Giridhar Jha

Book launch event of "The Non-Conformist" biography of Balraj Sahani by his son Parikshat Sahani in Delhi.

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Ekta Kapoor with Outlook’s senior editor Giridhar Jha.

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Ekta Kapoor, Joint Managing Director and Creative Director of Balaji Films, in conversation with Outlook editor Giridhar Jha.

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From left, Outlook Sr. Editor Giridhar Jha, Singer KJ Yesudas and Musician AR Rahman during the 65th National Film Awards function at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi.

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I&B minister Smriti Irani confers Best Film Critic award to Giridhar Jha during the 65th National Film Awards function at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi.

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In The Crime-Meets-Politics World, Shahabuddin Had Clout Like No Other Bahubali In Bihar

Gangster-turned-politician and former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin died due to Covid-19 in Delhi on Saturday

May 01, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
'Aashiqui' Will Always Keep Shravan 'Nazar Ke Saamne, Jigar Ke Paas' Of Bollywood Lovers

Composer Shravan Rathod, of popular music director duo Nadeem-Shravan, passed away on Thursday due to Covid-19 related complications. The composer was admitted to SL Raheja hospital in a 'critical' condition.

Apr 23, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Is Building Bridges With Friends And Foes To Recover Lost Ground

Nitish Kumar, a Kurmi by caste, apparently wants to revive the non-Yadav OBC front in Bihar by building bridges with former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha, a Koeri leader.

Mar 24, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Nitish Kumar Suspects The Hand Of Bihar Police Mole Behind Protests Over New Law

The Bihar Assembly on Tuesday passed the Bihar Special Armed Police Bill 2021 amid protests by the Opposition leaders, who have termed the new law as ‘draconian’

Mar 24, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
What's In A Name? Ask This 'Bahubali' MLA From Bihar

Bahubali MLA Rit Lal Yadav was a former mukhiya and a former MLC before he won the assembly polls in November last year on the RJD ticket.

Feb 28, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Yet To Recover From First Blow, Hapless Bollywood Stares At Fresh Covid Scare

Theatres could be shutdown for a second time as the contagion has spread fast in at least 28 of the western state’s 36 districts over the past week

Feb 27, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Bollywood Whodunnit: Is Rhea Chakraborty In Or Out Of Big B’s Chehre?

Rhea Chakraborty is conspicuous by her absence on Chehre poster, not even tagged on Twitter by any one of the cast and crew, including Amitabh Bachchan.

Feb 25, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Why Bollywood Turns A Blind Eye To Plight Of Greats Like Santosh Anand?

The wheelchair-bound poet talked at length about personal tragedies, including death of his young son, but showed remarkable fortitude, refusing to seek any help, financial or otherwise, from anybody.

Feb 23, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Why Lalu Yadav’s Sons Need A Recap Of Bihar’s Political History Of Past 30 Years

Heaping scorn on veteran leaders and Lalu loyalists have even angered the RJD chief

Feb 22, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Who Will Gain If Kanhaiya Kumar Joins Forces With Nitish Kumar?

Nitish wouldn’t mind the CPI’s young Turk lending him a hand but is Kanhaiya Kumar game?

Feb 19, 2021

| Giridhar Jha

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Death Of A Don

A student leader shot, two brothers drenched in acid…mere entries in a dossier thick with crime and brute power. Shahabuddin may have been dear to RJD, but he was no Robinhood.

May 06, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
A Team Is A Balloon

Examining that mysterious grit in Bollywood’s eye: the falling out between star actors and directors/producers

Apr 29, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
‘Bhagwan Had Said Sheela Can Get Back...But It’s Time For Me To Move On’

The name Sheela Ambalal Patel ring any bells? It’s Ma Anand Sheela, she of Rajneesh/Osho fame—come out of her eclipse via two Netflix docus. An exclusive interview.

Apr 22, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
The Scream

In 2020, the year of the pandemic, lives took priority over livelihood. Both stand compromised in 2021, which promises to be more grim.

Apr 22, 2021

| G.C. Shekhar Giridhar Jha Jyotika Sood Lola Nayar Ashwani Sharma Rituparna Kakoty Jeevan Prakash Sharma Sandeep Sahu Preetha Nair
Palace Of Horrors, House Of Mirth Bollywood

They will make your flesh creep with terror, then double you up with laughter—for B-town is drenched in horror-comedies

Apr 08, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Draconian Shadow Of Sushasan

It’s come to this. Mr Good Governance passes a 'black law' in the dead of night—after a legislative day turned into a riot. Bihar wonders at the route Nitish Kumar is taking.

Apr 08, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Muzaffarpur Diary

Machchharpur? Smells that can assault even a Covid patient? Yes, yes. But India’s most unlivable city? Bah! It’s my city of joys, my crush, my teenage Brazzers. And those litchis!

Mar 17, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Arise, Real HEROES

Big screens, those grand exhibitors of Bollywood, are in great peril. They look at films with the biggest stars to pull them back from the very brink.

Mar 10, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Maths In A Poll Match

Young Tejashwi makes a soft border-crossing—endorsing his father’s old bête noire Mamata Banerjee in Bengal, and plumping for the Congress (and a few seats) in Assam

Mar 03, 2021

| Giridhar Jha
Nitish In Chirag’s Glare

The animus sown during the assembly poll still poisons the air in Bihar. Is Chirag Paswan a part of the ruling coalition or not? Who knows? Meanwhile, there’s talk of poaching….

Feb 17, 2021

| Giridhar Jha

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