Hansal & Great Tales

Hansal Mehta has churned out impactful stories year after year ­— Shahid in 2013, CityLights in 2014, Aligarh in 2015, Omerta in 2017. next will be The Accidental Prime Minister, releasing in December Carving out strong characters inspired from the intricacies of real life, film director Hansal Mehta chose to follow the unconventional path. Despite […]

Looking for great stories

Aalya Singh is a Delhi girl on the way to becoming a top-notch actress. She already has a few Bollywood films to her credit. In this interview, she tells us about her experience of being a budding star in the Hindi film industry: Can you tell us a little about your background and what inspired […]

‘Kids are the real stars’

With his Independence Day release Satyamev Jayate in cinema halls now, Manoj Bajpayee has much to smile about Born in a farmer’s family in Belwa, a small village in Bihar, Manoj Bajpayee is a well-known actor today, with two National Awards and four Filmfare Awards in his kitty. Aspiring to be an actor since childhood, […]

Trapped overseas

Highlighting misleading work contracts in the Middle East that trap the worker in a foreign land with a meagre income, this film aims to initiate a conversation on a stirring issue Poetry of romance in Sangam literature assigns human experiences to specific landscapes. Following this guideline, Jayakrishnan Subramanian directed the short film, Palai — Landscapes […]

Revisiting the Buddha

National award-winning director Aparna Sanyal is back with another film that tells us the story of the monks who won a Grammy It was back in 2004, when the monks of Palpung Sherabling Monastery grabbed the Grammy for their chants. Taking us through their remarkable journey, director Aparna Sanyal’s latest film, The Monks Who Won […]

Glow of success

As her career hums along nicely, Huma Qureshi gets another feather in her cap – a Tamil movie with Rajnikanth. What more could a girl from Delhi want? Huma’s mother, a Kashmiri, and her father Saleem Qureshi, who runs a chain of restaurants in Delhi, fell in love and got married despite family opposition. And […]

The hit man

Rajkumar Hirani has done it again with his biopic Sanju, not only by casting Ranbir Kapoor as Sanjay Dutt but by making it a top grosser Director of superhit films, Rajkumar Hirani has added another big feather in his cap with Sanju, based on the life and style of Bollywood veteran Sanjay Dutt. He not […]

Laughing with the stars

Daughter of a popular villain in Hindi films, Payal Goga Kapoor has been making her presence felt on stage, particularly in comedies like Golmaal – The Play If the name Payal Goga Kapoor sounds familiar, it’s because her father Goga Kapoor was a popular Hindi film actor who played a part in hit films of […]