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This Oscar-Winning IIT Grad from Pune Has Changed the Face of Hollywood...
Have you, like a million others, marvelled at the animation and special effects in movies like Beowulf, The Amazing Spider-Man, Watchmen, Hancock, Bewitched, The Smurfs 2, or Monster House? While...
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“Fashion Now to Denigrate the Country”: What 20-YOs Thought of India in 1967
In 1967, it had been 20 years since India had achieved independence. In the decade before 1967, India had witnessed the first television service (1959), Goa’s liberation from the Portuguese (1961), the...
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Village Rockstars: 7 Things to Know About India’s Entry to the Oscars
Every once in a while there comes a movie with a storyline so simple and yet stunning, that it will leave you yearning for more. ‘Village Rockstars’, an Assamese film does just that. This coming-of-age...
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Dev Anand to Madhubala: How Ashok Kumar Gave India Some of Its Biggest Stars!
Kumudlal Ganguly was born in 1911 to a simple Bengali family in Bhagalpur in the Bengal Presidency of British India (now in Bihar). Kunjlal, his father, was a lawyer and wanted his eldest son to follow...
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Badhaai Ho, Thank You for Helping India Embrace This ‘Uncomfortable Truth’
“Mummy pregnant hai meri,” an embarrassed Nakul tells his girlfriend. A 25-year-old man, well settled at his job, with a teenaged brother ten years younger, Nakul can be any one of us. His family, the...
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This Awesome ‘Travelling’ Multiplex Is Taking Cinema to Villages in 14 Indian...
Movies are arguably one of the best options for entertainment that we have. They transcend the boundaries of age, cultural background and choices, and it wouldn’t be wrong to assume that watching a...
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Featured Globally, Here Are 10 Indian Films Considered Among the World’s...
Every now and then, there comes a film that hits the bull’s eye with every emotion it evokes. Whether an evergreen comedy, a thriller that has you sitting on the edge of your seat, or a drama which...
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Ode to a Legend: This Connection Between Mrinal Sen &‘Lagaan’ Will Surprise You
For Veteran Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen, the personal was always political. One of the forerunners of parallel cinema in India, Sen had the penchant for telling tales with a deep socio-political...
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Ranveer-Alia’s ‘Gully Boy’ Inspired by the Rap to Riches Journey of These...
From the streets to the celluloid, this rapper duo’s powerful socio-political verses are soon going to be adapted into a Bollywood film, Gully Boy, starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt. Photo Source:...
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Why It’s Important for #EkLadkiKoDekhaTohAisaLaga to Be a Typical Love Story
Homosexuality is not new in Bollywood in the broad sense. In films like ‘Fire’, ‘Margarita with a Straw’, ‘Fashion’, ‘Aligarh’ and ‘Kapoor and Sons’, homosexual characters are played in a positive or...
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Exclusive: Pankaj Tripathi’s One-Of-Its-Kind Love Story Will Totally Win You...
Some of the greatest love stories go unseen, unheard and undocumented, simply because they’re ordinary couples living their lives. The Better India is showcasing such stories— everyday people and...
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First Indian Stuntwoman Gets Her Own Biopic: Meet the ‘Sholay Girl’, Reshma...
This International Women’s Day, we introduce you to some truly incredible Indian women whose stories define resilience, courage and inspiration. #BalanceForBetter If there is one film that has...
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Sahir Ludhianvi, The Poet of Peace Whose Lyrics Made a Home in People’s Hearts
In a recent podcast, Javed Akhtar recited these lines from a song in the 1959 film Dhool ka Phool, directed by the legendary BR Chopra and sung by Mohammad Rafi: Tu Hindu Banega Na Musalmaan Banega,...
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When Ladakh’s Original Hero Dared to Take the Plunge Into Bollywood in the 1970s
Ladakh officially opened itself to the world in 1974 when the Government of India first allowed tourists into this strategically sensitive high-altitude region. However, in 1972, a young and ambitious...
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Indians Gave Their Money to Bring These 5 Films to Life. Watched Them Yet?
What could three different films—about a doctor on a white revolution mission; an insomniac and an unemployed youngster—possibly have in common? Well, all these movies saw the light of the day, only...
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Memories of Mogambo: Little-Known Stories About the Legendary Amrish Puri
A deep baritone erupts into thunderous laughter and out of the darkness, enters a towering figure, piercing through the mist with a pair of glowing bulbous eyes, chilling enough to stare down...
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Meet the Director Whose ‘Bomb’ Films Want You To Understand a Woman’s Fears!
“This is our only chance to make men feel the same fear that women feel every day.” This line of dialogue from the film ‘Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal’ is perhaps reflective of similar desires inside many a...
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5 Women Who Challenged the Status Quo To Become ‘Firsts’ in Indian Cinema
While growing up, the majority of the movies I was exposed to, despite their different titles, actors, directors and to some extent story-lines, had a common thread running through them. Most of them...
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Bollywood’s First Empress: Before Madhubala & Nargis, India had Devika Rani
Before Madhubala, Nargis, and Meena Kumari, there was Devika Rani, a star actor and film producer, who co-founded Bombay Talkies, India’s first self-contained film studio, alongside her first husband...
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Amjad Khan: 5 Stories You Didn’t Know About India’s Unforgettable Gabbar!
Yahan se pachas pachas kos door gaon mein … jab bachcha raat ko rota hai, toh maa kehti hai bete so ja … so ja nahi toh Gabbar Singh aa jayega. Dressed in a khaki suit and armed with a belt, when the...
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