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A Legend By Any Definition

Mohammad Yousuf Khan, a.k.a Dilip Kumar, or ‘Daleep’ Kumar’s 90th birthday is also being celebrated in Peshawar today

01 January 1970

Poisonous Honey

While anti-rape protests rightly take the government to task for better policing and changes in law, perhaps it is also time to introspect on the sort of lyrics that are being promoted in the name of irreverence and 'youth...

01 January 1970

'Today We Need A Messiah'

On the noted actor's death anniversary (1 May 1913–13 April 1973), we reproduce a convocation address he delivered at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1972

01 January 1970

Vintage Classic

What made this Bharat Ratna a legend in his lifetime was not just his individualistic gayaki. 'There was a recklessness in his approach to life which had its own magnetism'

01 January 1970

' Bhimanna, You'll Never Abandon Us And Go Away'

Legendary singer Bhimsen Joshi's eldest son from his first wife reclaims his father

01 January 1970
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The Two Universals

When it comes to the universal and the local, we can broadly distinguish between two categories of people: there are ones who learn to pan the world and there are others who decide to dig a place deep

01 January 1970

Shillong, Bob Dylan And Cowboy Boots

Bob Dylan, who celebrates his 70th birthday today, could be a local hero in Shillong, the way devotees sing happy birthday to him each year. But despite these birthday parties, he will never age.

01 January 1970

The Bollywood Mujra Primer

For those who are given to spending sleepless nights pondering and wondering such important issues as what exactly constitutes the dance form featured in so many Hindi films of yore

01 January 1970

'A Sense Of Soulfulness'

'There was a simplicity with which he uttered every word, the manner in which he coerced the notes and the way they all blended seamlessly to produce music that could stir your soul'

01 January 1970

A Personal Flashback

Our resident film critic gets down to making her lists for the year

01 January 1970
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Shah Rukh Can

MNIK is an important film not because a bunch of thugs tried to stop its screening. It is significant because a big mainstream icon has stuck his neck out and taken the risk of asserting, 'Hey, yes, I’m a Muslim'.

01 January 1970

The Living Stage

The audience astonished me no less than the play [ The Blue Mug]. I have been used to seeing bespectacled white heads fill the Music Academy's theatre in Chennai... But this evening was different...

01 January 1970

White Skin, Black Mask

March 13 marked the death anniversary of Lee Falk, creator of The Phantom a.k.a. Kit Walker, the Ghost Who Walks...the man who cannot die. The legend lives on.

01 January 1970

In Shining Light

It was a very special evening a week ago, when people assembled to felicitate V.K. Murthy in Bangalore after he had returned from Delhi with the Dadasaheb Phalke award.

01 January 1970

Tagore Treasures

And now pressure mounts on the government to bring back 12 paintings by Rabindranath Tagore, set to be auctioned by Sotheby's at London on June 15, 2010

01 January 1970
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The Paris Art Heist

Five masterpieces including works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse are stolen from the Musee d'Art Moderne in the French capital

01 January 1970

Kites

Hrithik gets to display his masculinity for what it truly is—highly affected, curiously feminine, excessively conceited and self-absorbed...

01 January 1970

Kannada Schist, Tamil Granite

Cauvery, Hogenakkal, Veerappan, the classical language status, affiliation of border towns... and now the above two. Why should the medium of sculptors potentially threaten peace between two linguistic communities?

01 January 1970

Rajneeti

My misgivings about the film started with the cringeworthy “Roop tera mastana” scene right at the start...

01 January 1970

Rajneeti Or Politics?

What is true and what is distorted beneath the melodrama in the presentation of politics in Prakash Jha’s film Rajneeti?

01 January 1970
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The Act Of Listening

I did my best to escape music as a child, running very fast whenever my mother tried to teach me the Tagore songs she sang so beautifully, but my genes ensured music would eventually return to me, or I to it...

01 January 1970

The 'All-India' Film

A definitive history of Bengali cinema presents an alternative understanding to the currently influential notion of the Hindi film as the ‘Indian’ or ‘national’ cinema

01 January 1970

Ray And The Bengali Cinema

How Satyajit Ray both drew upon and ultimately altered Bengali film practice

01 January 1970

The Bollystanis

Bollywood has emerged as the most successful manufacturer of Indian identity and the ubiquitous global Indian of these films -- trendy, cosmopolitan and affluent -- has circulated widely enough to become representative of...

01 January 1970

33 Horrors And A Happy Ending

The episodic construction, the cardboard and one-dimensional characters, the 'garbage tourism' feel, which some have called 'poverty porn' -- it's all just slumbug.

01 January 1970
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