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TopicShatrughan Sinha

Topic: Shatrughan Sinha

Shatrughan Sinha was Bollywood’s villain. ‘Kalicharan’ made him a hero

Before Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Don’, Shatrughan Sinha played a cop-and-con double role in the 1976 film ‘Kalicharan’.

Kaala Patthar is about workers’ woe. It has real Angry Young Bachchan

What stands out in Kaala Patthar is its inclusion of working women as characters. Parveen Babi is a journalist, Neetu Singh is a bangle seller, and Rakhee plays Doctor Sudha.

Blind man, cheating wife, bumbling cop—Sanjeev Kumar’s ‘Qatl’ was a perfect Bollywood thriller

‘Qatl’ was Sanjeev Kumar’s last film; he finished dubbing it a day before he died. The premise of the film: Who will believe a blind man can plan the perfect crime?

‘Hum do, Humare do,’ Shatrughan Sinha’s dig at Modi govt’s new income tax regime

The TMC leader alleged that the Union Budget 2023 presented in Parliament Wednesday has nothing special for the middle class.

BJP’s slide in West Bengal continues as TMC clinches parliamentary, assembly bypolls

TMC's Shatrugan SInha, Babul Supriyo won Asansol MP seat and Ballygunge MLA seat despite BJP's shrill campaign on law and order issues

In fielding ‘outsider’ Shatrughan Sinha for Asansol bypoll, Mamata takes a lesson from BJP

TMC is fielding ‘Bihari babu’ Shatrughan Sinha from Asansol LS seat, which it has never won. The party is aiming for non-Bengali votes and a more diverse image, TMC leaders say.

Mamata picks Shatrughan Sinha, Babul Supriyo as TMC candidates for Bengal bypoll

Making the announcement on Twitter, TMC supremo Banerjee shared that Sinha will contest for the Lok Sabha by-election from Asansol seat, and Supiyo for Ballygunge assembly.

There was a premonition surrounding Sanjeev Kumar’s death. His friends and family knew

'An Actor’s Actor' by Hanif Zaveri and Sumant Batra provides a glimpse of Sanjeev Kumar's personal and professional life from his birth to death.

Badlaav the buzzword for Shatrughan Sinha’s son & others in Bankipur, against BJP heavyweight

ThePrint gets on the campaign trail in Bihar's Bankipur where 3 debutants — Luv Sinha, Manish Barriarr & Pushpam Priya Choudhury — are taking on BJP's Nitin Nabin.

Who’s challenging BJP in Bihar fortress? Oxford, LSE-educated Independents & ‘Shotgun’s’ son

BJP’s Nitin Nabin has won 3 times from Bankipur. But Manish Barriarr, Pushpam Priya Choudhary & Congress’ Luv Sinha are out to change that.

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From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

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.