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| King Khan and I |
| A 'quiet Shah Rukh' is not an oxymoron, says Nasreen Munni Kabir, after wrapping up her twin films on the superstar. Sudipta Basu meets up with the prolific docu-filmmaker |
| Nasreen Munni Kabir made a quiet pact with the movies when she was growing up in England in the Fifties. As an immigrant, the Hyderabad-born settler told herself, she would soak up every Hindi film that mounted the marquee. She did that ' and contin... | Read.. |
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| Road to Boral |
| The sylvan village of Pather Panchali is now a municipal town. And today’s Apus and Durgas play computer games. Debashis Bhattacharyya reports ... | Read.. |
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| Breaking the mould |
| Back in the Thirties, acting in films was not considered an honourable profession for anybody. And for a married woman from a well-educated and respectable upper-middle class Muslim family, it was forbidden to even think about it. But Khurshid Mirza,... | Read.. |
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| Vows for a rapist |
| Shall we compose a saptapadi for rapists' 'My beloved, having violated your body, your soul and spat on your rights, I now welcome this opportunity to shorten my jail term by entering into holy matrimony with you. I promise to abuse and dishonour you... | Read.. |
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