A sharply sculpted face with cheekbones bouncing off light. Hair, rippling like silk across the screen. Sensuality that was wide-eyed innocence in one instant and overwhelmingly dark and compelling in another. Crystal clear diction. In an era before size-zero became a template, she was perfection in leotards, swim suits ...Read More
Guilt today is a global media event. So when Lance Armstrong finally answered the big question about his integrity in the widely televised interview with a, "I'm not the most believable guy in the world right now," Oprah Winfrey almost ...Read More
Pandit Ravi Shankar passed away today. Rajinikanth turned 62. Dilip Kumar turned 90 yesterday. Smita Patil passed away almost 26 years ago on December 13. Births, deaths. Years counted, measured, emptied out. filled up. This whole idea of time and ...Read More
This post is dedicated to my mother; who like any other teenager was smitten by Rajesh Khanna in the 70s so much so that she wore sarees especially like one of his heroines; Sharmila Tagore (though she totally denies it!). ...Read More
He raises his eyebrow. Flicks a tear off his sculpted, strikingly beautiful face. Leans forward. Cups his chin. He is not Oprah but we could be wrong. Satyamev Jayate is a well-intentioned show. It has got one thing right. The ...Read More
I did not want to write about Whitney Houston's death because like Amy Winehouse, she too as been turned into a cautionary tale about the failure to deal with success, wealth, adulation and fulfilled dreams. When a glistening firefly crashes ...Read More
A friend watching a film at home with me said something pertinent the other day. There was a time when actors just acted. They were expected to be just actors. They did not hawk their films by dancing at reality ...Read More
A couple of years ago, film maker Tom Shadyac, known for blockbuster comedies like Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, Patch Adams and The Nutty Professor walked into his luxurious new 17000 sq ft Beverly Hills home which had more bedrooms, bathrooms ...Read More
You could hear the clenched fists though you could not see them. There was the face. Battle weary and lined. And the voice. Laboured. Faltering but trying to pull a frayed temper together. Yes, it is tough being Rupert Murdoch in these times. To be ...Read More
The performing animal left the circus on June 25, 2009 but we continue to anoint his remains, repair the broken halo and embroider a velvet shroud to celebrate him. He, who in his lifetime was first built and then taken apart in a bloody arena ...Read More
Robert Allen Zimmerman recently turned 70. It seems incredible that in a world where Rebecca Black has gone viral and Justin Bieber is the best new artist, we still have living amongst us a man, who wrote lyrics like, “I ...Read More
Recently a small box in an entertainment supplement of a leading newspaper, claimed that actress Rani Mukherjee would be honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award. Rani reportedly said, "I'm happy that people have loved my film (No One Killed Jessica) and my work. I have ...Read More
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