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Topic: Hindi cinema

Meena Kumari, tragedy queen on screen and accomplished poet off it

Pia Krishnankutty -
The actor began her 33-year career as a child, and went on to act in films like Majhli Didi, Pakeezah, Baiju Bawra and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam.

The isolation of Bhuvan Shome is all too real in a time of social distancing

Samira Sood -
Mrinal Sen’s classic New Wave film starring Utpal Dutt also launched the career of Amitabh Bachchan who went on to become a superstar.

Kabir Khan’s new show on Netaji’s INA will ask questions about history and idea of India

Samira Sood -
Exploring untold stories from Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauj, director Kabir Khan hopes to start conversations about secularism and the need to not distort history.

M.S. Sathyu’s Garm Hava still speaks to a country wrestling with questions over citizenship

Samira Sood -
The story of a Muslim family in post-Partition India and the troubles they faced is a powerful call to humanity.

Hum Log, India’s first soap opera and DD’s experiment with foreign cinema

Fiza Jha -
The family drama with a social message, Hum Log was a pan-India favourite that everyone identified with.

Shailendra — the Leftist poet and Dalit genius whose lyrics define beauty of simplicity

Fiza Jha -
Shailendra, the prolific lyricist, who straddled the worlds of communism and Bombay’s film industry, wrote over 900 songs.

Durga Khote, the ‘mother’ of Hindi & Marathi cinema who broke social taboos

Revathi Krishnan -
Durga Khote made a name for herself as a lead actor before Independence & as a ‘mother’ after it. She also acted as Lady Macbeth and started her own ad agency.

Do Raaste cemented Rajesh Khanna’s position as Bollywood’s first superstar

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Do Raaste shows how a middle-class Indian family tries to adjust when people with different outlook share the same roof.

Dangal actor Zaira Wasim says Bollywood leading her away from faith, quits acting

PTI -
In a detailed Facebook post, the young Kashmiri-born actor said she realised "though I may fit here perfectly, I do not belong here".

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.
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Opinion

Pakistani accomplices, shootouts, sealed chargesheet—how the 7/11 blasts case fell apart

+TFP Praveen Swami -
After 19 years, the Bombay High Court finally held what governments and intelligence services have long known: The men sentenced for their role in the bombings had nothing to do with it.

Jagdeep Dhankhar’s abrupt exit says three things about the Modi govt

Air India crash report shows an institutional reform of AAIB and aviation ministry is in order

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

Snehesh Alex Philip -
PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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