Along with the Chelsea Flower Show and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, Royal Ascot, where the Queen arrives with members of her family in horse-drawn carriages, is another highlight of the...

Guess who Kangana Ranaut is currently gunning for? A bunch of top-level critics with great integrity. After spewing venom on her film industry colleagues — that ranged from a stunned what-hit-me Ali...

Aankhon se aankhein milti hai aise/Bechain hoke toofan me jaise.A toofan struck Hindi popular cinema 50 years ago, and made an entire nation bechain with desire. The song Roop Tera Mastana burnt up In...

Team India cricketers nowadays mostly lead glamourous, comfortable lives. But how was it decades back, when Indian cricket was still struggling to find its feet on the world stage? Sharmila Tagore, wi...

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A young couple, drenched in a storm, caught in a storm of their own making. Roop tera mastana is that one-take breathless build-up of desire. You watch Vandana (a fine Sharmila Tagore, who was signed ...

Someone did say famously, and ringingly, that you’d pay just to watch David Gower stroll to the crease and take guard. It’s a description that has aged well; on the evidence of this evening, you�...

While Mukherjee himself felt that Satyakam stood for something unalloyed and honest in his filmmaking career (it’s a grim, somewhat depressing film whose box-office prospects were always bleak), it�...

The CIMA Art Mela opened at the Visual Arts Gallery at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi yesterday. One of the early visitors was Sharmila Tagore who browsed through the entire collection and picked u...

Sharmila Tagore, who is not a great one for wallowing in nostalgia, gives only a brief answer when invited to reflect on her 60 years in cinema.“Very pleasant,” she replies. “I didn’t get much...