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Bollywood’s heroes have a man-child problem. They want to destroy the world over daddy issues

If today’s Bollywood hero does not get emotional validation, he responds with rage, violence, drinking, a machine gun. The slightest emotional inconvenience is a reason to go rogue.

Ravi Valecha, who played young Amitabh Bachchan, opens up about sex abuse on film sets

Ravi Valecha shared that the trauma he went through as a child followed him in his personal life, his marriage and his everyday habits. 

Katha’s Naseeruddin Shah was a gentle hero in Bollywood’s era of angry young men

Sai Paranjpye’s Katha borrows the hare-and-tortoise race to tell a story of two men competing for life and love in a Mumbai chawl.

Amitabh Bachchan and racism? Fans hand him a red card for FIFA post

The veteran actor faces heavy criticism after posting about the racial makeup of the French football squad following their recent victory over Paraguay.

The Angry Young Man is gone. Bollywood now celebrates only the anger

A lot has changed between Amitabh Bachchan's Zanjeer and Ranbir Kapoor's Animal. Today, the hero is the very man the old Angry Young Man used to fight.

Shashi Kapoor & Amitabh Bachchan played twins in Suhaag—a treasure trove of Bollywood cliches

Amitabh Bachchan had already cemented his 'One Man Industry' persona by 1978. And Manmohan Desai brilliantly toned down his 'Angry Young Man' image by pairing him with Shashi Kapoor.

Rakhi Sawant isn’t funny. She just fed the oldest fantasy — two women fighting over a man

Rakhi Sawant's latest comments target Jaya Bachchan as the lesser of the two in the infamous unresolved love triangle between Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya, and fellow actor Rekha.

25 years of ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’—it gave India a not-so-angry Amitabh Bachchan

As an actor, Amitabh Bachchan was familiar with the graph of his characters. As an anchor of a reality show, there were new challenges every day.

Dear Amitabh Bachchan, put PM Modi in the hot seat in 2026

Why can’t we see BJP chief ministers like Devendra Fadnavis, Bhupendra Patel, Mohan Yadav or Vishnu Deo Sai and Mohan Chandra Majhi under attack? It's about time we recognise them.

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

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.

On Camera

Srinagar’s cinemas may have gone dark. Kashmir’s love for films never did

It seemed like J&K's battered past had taken a backseat, even if it was for the four days of the international film festival.

Global funds sour on India stocks as some cut allocation to zero

Weak corporate earnings and the lack of an AI investment theme are prompting global investors to cut India exposure.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.