Three Punjabi men get into the Pacific mansion of the world’s deadliest Dr Dang, Salman Rushdie, who sprays bullets at them from his machine gun. If I hadn’t seen this film, I couldn’t have vouched for the fact that it really does exist. Read more

After school, hanging around, mostly by myself, in Delhi’s home-grown, small-time film festivals, I learnt a thing or two about the film lovers’ side of the nation’s capital. Every few weeks, an embassy in South Delhi would host a festival, usually of films from their country, or a retrospective of an acclaimed actor, or director. Read more

It’s been 80 years since the release of Alam Ara, India’s first talkie. No one alive has seen the film. I once met a man who’d not only heard cinema break the sound barrier, he’d carried Alam Ara’s can of reels on his head. Read more

Surely you’ve seen (or not seen) a whole lot of mindless Bollywood movies (No Problem, Golmaal 3 etc) lately. Here’s looking at the best that should replace drugs on streets Read more

How the fart of a few keeps millions away from some great films forever. Read more

Do you know the most loved Bollywood film of Germany in 2009? It’s a Yashraj picture called Dil Bole Hadippa. Why? Well… Read more

One 2004 Bhojpuri film can probably best explain North India’s post-independence Partition! Read more