Book Excerpt
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When Lisa Ray auditioned for a James Bond film: ‘What am I doing here?’
Lisa Ray
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Kababs, kulfis, qormas: Forgotten recipes from Shah Jahan’s kitchens get a second life in this book
Salma Yusuf Husain
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How sensational interviews and photo shoots fuelled Sanjay Dutt’s bad-boy image
Ram Kamal Mukherjee
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How SD Burman became as famous as the singers he worked with despite his thin, nasally voice
HQ Chowdhury
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When a ‘trembling’ VVS Laxman was made to stand on a chair and address his teammates ahead of debut
VVS Laxman
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A nose for crime: How a Mumbai cop solved the kidnap of ‘Shakti’ producer Mushir Alam
Isaque Bagwan
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That time when Priyanka Chopra nearly gave it all up and decided to return to Bareilly
Bharathi S Pradhan
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As the ball-tampering saga plays on, a look back at a grey area in the history of Indian cricket
Boria Majumdar
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The night-time gunshots that put Sanjay Dutt’s life on the mend
Yasser Usman
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Raj Kapoor: ‘I dream cinema, I breathe cinema and I live cinema’
Ritu Nanda
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The real cultural product of India’s new economy? It’s not Bollywood but the dance reality show
Pallabi Chakravorty
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The ‘magical mystery tour’ that was Satyajit Ray’s ‘Shatranj Ke Khilari’
Suresh Jindal
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A house for Kangana Ranaut: The message behind the actor’s property deals in Mumbai
Chandrima Pal
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‘A new dawn in Indian cricket’: Remembering Sachin Tendulkar’s iconic Ranji Trophy debut
Rajdeep Sardesai
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Camera and action: The Soumendu Roy-Satyajit Ray teamwork that produced some of our greatest films
Devapriya Sanyal
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‘Pink’ revisited: The anatomy of the ‘No means no’ scene, and the original ending
Gautam Chintamani
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Acting guru Roshan Taneja on the students who disproved the belief that ‘actors are born, not made’
Roshan Taneja
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Behind the MGR seduction, an image as carefully scripted as his films
R Kannan
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The rise and rise of Arun Gawli, the son of a mill worker and the terror of Byculla
S Hussain Zaidi
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The seven-foot tall monster and the Scream Queen who made the Ramsay horror films memorable
Shamya Dasgupta