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Drama Queen
Array Ekta Kapoor There are stories about Ekta Kapoor and there is the story of Ekta Kapoor. Here, in a chapter from her book Death in Mumbai, Meenal Baghel profiles India’s most well-known TV...
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Farah Khan was born into a film family. Her father lost everything, making movies that did not do well. They were poor and isolated overnight and the family fell apart. But Farah held on to her dark...
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“A European journalistic point of view.”
Array Hamed Alizadeh A still from Checkpoint A still from A Time Called Oldness Voices from Afar is a series of interviews with filmmakers and film professionals, critics and experts from various...
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Irani Chai, Cinema Afghani
Array Siddiq Barmak Poster of Osama A screenshot from Osama A screenshot from Osama A screenshot from Osama Voices from Afar is a series of interviews with filmmakers and film professionals, critics...
View ArticleEye of the Beholder: Atul Dodiya
54 year old artist Atul Dodiya was, in 1977, in a fix as to whether he should pursue art or films because “they were both intense passions”. He chose art. The boy who was “brought up on old Guru Dutt...
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EVERGREEN
Array Original artwork for TBIP by poster and portrait artist Ramakant Fadte. On Dev Anand’s second death anniversary, Sidharth Bhatia writes about India’s longest lasting star who changed cinema...
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Lovely and Bright with Soft Curls
Array DVD case cover of Small Wonder Poster for Small Wonder A screenshot from Small Wonder A still from Friends A Span cover A Soviet Life cover A still from Mahanagar A still from Mahanagar Nakul...
View ArticleSiddharth Roy Kapur – TBIP Tête-à-Tête
The Hindi film industry has changed beyond recognition in the last five years and to get a proper sense of this change one has to go behind the scenes and look at how movies are produced now. At the...
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Friends and Lovers
Array Sahir and Amrita Pritam: A relationship which was defined largely by silence. Image courtesy: Imroz Sahir (L) and Yash Chopra (R):Friends for life. Sahir worked as lyricist on each of Yash's...
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‘The rest is history.’
“Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of acting that matters.” —Seneca, Roman Philosopher, mid-1st century CE. For our year end upload we bring you actors from the past few...
View ArticleAyushmann Khurrana – TBIP Tête-à-Tête
Ayushmann Khurrana, Bollywood Class of 2012, is one of those bright young actors that makes us feel hopeful about the Hindi film industry. Talented, dapper, hard-working, sorted, he has done theatre,...
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Cine Mexicano
Array Luis Salinas Poster of Año Bisiesto Poster of Nos vemos, papá Poster of La Jaula de Oro A still from La Jaula de Oro Voices from Afar is a series of interviews with filmmakers and film...
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Brillante!
Array Brillante Mendoza Poster of Serbis A still from Kinatay Voices from Afar is a series of interviews with filmmakers and film professionals, critics and experts from various countries around the...
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Maximus Minimus
Array Maximon Monihan Poster of La Voz De Los Silenciados A still from La Voz De Los Silenciados (C) James Garrett III A still from La Voz De Los Silenciados (C) James Garrett III A still from La Voz...
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Winter of Content
Array Julian Pölsler, Image : Manfred Werner (CC-BY-SA 3.0) Poster of The Wall (Die Wand) A still from The Wall A still from The Wall A still from The Wall (c) Mizerovsky/ Music Box Films Voices from...
View ArticleSooni Taraporevala – TBIP Tête-à-Tête
Sooni Taraporevala, 56, grew up in a large Parsi family in South Bombay, leading a fairly regular life until the day she found out she had been accepted to study in Harvard University as an...
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The Costumer Cometh
Array Mannequin at the Maganlal Dresswalla workshop Mannequin with props for hire Masks and head gears rented, waiting to be picked up Sewing machine of one of the tailors who custom make clothes and...
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The Big Fight
Array Poster of Jhinder Bondi Uttam Kumar and Soumitra Chatterjee fighting against each other in Jhinder Bondi, via Beth Watkins A screenshot from Devdas Uttam Kumar in Jhinder Bondi Uttam Kumar in...
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Rani Pink
Array A still from Gulabi Gang A still from Gulabi Gang A still from Gulabi Gang Nishtha Jain Nishtha Jain’s documentary, Gulabi Gang, is about a group of rural women in Uttar Pradesh who fight for...
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Eye of the Beholder: Zoë Heller
Array Zoe Heller | Kavi Bhansali for The Big Indian Picture Poster of Notes On A Scandal A still from Notes On A Scandal A still from Notes On A Scandal New York based English writer and journalist...
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