There’s no doubt that Taapsee Pannu is one of the most exciting young talents in Bollywood today. An actor who can go toe-to-toe with the legendary Amitabh Bachchan and still make her mark is someon...

He impressed with his first big role in the 2011 film Shaitan. Since then, Gulshan Devaiah has balanced the big (Ram-Leela) with the indie (A Death in the Gunj) and managed to slip in the odd wacky (H...

It’s rare to have a Hollywood director move East to make his Bollywood debut but if Chuck Russell is to be believed, he’s been waiting for this opportunity for some years now. Best known for direc...

For me, photographs are not the glossed-up, filter-rendered clicks that I can access with the swipe of a finger on my phone. They are the ones hiding in the albums of my childhood, slightly worn out a...

In 2012, Sujoy Ghosh’s first foray into the thriller space, Kahaani, released. It was a huge hit and the filmmaker hasn’t strayed away from the genre since. His Friday film Badla, starring Taapsee...

Given his “love for words”, Ankur Tewari turns out to be a man of measured words during our crisp 30-minute chat, as he ends every answer with a “yeah” — cue for me to move on to my next que...

Pranutan Bahl is the newest star kid to make her way to the silver screen. The legendary actress Nutan is her grandmother and Mohnish Bahl, of Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! fame, her fath...

Seven years ago, Sujoy Ghosh crafted a seminal thriller born out of the bylanes of Calcutta. Kahaani turned out to be a deliciously dark watch that turned the genre on its head, fashioning the ominous...

Nod and tribute, subtext and reference abound in every frame of Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, a campy — and often crazy — outing, the kind of film that Bollywood has rarely seen before, if at all. It’...

The Hindi-speaking audience last saw Anjali Patil as Malko in the much-celebrated Newton two years ago and last year she made her Tamil debut as Puyal, the fiery young woman, in Rajinikanth’s Kaala....