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TopicAmitabh Bachchan

Topic: Amitabh Bachchan

Age-gap romances are tricky in India. Here’s how Bollywood navigates them

Tina Das -
Cheeni Kum challenged many conventions. It didn’t shy away from addressing concerns of a man in his sixties, from ‘keeping up’ with his much younger partner.

‘Mohabbatein let me play a character my age,’ Amitabh Bachchan said

Triya Gulati -
Aditya Chopra took five years to make Mohabbatein. The film’s emotional core remained the same as DDLJ— love vs patriarchal authority.

Over five decades, 300 films—Asrani outlasted noise of stardom through character acting

Sakshi Mehra -
He was the bridge connecting the era of legendary actors like Bachchan and Khanna in the 70s, Govinda and Salman Khan in the 90s, and even later, in films like Malamaal Weekly and Dhamaal.

Bachchan’s revenge drama Adalat heralded the ‘woman in refrigerator’ trope of 1980s

Tina Das -
‘Adalat’ was one of the biggest blockbusters in 1976. However, it is often not counted among Bachchan’s iconic portrayals in the '70s.

KBC completes 25 years. No violence or weeping bahus, just Amitabh Bachchan and his questions

Shailaja Bajpai -
When facts have all but disappeared from political and social discourse, Kaun Banega Crorepati values them — and pays you to get them right.

Kasme Vaade to C.I.D.—Delhi show salutes Bollywood’s poster painters

Tina Das -
'Poster bolte hain' exhibition had 42 posters adorning the second-floor gallery at the National Cooperative Union of India auditorium in Delhi.

In Sholay year, Amitabh Bachchan acted in an Assamese film. It never got released

Nabarun Guha -
Sonti, directed by Ajay Mitra, was an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, with Amitabh Bachchan playing the role of Sonti's father.

Amitabh Bachchan shares Rs 20 Sholay ticket from 1975. ‘Price of a soft drink nowadays’

Tina Das -
‘Sholay’ was released on 15 August 1975 and became a massive hit. Perhaps the film’s upcoming 50th anniversary is on the veteran actor’s mind.

Sunil Dutt sold 7 cars to make Reshma Aur Shera. It’s an Indian Romeo & Juliet story

Triya Gulati -
Set in Jaisalmer, Reshma Aur Shera is a love story caught in the crossfire of family vengeance. It was a Box Office flop but its visual boldness is timeless.

Sholay is 50. What scholars have written about it

Tina Das -
From a widow's muted desire to politics to caste status quo to extra-judicial methods to tackle crime—Sholay is a gift that keeps teaching.
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Opinion

SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

Amana Begam -
India is a country where access to documents and digital systems is still uneven. Election Commission's SIR must not turn into a hostile exercise.

Moderate Democrat victories signal a bigger shift than Mamdani. The party is bouncing back

As Gaza peace plan takes shape, does India have a role?

Economy

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

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With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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