Film Heritage Foundation (FHF), steered by filmmaker and archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, has restored some significant Indian films over the …
Master of the Medium Wave: Basu Chatterji
He wouldn’t react to a lousy review by me in The Times of India, except for one occasion. I had …
On Our Big, Fat Movie Weddings
Once, a white-haired, dagger-tongued taxi driver, speeding me through traffic towards Royal Opera House, where Raj Khosla’s Do Raaste (1969) …
The Jewels In Heeramandi’s Crown
During my adolescence in the 1960s, by sheer happenstance I became privy to the insulated world of a Bombay kotha: …
Revisiting Dosti, The Saga Of Tears & Tribulations
It was a mildly winter day in Bombay, on November 6, 1964. A bunch of us kids weren’t quite thrilled …
Across The Border: Mammo
Khalid Mohamed recalls how he wrote the real-life story and screenplay of the National Award-winning film, Mammo (1994), now accessible …