'Bollywood saved my life'

IMAGE: Novelist Shobhaa De, Vikas Swarup, novelist, diplomat and the ministry of external affairs spokesperson, director Kabir Khan and Saffron Art CEO Hugo Weihe at the event. Photograph:......

'I Wanted Waheeda Rehman For Ankur'

'I don't think Waheeda had the confidence that I could pull it off, so she said no.' IMAGE: Shabana Azmi in Ankur. Shyam Benegal started his film career with the brilliant Ankur. The 1974 film not......

My father, Satyajit Ray

One of India's top filmmakers Satyajit Raj would have been 95 on May 2.  We celebrate him by re-publishing a special series of articles through the week. On May 12, Satyajit Ray's first film,......

How Charulata inspired Devdas

IMAGE: Aishwarya Rai in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas. As cinema lovers celebrate Satyajit Ray's birth centenary on May 2, one of his die-hard fans in Bollywood -- Sanjay Leela Bhansali -- is......

'All the greats are gone'

'I met him in September, just days before he was hospitalised for Covid, for a documentary that his daughter was making.''He was in the pink of health, conversing with everyone the whole day.'......