Yasser Usman
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'They Are Going To Kill Shah Rukh': How Underworld Terror Haunted Bollywood Then And Now
Shah Rukh Khan's account showed how the underworld built a total fear psychosis to control Bollywood by threatening stars, dictating film choices, and extorting money. The attack on Tiger Shroff has revived those old fears.
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50 Years Of Amitabh Bachchan And Rekha: The Silsila That Never Really Ended
Fifty years ago, Do Anjaane (1976) brought them together. The two stars were polar opposites on a call sheet. Amitabh was Bollywood's unstoppable 'Angry Young Man' (Zanjeer, Deewar, Sholay) and famously disciplined. Rekha was mostly stuck in B-grade films and known for anything except being on time.
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Dev Anand And Suraiya's Love Story: A Diamond Ring, A Family Ultimatum And A Romance Lost
In an industry where a couple of box-office failures usually spell the end for a producer-director, Dev Anand commanded immense goodwill for decades, no matter how his films performed
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What Mirzapur The Movie Gets Right That Bollywood's Superstar Films Often Get Wrong
Mirzapur: The Movie doesn't have a conventional Bollywood 'superstar' whose name alone can command an opening, and yet, the theatres are filling up
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The Making Of Anand: Rajesh Khanna's Last Days As Superstar Before 'Lambu' Amitabh Bachchan's Rise
The legendary film director Frank Capra once said that tragedy is not when the actor cries, but when the audience cries. And how the audience cried for Anand
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Bollywood Has A 'Partition Curse'. Will Batwara 1947 Break It?
Batwara 1947 doesn't have to choose between the Gadar audience and the serious Partition-film audience.
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The Last Goodbye Of 'The Tragedy Queen': Meena Kumari's Final Shoot Was More Heartbreaking Than Her Last Film
Pakeezah remained Meena Kumari's legendary swansong. But Gomti Ke Kinare was her actual farewell. The last, humble frame where the Tragedy Queen faced her beloved camera one last time, smiled through her pain, and quietly said goodbye
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Battling Cancer, A Fractured Leg: How Rajesh Khanna Faced The Camera One Last Time
The entire unit gave a standing ovation to Rajesh Khanna as he waved his hands in his unique style
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Can Alia Bhatt's Alpha Survive Ranveer Singh's Dhurandhar Effect?
Alpha is walking straight into a battlefield where the rules have just been rewritten by Dhurandhar
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Rekha, Biswajeet And A Kiss She Never Consented To: The Story Behind The Headlines
Reflecting on the episode years later, Rekha told journalist Dinesh Raheja in 1994: "I didn't do it. I was taken by surprise. Nothing could've compensated, nothing can wipe off what I felt. Not even the coverage it got in 'Life' magazine."
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Curse Of Don 3: How Farhan Akhtar's Film Lost SRK, Ranveer Singh, And Its Way
What happened behind the scenes that led Ranveer Singh to pull the plug weeks before cameras were set to roll?
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How Ayan Mukerji's Gamble Of Casting Exes Ranbir Kapoor And Deepika Padukone Paid Off In Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani remains one of the last Bollywood rom-coms to truly become pop culture
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11 Years Later, Piku Still Understands Parents, Children And Emotional Baggage Better Than Most
The casting was a brilliant gamble, pairing Deepika Padukone's mainstream stardom with Irrfan Khan's indie soul for a refreshingly unconventional chemistry. Adding Amitabh Bachchan as a cranky, quintessential Bengali Bhadralok father completed a trio that gave the film its natural, lived-in feel.
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Before Dhurandhar, There Was Sarfarosh, The First Bollywood Film That Named Pakistan And The ISI As Villains
Sarfarosh may not have been a phenomenon like Dhurandhar, but it definitely changed expectations for realistic cop dramas and terrorism thrillers that followed
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Before Dhurandhar And Ramayana, There Was One Forgotten Genius Who Created Both Worlds
While his TV series Ramayan received its due, the first mega-budget spy thriller of Bollywood, the film that started it all, is rarely discussed anymore
