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Indira Gandhi to Zeenat Aman, my mother kept extensive notes on Indian women: Sagarika Ghose

I lost my mother on 15 January. Her notebooks revealed to me the restless often tortured quest that Indian women embarked on to find voice, visibility and equality.

Manoranjan—1974 film defied moral police. Zeenat Aman played an independent sex worker

Bright outfits, exaggerated comic scenes, and the lack of long-drawn emotional moments make Manoranjan entertaining. But it was a box office failure.

Bollywood doesn’t know how to make biopics of ‘bold’ actors. Zeenat Aman right to worry

Movies about Praveen Babi, Silk Smitha have treated them as victims, and emotional trainwrecks. The missing ingredient in both cases was input from the actor or those close to them.

5 Bollywood legends who returned in 2023 to steal the show

From Zeenat Aman’s stunning Instagram debut to Sharmila Tagore’s comeback on the silver screen, these Bollywood legends showed the curtains never really came down for them.

Zeenat Aman is barefoot, grey-haired. Her first week on Instagram is all chill

There is an unmissable ease to her posts. She creates a warm and casual space that is open to all.

Zeenat Aman makes her Instagram debut — ‘Actor. Mother. Maverick’

In one of her posts, the actress talked about Bollywood in the 70s, its male domination and how, at times, she was the only woman on set.

Feroz Khan’s Qurbani is stylish and sexy and doesn’t take itself too seriously

A high-octane action flick starring Feroz Khan, Zeenat Aman and Vinod Khanna, Qurbani was a smash hit in 1980 and is great fun even today.

Feroz Khan, the actor and filmmaker who made every movie a style statement

Feroz Khan brought the wild west to Bollywood with his leather boots, hats and cigars, and he did it with swag.

Bollywood’s definitive ‘masala’ film, Yaadon Ki Baarat tops the hall of fame

With an excellent soundtrack and a fast-paced and entertaining plot, Yaadon Ki Baraat established Zeenat Aman as a star.

‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ — a deeply conservative film that gave Bollywood its ‘boldest’ actor

Dev Anand’s film Hare Rama Hare Krishna, starring Zeenat Aman, gave India both its Rakhi and hippie anthem.

On Camera

Bads of Bollywood brought Emraan Hashmi out of our guilty pleasure closet, made him cool

With his cameo in Bads of Bollywood, Emraan Hashmi, who has long shifted away from his signature bold image, got the chance to revive his boyhood charm.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Govt inks deal with HAL for 97 new Tejas Mk1A; previous order’s deliveries likely to begin next yr

There were no plans to have Mk1A version. However, compromise was reached between HAL & IAF in 2015 since original plan for getting Mk2 would've been time-consuming affair.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.