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Legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee breathes his last at the age of 85
Kolkata: In the late 80s came a Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay novel ‘Nana Ronger Aalo’. Still a school student with a deep…
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How soccer’s loss became Hollywood’s gain
For over a month, the 1965 film The Hill was on my watchlist. I kept pushing back, for a variety…
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Jagdeep aka Soorma Bhopali: An actor who stood out among giants passes away
The garrulous, greedy, timber merchant was present on screen for barely five minutes, yet the character gave an immortality that…
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Saroj Khan: A trailblazer who helped the stars to dance their way into the hearts of millions passes away
The image of Sridevi drenched in an almost-blue saree crooning to the voice of Alisha Chinai as a now-here and…
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Basu Chatterjee: A Master Story-teller
About 22-odd minutes into Pankaj Parashar’s Jalwa, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor get off a taxi driven by Javed Khan…
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