The sex film that wasn't - on Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Sabse Bada Sukh

Another, shorter excerpt from the Hrishikesh Mukherjee book appears in Scroll today: here is the link . This one is more critical in tone, s...

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The first physical copy of the Hrishikesh Mukherjee book reached me last week. My reaction in these situations is to not want to open the th...

On Upendranath Ashk's गिरती दीवारें (now in translation as Falling Walls)

[ Did a version of this review for Open magazine ] The announcement that an Important Book has arrived usually makes me wary, because publis...

The orphans and the community – to Sholay on its 40th anniversary

[ Did this piece for Forbes India ] “Think of a one-line description of Sholay ,” the filmmaker Dibakar Banerjee said a few years ago. I was...

The Aarushi book, contd

Barry was by no account a fan of the book. That she had been invited to the talk—on the insistence of the author himself, a person associate...

The benign terror of Hrishi-da: a book excerpt in Lounge

Today’s Mint Lounge has for its cover an excerpt from The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee – here is the link . (This bit – about Hrishi-da an...

An interview about the Hrishi-da book

[Today is Hrishikesh Mukherjee's death anniversary. On the occasion, I answered a few questions sent across by the website The Quint, ab...