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Diptakirti Chaudhuri

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
· May 02, 2021 · 08:45 am
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
· Nov 01, 2015 · 01:30 pm
What ails Bollywood? The big five movie diseases

Cancer tops the list, AIDS is at the bottom.

Diptakirti Chaudhuri
· Oct 19, 2014 · 03:30 am