Mumbai Chawls, through the Bollywood lens

The Mumbai chawl serves as the humble abode of Agneepath's lager-than-life hero Vijay Dinanath Chavan. We look at other Hindi films set in the chawls.The overpopulated city of Mumbai makes the most......

The very best of Naseeruddin Shah

There are some actors who can do absolutely anything. Today, we celebrate a man who has always been able to carry off anything with style, from bombastically delivering triple-barrelled echoes of......

'He made our films special'

'I owe so much of what I am to Shiva Dada.' IMAGE: Shiv Subrahmanyam with Anil Kapoor in Parinda. Photograph: Kind courtesy Vidhu Vinod Chopra Films/Instagram Actor-writer Shiv Subrahmanyam passed......

Review: Court: Better in parts, than as a whole

Alas, as an indictment of our legal system, Court doesn't prick deeply, says Raja Sen. An Indian courtroom is not a place you want to be. The universally slumped shoulders, the increasingly......