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  • Shabana Azmi: Indianness is inclusiveness

    Shabana Azmi: Indianness is inclusiveness

    Veteran actress Shabana Azmi shuns the hardliner stance that music and art is prohibited in Islam. She cites the example of greats such as late shehnai legend Ustad Bismillah Khan and late sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan to underline her point that tru

  • Review: Mee Raqsam: Simplistic but relevant

    Review: Mee Raqsam: Simplistic but relevant

    There is something very earnest about Mee Raqsam that endears, about the way debutant director Baba Azmi tries using his story to reiterate a message that is all-too familiar yet always relevant.

  • Music videos kept TV stars busy in the lockdown months

    Music videos kept TV stars busy in the lockdown months

    With lockdown paralysing shootings schedules, TV stars seemed more affected than their counterparts in films. However, a section of telly celebs have found a great avenue to stay occupied these past few months, and make some moolah in the process too, by

  • Star system on the wane (Column: B-Town)

    Star system on the wane (Column: B-Town)

    A lot of people in the film industry ask if the star system is over, if the Covid-19 pandemic and the full scale invasion of the OTT streaming platforms are only speeding up the process. Whatever ready content was available in the market has been bought o

  • Siddhant Chaturvedi: In my head I've always been a star

    Siddhant Chaturvedi: In my head I've always been a star

    Actor Siddhant Chaturvedi roared as the rap star MC Sher in Gully Boy last year, and life has never been the same. The talented actor, who has had his share of struggles to reach where he is today, says in his head he has always been a star even when he w

  • Durga Jasraj: Bapuji was a child at heart

    Durga Jasraj: Bapuji was a child at heart

    (Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj passed away on August 17 at the age of 90 in New Jersey. Daughter Durga Jasraj recalls her Bapuji beyond the legendary classical vocalist, as a man who loved many things from learning zoom call to singing online during lockd