Award wapasi continues: Kundan Shah, 23 others return National Awards

Another 24 filmmakers including Kundan Shah of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro fame and Saeed Mirza and writer Arundhati Roy on Thursday returned their National Awards over "growing intolerance", voicing......

Tribute: Shrilal Shukla's work shocked India, left it naked

Shrilal Shukla, author of the iconic Raag Darbari and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award, passed away last week. In a touching tribute, Sidharth Monga revisits Shukla's most famous work, in which......

Ambani case: Clean chit for ADAG officials

Railway police on Friday gave a clean chit to three officials of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group whose statements were recorded in connection with the death of Airworks technician Bharat Borge. These......

25 Movie Gems I Am Proud Of

'Here are 25 stories special to me for one reason too many,' says Sukanya Verma who scored 25 years writing about the movies last week. Photograph: Kind courtesy Pixabay It all began in September......

How Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro was born

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro mixed comedy with themes of corruption and unemployment that lifted the modest NFDC production into one of the best dark comedies in Indian cinema. Photograph: Ravi Baswani......

RARE PIX: The Making of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Have you seen these lovely behind-the-scenes pictures of Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro? This article was first published in November 2012. IMAGE: Naseeuddin Shah, Neena Gupta, Satish Shah, Om Puri and Ravi......

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro director Kundan Shah passes away

'What a tragic loss for cinema, for India.' Filmmaker Kundan Mehta, who made iconic films like Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron and Kabhie Haan Kabhie Naa, succumbed to a heart attack on Saturday......

Depleted India have job cut out against Pakistan

Injury-hit India are looking to draw inspiration from history when they take on arch-rivals Pakistan in their Champions Trophy opener in Centurion on Saturday. Already missing star performers......

Barcelona win Champions League

The dream Champions League final did not materialise as Manchester United showed rare stage fright and Barcelona won without having to produce a stellar performance. All the talk had been of the......