Sunday 23 September '07
He’s made Zeenat swing, Helen sway and taught Kamala Hasan and Govinda a step or two. Now veteran choreographer Oscar is back to work in Sudhir Mishra’s new filmSunday 9 September '07
Bollywood is on the lookout for its next diva. The hunt could end with these four young women: Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor, Asin Thottumkal and Ferena WazierSunday
26 August '07Stepping into Big B’s shoes couldn’t have been easy. But a bit of insouciance does help when the order is tall. Prashant Raj, Ramu’s Jai, exudes oodles of it as he awaits D-daySunday
19 August '07They came from places that were on the fringes of India’s popular music map. And now, riding the wave of TV talent hunts, these voices from the Northeast and the east are reverberating across the length and breadth of the countrySunday
19 August '07They came from all parts of India. Some were professional players, others held a hockey stick for the first time when shooting for the film. Meet the squad that makes up India’s latest sporting dramaSunday
12 August '07Making great music comes easy to Nitin Sawhney. After the haunting score for The Namesake, the British musician has composed for a 1929 silent film, Prapancha Pash. eye spoke to him on politics, his inspiration and fave Indian actors.Sunday
29 July '07In her latest ghazal album, Saadgi, the inimitable Lata Mangeshkar has simplified the ageless musical form for easier mass consumption. In a freewheeling interview, she throws light on the experiment and what it really portendsSunday
15 July '07Meet the dubbing artists who have lent their voices to five principal characters in the latest Potter film, Harry Potter Aur Phoenix Ki FaujSunday
24 June '07From spicing up saas-bahu soaps to chronicling broken city lives (Life in a Metro), Anurag Basu has always been one for breaking the mould. The successful director on sex and the city, making music and his return to television with Love StorySunday
17 June '07From a carrot-crunching detective to a doctor driven by passion, he has essayed roles that have never faded from our minds. After Maqbool, Pankaj Kapur is back with another meaty role in DharmSunday
3 June '07When nasal singers with baseball caps rant on talent hunts, he reaches out to audiences with trademark wit and elegance. Poet Javed Akhtar on his new avatar as a judge on the Indian Idol show, Ram Gopal Varma’s retake on a classic he wrote and his new projectsSunday
27 May '07The big banners had mega bucks and star power. They had wafer-thin budgets and one weapon—the smart, well-told story. And they won. Eye spoke to the successful filmmakers who have changed the idiom of Bollywood and asked them: what makes small big?Sunday
29 April '07After cinema, the cliché has hijacked the storyboard. We pick out the worst formulas that the ad world inflicts on you. They’ve been done to death. It’s time they were buriedSaturday
7 April '07It’s a war out there. As the television industry gains financial muscle and players fight for a share of the pie, camps are the obvious fallout. The emerging cliques are a sign of TV’s growing power.Sunday
1 April '07She’s had enough of saas and bahus. Smriti Iraani is now playing herself a woman on the move and breaking out of another mould. The actress on SRK, work and the seven-year-itch.Sunday
1 April '07Raj Kapoor didn’t make a movie without spending hours here. Step into the furniture shop in south Mumbai which continues to give Bollywood some of its greatest frames.Sunday
25 March '07As mira nair’s The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s sensitive tale exploring the issues of identity through three decades in the lives of a Bengali family that moves to New York in the 1970s, releases this week, here’s a look at forthcoming Indian celluloid adaptations of novels and stories in various stages of production or completion.Sunday
18 March '07They’re funny, irreverent and pushing the envelope of political incorrectness. TV’s band of informed buffoons is changing the way we look at news events.Saturday
17 March '07Last-minute cancellations at festival, which has directors like Kashyap and Mishra as consultants and aims to show global cinemaSaturday
10 March '07As year-long celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Alam Ara, the first Indian talkie, draw to a close this week, eye pays homage to the great unifier that is Bollywood music. Part surreal entertainment, part social reality and transcending all barriers, it has come to be representative not just of our movies but also of us.Sunday
4 March '07Now that Sacred Games has hits the stands worldwide, Vikram Chandra is looking to Bollywood. Aamir, he says, will make a good GaitondeSunday
4 March '07The bad woman is TV’s latest crush. From neurotic Ramola Sikand to corporate witch Adira Dharnajgir, black is the colour to beSunday
18 February '07Is King Khan the new Big B? The jury is still out on that one, but is there a new Smita Patil? Who’s the new Serial Kisser? Though comparisons are usually audacious, it’s true that celebs, like history, seem to repeat themselves. Here’s a list of worthy inheritors to some celebrated titles.Sunday
4 February '07Where there is a reality show or contest, there has to be a crowd. Meet TV’s new extras, the people who applaud every emotional outburst or wannable celeb actSunday
28 January '07Sometimes, everybody cries. But ever noticed that everytime you’ve switched on your TV of late, whether it’s soaps or reality shows, everybody seems to be crying all the time?
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