Ideas Without Boundaries.
A little girl of six loses her beloved father. She watches as her young mother sits night after night looking out of the window, as if willing for her father to return. Her grief still raw, the young mother rises above her pain, slowly putting Read More …
She is the niece of the famous Mangeshkar sisters, Lata and Asha. Her grandfather was o a theater giant, her father a classical singer and her mother in the airline industry. It’s not very surprising then that Padmini Kolhapure has never had a problem flying Read More …
His multi-talented writer/director father Surendra Kaul wrote the block buster Namak Halal, his uncles were the legendary and charismatic actor Raaj Kumar, Mahesh Kaul who introduced Hema Malini in Sapnon Ka Saudagar, and Hiren Kera who made Jab Jab Phool Khile and Raja Sahib, and Read More …
His mother is a bio chemist, his father a scientist-he represented Maharashtra in swimming for 13 years, was national champ for four and he is an electrical engineer to boot. But what Milind Soman became famous for, were his chiseled looks, athletic physique and melting Read More …
I think one of the most interesting things about Nagesh Kukunoor’s films is the diversity of genres that he dabbles in. He had told me once that he has a morbid fear of being typecast and wanted to make a film in every genre. So Read More …
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in December threw an already beleaguered Pakistan into further turmoil and even though the major Political parties were all for going to the polls , President Pervez Musharraf chose to postpone the elections from the 8th of January to the Read More …
The images are haunting…. The loaded gun, the fiery bomb blast, and stunned humanity in bloodied tatters and tears. It seems just like yesterday when a tall, lissome 17 year old girl shyly made her way to Simla with her father and charmed an entire Read More …
He wanted to fly the friendly skies and become a pilot, but then his interest turned to architecture. In a family where mom too was a career woman, an older brother who became an engineer and a sister who decided to wield a doc’s scalpel, Read More …
“No situation in life is so serious that one should lose one’s sense of humor.”– Hrishikesh Mukherjee to his granddaughter Sujata Banerji He was a multi-dimensional man with an incomparable mind. My love affair with Hrishikesh Mukherjee began years ago as a child, because of Read More …
A drizzle, breaking tree branches and gray skies could not dim the sunny spirit of thousands who turned up locally and from across the world to see history being made at Harvard on 12th Oct 2007. South Asians, especially those of Indian origin, everywhere, watched Read More …