“आ गए मेरी मौत का तमाशा देखने!” प्रताप नारायण तिलक, 1994 In 1927, German filmmaker Fritz Lang took the Indian mythological fable of Savitri-Satyavan and adapted it into Der müde…
आनंद मरा नहीं.. आनंद मरते नहीं. It was 1980 and Bombay’s woolly old belly was churning. It was no longer a city of mills. A cultural transformation was taking place….
You want to watch Thugs of Hindostan. Admit it. You’ve sneered at the trailer and done your bit to spread the noble memes but you’ll eventually head over to the theatre…
There are love stories and then there are love stories. In 1930, a young Romanian came to the doorstep of an Indian philosopher to learn about Hindu mysticism and spirituality….
At least a year before Amitabh Bachchan in Zanjeer, little Sridevi witnessed her family getting killed by a bandit wearing a distinctive locket (this time, a skeleton instead of a…
“I spoke to Vinod and Vinod said, “Have you got anything portable which I can take to Bangalore with me? If you got any portable spare parts, put them in…
An Evening in Coney Island, 1918 It was 1918. The ‘War to End All Wars‘ was in its final leg, American President Woodrow Wilson made his famous ‘Fourteen Points‘ speech…
It was the mid-90s. “Skin-tight jeans” were a thing, and audio cassettes were prized possessions. Forget social media, even the Internet was unheard of, while cyber cafes were still a…
A sinister man in a black suit flips open his revolver and inserts bullets. As he aims the gun and fires, the letters slowly form on the screen: “Gudachari…
(Two Triumvirates, separated by four decades – give or take – hold sway over the Bollywood jungle. The parallels between the two are uncanny.) In Peshawar, British India, two young…