Stories written by

Sidharth Bhatia

‘Most wretched, boring and amateurish hotch-potch’: Meet Baburao Patel, pioneering film journalist

An excerpt from Sidharth Bhatia’s 'The Patels of Filmindia: Pioneers of Indian Journalism', an account of the movie magazine run by Baburao and Sushila Rani Patel for 50 years.

Sidharth Bhatia
· Jun 13, 2015 · 11:30 am
[Video] It’s all happening in the Bollywood nightclub

Welcome to club class, where criminals hunch over sweating drinks and cards, wanton women parade their wares, and Indian morals and inhibition are bid goodbye.

Sidharth Bhatia
· May 11, 2015 · 01:00 pm
Amitabh Bachchan: Bollywood superstar, India’s soft power icon...and rescuer of Egypt’s tourism?

Both Indian and Egyptian governments hope to benefit from the Indian actor’s recent appearance at a festival in Cairo.

Sidharth Bhatia
· Apr 09, 2015 · 10:30 am

Video

The Reel

Magazine