Book excerpt
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Then and now: How a movie star dealt with a bad marriage and prying eyes
Mekhala Sengupta
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The bit about Parveen Babi that you won’t find in the UG Krishnamurti biography
Nicolas C Grey James Farley
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Censoring ‘Fire’, ‘Zakhm’ and ‘Elizabeth’: Asha Parekh on her stormy stint as censor board chief
Asha Parekh
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When Sivagami wanted to destroy Mahishmathi: The ‘Baahubali’ character gets a back story
Anand Neelakantan
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Manmohan Desai on what made his films so funny: ‘Gags, nonsense’
Connie Haham
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Flashback: The beginnings of India’s dazzling space programme
Amrita Shah
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Los Angeles, 1975. Lata Mangeshkar takes the stage. Deafening applause
Mohan Deora Rachana Shah
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Karan Johar on making ‘films about rich and frivolous things that don’t matter’
Karan Johar
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Why the flops ‘Dil Se’ and ‘Johnny Gadaar’ were game-changers for Bollywood
Shubhra Gupta
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Before he fought the world, ‘Dangal’ inspiration Mahavir Singh Phogat battled his family
Saurabh Duggal
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Shyam Benegal’s ‘Ankur’ and the beginning of a film movement
Sangeeta Datta
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Smita Patil as a child: Mischievous, adventurous, emotional and an excellent mimic
Maithili Rao
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‘I’m your Janice’: How Dev Anand cast Zeenat Aman in ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’
Dev Anand
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PC Barua was the original Devdas, on and off the screen
Shoma Chatterji
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When Dara Singh faced the greatest bout of his life and battled the Emergency and rowdy mobs
Seema Sonik Alimchand
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The unspoken passion of Sahir Ludhianvi and Amrita Pritam
Akshay Manwani
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‘There was no mustard to be found’ and other heartaches from the ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ shoot
Anupama Chopra
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‘Chandni’ turned around Yash Chopra’s fortunes, but he initially called it a ‘suicide attempt’
Rachel Dwyer
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Before the hit, the hiccups: what kind of a title is ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’ anyway?
Gautam Chintamani
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How Nasir Husain saw the nightclub as a fun spot rather than a vice den
Akshay Manwani