'I am the godfather of disco'

'You make a hit, everything is fit.' IMAGE: Bappi Lahiri at home. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com Singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who popularised disco music in India in the 1980s and......

5 must-watch films on Ambedkar Jayanti

On Ambedkar Jayanti, Subhash K Jha picks five unforgettable Hindi films that capture the inequality of the caste system. Sujata (1959) Inspired directly by Dr Ambedkar's treatise on abolishing the......

We're waiting to be entertained, Mr Ghai

I've been a Hindi movie buff ever since I can remember. Born into a lower middle-class family, my parents managed to show me quite a few Hindi movies, at cheap suburban Mumbai theatres, every......