Book Excerpt
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When salaries were Rs 60, mutton cost nine annas, and the living was easy
Vandana Mishra
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How Emraan Hashmi got off the couch and into the movies
Emraan Hashmi
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz on cinema: Its real purpose, like all art, is to reflect human life
Ali Madeeh Hashmi
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What Delhi has lost with the closure of the Ritz cinema
Ziya Us Salam
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Pancake, poetry and Stephen Spender – never a dull moment at Gemini Studios
Ashokamitran
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Rafi vs Talat vs Mukesh vs Kishore: the big rivalries of the Hindi film music world
Dhirendra Jain and Raju Korti
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From the Kapoors to the Puris, the famous residents of Mumbai’s ‘Hollywood Lane’
Kamlesh Puri
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Can you make love in 11 seconds and other tales from a film critic’s stint with the Censor Board
Mayank Shekhar
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Shammi Kapoor on music: ‘It gave me a better kick than booze’
Rauf Ahmed
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Suchitra Sen, the Bengali superstar known as ‘Sir’
Shoma Chatterji
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What recession when there is Rajinikanth? How the Tamil superstar added Japan to his conquests with ‘Muthu’
Naman Ramachandran
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‘Whatever could go wrong, went wrong’: Ram Gopal Varma gets candid about his reviled ‘Sholay’ tribute
Ram Gopal Varma
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How KA Abbas gave Amitabh Bachchan his big break in ‘Saat Hindustani’
Khwaja Ahmed Abbas
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How Smita Patil put gravitas into the gravy
Maithili Rao
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Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s sex film that wasn’t: ‘Sabse Bada Sukh’
Jai Arjun Singh