Conversations Over Chai

  I am not a great fan of Kishore Kumar, the actor, except in rare circumstances. But his physical comedy is absolutely fantastic, especiall...

There’s a romance associated with train journeys. There’s a certain nostalgia for the days of my youth when we travelled regularly by train,...

12.02.1920 - 12.07.2013 Where do I begin? My conscious introduction to Pran was in Amar Akbar Anthony .  Of course, I liked him, and wanted ...

No, I do not mean the songs are masquerading as something else (what?); it's just that it made for a catchy title. On the other ha...

I was driving my son back from his ballet class on Monday when, just as I was about to turn the corner to our home, he exclaimed excited...

04.08.1929 - 13.10.1987 It seems appropriate that I end this month with my follow-up post on the Hindi music industry's eccentric...

19-11-1922 - 5-9-1995 If September 1923 saw the birth of Devsaab, then another September seven decades plus later saw the death of a C...

How do you catalogue Helen? Throughout the 60s, there was nary a movie that did not have a stage / nightclub / cabaret  number that sho...