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Topic: Bollywood

Sultan to Bharat: Salman Khan’s mega success features a Delhi University biochemistry grad

Kaveree Bamzai -
Ali Abbas Zafar is a master at disguising the subtext in the opulent, big-budget spectaculars he has been delivering.

Mujhe Jeene Do: When Sunil Dutt shattered inter-faith marriage taboo while playing a dacoit

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Written by Sunil Dutt’s closest friend, Aghajani Kashmeri, the script of this 1963 film isn’t black and white, even if the picture was.

Indian cinema’s C-problem: When an upper caste gets to play Jyotiba Phule

Dilip Mandal -
Marathi cinema had phenomenal success with Sairat, and yet the industry could find only Brahmin actors to play Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule.

Mrinal Sen’s Padatik, about dispirited Communists in 1970s Calcutta, is a tale of our times

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Padatik is last in Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta trilogy, in which Communists are risking their lives for a cause that forever seems out of reach.

Akshay Kumar’s Canadian roots go deeper — from campaigning for a PM to owning mansion there

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
Canadian daily National Post wrote that actor Akshay Kumar had once said Toronto is his home and he would go back to Canada after retiring from Bollywood.

Swara Bhasker says her politics has made her a ‘nuisance’ in Bollywood but she won’t stop now

Nandita Singh -
Swara Bhasker makes jokes at the expense of PM Modi, and terms Pragya Singh Thakur a ‘Hindu terror suspect’.

BR Chopra’s Naya Daur is still relevant for an India fighting age-old labour problems

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Naya Daur remains a classic for it captured the lower income groups’ sentiment in the 1950s — not totally anti-machine, but wary enough.

Garden Vareli ads with three Miss Indias made the everyday saree a fashion statement

Mahua Venkatesh -
Top actresses and models – Namrata Shirodkar, Madhu Sapre, Aishwarya Rai and Lisa Ray – were a part of the ads, which gave the saree a new modern twist.

Rishi Kapoor to Sharad Pawar: Why Bollywood wants to talk about cancer and politicians don’t

Kaveree Bamzai -
Indians don't seem particularly keen on politicians who wear their vulnerabilities on their starched kurta sleeves.

Balraj Sahni, the common man’s hero who told their story through cinema

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
On his 106th birth anniversary, ThePrint recounts Balraj Sahni, his illustrious career, life as a writer and activist & his cult movies.
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Opinion

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

K. Kalyani -
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

The Beckhams’ PR game is on track. Victoria’s 50th birthday was a pop culture moment

BJP 2024 manifesto on investment, farm income, panchayati raj—lack of clarity is worrying

Economy

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

Defence

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

ThePrint Team -
The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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