseeruddin Shah, is hoping he gets the critics talking
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