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Diptakirti Chaudhuri
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Book excerpt: Why some detectives in Hindi films are ‘clueless’
Several movie gumshoes stumble and bumble about, but some actually manage to solve their cases.
Diptakirti Chaudhuri
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When Javed told Salim, ‘I was thinking that maybe we should work separately’
A new book speculates on why Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar split after a writing partnership that created some of the most iconic Hindi movies of the 1970s.
Diptakirti Chaudhuri
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What ails Bollywood? The big five movie diseases
Cancer tops the list, AIDS is at the bottom.
Diptakirti Chaudhuri
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