Book excerpt
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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
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Pakistani writers are expected to represent their country – and maybe they don't have a choice
Mushtaq Bilal
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The exact moment when film star Rekha became a villain in vermilion (and it wasn’t in ‘Silsila’)
Yasser Usman
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The things that used to happen at Mumbai parties (and it’s not very different now)
Ajith Pillai
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What happened when Draupadi visited New Delhi with her girlfriends
Trisha Das
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Gulzar: ‘Words should amaze or amuse, only then will listeners want to understand the song’
Nasreen Munni Kabir
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First read: Amitav Ghosh asks why novelists don’t write about climate change
Amitav Ghosh