Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Movies like Laapta Ladies come once in a while. At a time when Bollywood films often rely on excesses of sex and nudity to attract audiences, this film stands apart with its simplicity, warmth and meaningful storytelling. Frankly, I didn’t have very high expectations from Laapta Ladies. The title itself confused me […]Read More
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Rajkumari Sharma Tankha Born and brought up in undivided Bihar, Amitabh S Verma moved to Delhi for his undergraduate studies – he did his graduation in Sociology from Hindu College and PG from Delhi School of Economics. But post this, he joined Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) for a course in Film Editing […]Read More
Upasana Kaura The movie, Laal Singh Chaddha, may have been in news for all the wrong reasons but it gave India a new actor – Gitikka Ganju Dhar. The noted Host made her Bollywood debut as Manjeet Maasi, a part of Chaddha’s family. Gitikka started her career as an anchor hosting live shows in 2000 […]Read More
Team L&M Sudhanshu Rai is nothing if not creative. At different times, he dons different hats – he is a storyteller one day and a director next, actor on some days and a filmmaker on others. Ask him which one of these roles he likes the most, and he cannot answer. “Each is equally dear,” […]Read More
A tribute to legendary actor Meena Kumari on her 85th birth anniversary Saurabh Tankha My first memory of watching the great Meena Kumari on screen for the maiden occasion was in Pakeezah. I must have seen the 1972 Indian classic cult movie more than a decade after its release and I simply fell in love […]Read More