Basu da’s characters offered relief during the era of the Angry Young Man. Chatterjee was an artist who portrayed the life of the common man and chose to tell intimate stories. We live in an age when ...

Films such as Kabir Singh and Animal have normalised toxic masculinity to the point where the gentleness of Arun in the 1976 ...

The ‘seher’ is a deliberate typo in this film’s title, Do Deewane Seher Mein (DDSM). It’s how the lead character would say that word. He’s a Bihari in Mumbai, with his father, a reputed builder, back ...

Veteran actor Asrani once candidly spoke about the rising vulgarity in comedy and how acclaimed filmmakers like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar and Basu Chatterjee gave him roles that pushed boundaries ...