May 19, 2022 Have southern films outsmarted Bollywood? Pushpa’s chin-wipe has cast a spell across the world, as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films sweep aside Bollywood’s carefully manicured reputations, budgets and delusions of invincibility.
May 18, 2022 Giridhar Jha speaks to S.S. Rajamouli, the 48-year-old director with the Midas touch, who has taken the box office by storm with his Telugu-Tamil bilingual, Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), its sequel Baahubali: The Conclusion (2017), and more recently RRR (2022).
Apr 06, 2022 Indian horror was once all about sleazy movies from the Ramsay stables. It’s now seeking to scare the audience with better fare.
Apr 01, 2022 Kashmir remained a veritable paradise for Bollywood for a long time. For an average filmy Joe, Hindi cinema was incomplete without its quota of breathtaking visuals of snowfall in Gulmarg, lush-green meadows by the Lidder at Pahalgam or a song-and-dance routine on a shikara on the placid Dal Lake.
Mar 02, 2022 Never known for originality or verisimilitude, Bollywood scriptwriters trawl the absolute depths when creating on-screen prostitutes, in search of lucre
Feb 17, 2022 Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar have mastered the art of successfully running multi-party governments, with or without conforming to the ideals of coalition dharma
Feb 16, 2022 A gifted tunesmith who was equally at ease in churning out Indian and western compositions, Bappi Lahiri had the talent to even put geniuses like R.D. Burman in the shade in his heyday.
Feb 10, 2022 A tribute to the inspiring artiste that was Lata Mangeshkar
Feb 06, 2022 If there was a Mangeshkar monopoly ever, Hindi cinema was too blessed to have it
Dec 19, 2021 Manish Mundra, in March 2020, was going great guns after collaborating with Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment for the release of Kaamyaab. But this was shortly before the nationwide lockdown.
Dec 10, 2021 30 years after her big-screen debut in 'Patthar Ke Phool', the Mast-mast girl is reinventing herself to explore the OTT universe with 'Aranyak' on Netflix
Dec 08, 2021 On the latest list of the world’s most polluted cities released by IQAir, Bihar’s Muzaffarpur and Patna are in the 28th and 32nd position, while Gaya and Hajipur also figure in the top 100.
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Dec 07, 2021 Kaushlendra's idea of setting up a farmers’ cooperative for creating a supply chain was triggered by the fact that despite having ideal climate and soil, the local farmers were switching over to other crops for lack of access to market.
Nov 24, 2021 The JP movement of the '70s birthed the careers and dynasties of several politicians. Whether the promises it made actually trickled down is another story.
Nov 17, 2021 Lost in a mela or left in the train? Indian cinema has reprised the same old story in different settings.
Nov 14, 2021 After 30 years, the kingdom of Aamir, Salman and Shah Rukh Khan under siege in Bollywood.
Nov 03, 2021 In Kusheshwar Ashtan, JD-U candidate Aman Kumar Hazari defeated his nearest RJD rival Ganesh Bharti by a margin of 12,685 votes while Arun Kumar of RJD lost to Rajeev Kumar Singh of the ruling party by 1,722 votes in Tarapur.
Nov 02, 2021 JD-U candidate Aman Kumar Hazari has won the Kusheshwar Asthan seat in the by-election by a margin of 12,698 votes over his nearest rival Ganesh Bharti of RJD in Darbhanga district of Bihar.
Oct 27, 2021 Ailing ex-CM Lalu Yadav’s ‘insult’ of Congress leader Bhakta Charan Das turns into a row amid signs of realignment of foes and allies in Bihar.
Oct 21, 2021 How the larger-than-life Hindi film hero of yesteryears gave way to the relatable charm of Shah Rukh and the other Khans.
Oct 11, 2021 A low-down on the men and women who played a key role in making Amitabh Bachchan the Phenomenon that he ultimately became.
Oct 06, 2021 Oh, to be able to return to the dank, muggy, single-screen theatres in dusty mofussil towns, and to relive the magic of Bollywood formula (Ssshhh… and some desi porn)
Sep 29, 2021 The removal of Jayaprakash Narayan and Ram Manohar Lohia’s works from the syllabi of a Bihar university causes a political furore and forces a hasty reinstatement by Nitish Kumar. Other titans, however, remain quietly discarded.
Sep 22, 2021 The humble bicycle has become the abiding image of Bihar CM’s efforts to give women the power to carve their own paths in elections.
Sep 09, 2021 Lalu and Paswan had forged an alliance against the NDA led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ahead of the 2010 assembly elections but their alliance could not get more than 25 seats in the 243-member assembly at the time.