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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicBollywood villains

Topic: Bollywood villains

Bollywood villain Pran sold wife’s bangles to survive in Bombay—then landed 4 films in 3 days

Gulshan Grover, Danny Denzongpa to Pran, Roshmila Bhattacharya's 'Bad Men' reveals the human beings behind Bollywood's most iconic villains.

Who is the new Amrish Puri or Pran? The era of Bollywood villains is over

Movies like Wake up Sid, Vicky Donor, and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani – to name a few – show how the Hindi cinema is devoid of iconic, over the top villains.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.