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Saeed Mirza Is Still an Angry Man

The director of the seminal Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai on his career as a novelist, the West’s racist ideas and why he found films “very limiting”

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2 Mar 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
That 70s Showman

Milan Luthria, director of The Dirty Picture, on his fear of beginnings, love of dark characters and favourite Bollywood era

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23 Feb 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
Reality Check for Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu

The effort to dramatise Imran Khan’s hygiene obsession, the trouble with sparse scenes and how director Shakun Batra tried keeping it real

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12 Feb 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
The Cult of C-Grade Movies

This is cinema that can make a masochist wince. So how come it is acquiring fans who know—or ought to know—good cinema from bad?

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7 Jan 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
In Search of Modern Art

From Raza to Husain to the leader of the Bombay Progressives, FN Souza, nobody really knew what modern art or modernity was.

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7 Jan 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
In Defence of Distributors

Time was when filmmakers valued the feedback of independent film distributors and would even make changes on their request. Now the very existence of this tribe is under threat

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8 Dec 2011 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
The Unlikely Hero

He has neither the looks nor the genes to back him, but Emraan Hashmi is quietly and surefootedly climbing his way up with one hit after another

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7 Dec 2011 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
Bollywood’s Revised Cheque List

The truth about Bollywood’s star salaries

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14 Oct 2011 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
The Talented Mr Ganguly

Actor Ashok Kumar wore many hats in his life, including those of a painter of nudes and master homeopath

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14 Oct 2011 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
‘Salman Has Disappointed Me’

Salim Khan on his superstar son not realising his true acting potential, his hyphenated relationship with Javed Akhtar, and his ‘mother love’

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9 Oct 2011 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
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