Role call: Nine times Vidya Balan proved that she can do, will do and does do
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When a song has both male and female versions, who does it better?
By Devarsi Ghosh
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‘Cake’: Why we can’t get enough of this Pakistani slice-of-life movie
By Vedica Kant
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Hand it to Shah Rukh Khan: His gesture of love has become a byword for film romance
By Nandini Ramnath
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The draw of a Naseeruddin Shah performance is that it never feels like one
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Classics revisited: Shyam Benegal’s ‘Ankur’ burrows deep into the consciousness
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Film flashback: ‘Mirch Masala’ had something to say about MeToo back in the 1980s
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Sabu Dastagir, the actor who crossed over to Hollywood on the back of an elephant
By Anu Kumar
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Meet Sujata and Asoka, the Indo-German dancers who charmed Hollywood in the 1950s
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Udham Singh the freedom fighter, motor mechanic and movie actor
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Much more than qawwali: Revisiting Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the film soundtrack composer
By Devarsi Ghosh
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Book versus movie: It’s a tie between Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Namesake’ and Mira Nair’s screen version
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Unfinished business: The movies that Guru Dutt announced and abandoned
By Karan Bali
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India’s loss, Pakistan’s gain: The journey of singing great Noor Jehan after 1947
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The ‘hiptullha’ friendship between Manto and the actor Shyam
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Background notes: Menezes, Narvekar, and the untold history of violinists in Hindi film music
By Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
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Between music composer, Jaidev and the big league stood that thing called fate
By Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
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Audio master: ‘Kismet’ laid the foundation of the Hindi film song as we know it
By Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
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The alternative Kishore Kumar playlist that is just as good as his most popular songs
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Audio master: The blockbuster combination of Guru Dutt and OP Nayyar in ‘Aar Paar’
By Rudradeep Bhattacharjee
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