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| Requiem
for Mumbai |
| When and how did the once
vivacious, free-spirited and inspiring
Bombay turn into the exploited,
jinxed tragedy queen she is today,
asks Ashok Banker |
| There were diamonds on the railway tracks last Tuesday. No gold paving the streets, as the old quip goes, although a number of public works departments continue to drill and dig and search relentlessly, perhaps hoping someday to unearth the legendary... |
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| Killing fields |
| Tanabai Chaudhari sits brooding outside her mud hut in Papal village in the Yevatmal district of Maharashtra. Her cotton crop
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| Don
of a new era |
| When
director Mahesh Bhatt decided to make a film on
Abu Salem’s life, the notorious gangster was
livid. He promptly sued the director and Bhatt had
to go on record saying that the film was not about
Abu Salem at all and that the name of the mov... |
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| Play it again, Sam |
| The first week of January in New Delhi used to have a whiff of excitement to it. Every other year, enthusiastic queues would form in front of cinema halls early in the morning, with people in overcoats and mufflers bracing themselves against the cold... |
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| Celebrity Circus |
| Head-butting’s
hot |
| Last
Sunday, at Shatrughan and Punam Sinha’s wedding
anniversary dinner hosted by Videocon Dhoot (somebody
should give credit to Chunky Panday for starting
these sponsored parties), filmland’s chief
head-butter Salman Khan snorted like a bu... |
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