Aandhi (1975)

They call it 'Angrezi ki aandhi (the English storm)'. Nowhere is the emphasis on English underscored more than in the world of school education. Faced with the aspirations of a burgeoning middle class, vernacular schools today are left with just two options: ...

Photo 1 of 26 We found this picture of young Aamir Khan with father Tahir Hussain and brother Faisal. Father and sons flash million dollar smiles while posing for the camera. Tahir Hussain produced hit movies like Caravan, Anamika and Hum Hai ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday severed his 18-year-old alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The chief minister met Governor D Y Patil and requested him to drop all the 11 BJP ministers from the state Cabinet. Nitish Kumar also informed ...

We agonise about cricket and while our players do us proud, what can one say of the BCCI? And I suppose IPL no longer exists. In the ICC Champion's Trophy, while we won our first game against South Africa, at home the controversy lingered though I ...

Yeh hai Pancham was an evening of compositions by music director R D Burman rendered by Chennai-based group Satrangi | R Satish Babu When you talk about the works of R D Burman (Pancham Da), there are many dimensions that you touch upon RDB-Gulzar, ...

If we are talking of a film almost 38 years after its release, it has to have something really remarkable to attract repeat visitors. Indeed, Gulzar's "Mausam" was a delectable feast a fine orchestra of a film with barely a false note. It had a ...

When Hu Tu Tu failed at the box office in 1999, Gulzar took retirement from filmmaking. The self-imposed exile was caused only partially by the debacle of the film. Having given more than 30 years of his life to films, he felt he had not done ...

Contrary to popular perception, Bollywood is not the bad boy of Indian cinema. Tamil and Telgu cinema are worse than Bollywood when it comes to violence and showing women in bad light in celluloid. The Indian cinema's watchdog - the Censor Board - ...

Mumbai: After Salman Khan hit the jackpot with his portrayal of a quirky cop Chulbul Pandey in Dabangg, everyone in Bollyood wanted to don the cop's uniform. This included Ajay Devgan (Singham), Akshay Kumar (Rowdy Rathore) or Shahid Kapur (in his next with ...