Ideas Without Boundaries.
Conversations with creative minds from Bollywood and Hollywood, including multi-talented actors, directors and writers.
He calls him self an atheist and a rationalist, his close friend Chanda calls him a “closet spiritualist” because she says, no atheist could have written a deeply spiritual song like “O paalan hare” (from Lagaan) to which he retorts, that he also wrote the Read More …
Kavita’s note (27 December 2013): I remember the first time I met Farooque Sheikh. It was over a decade ago in Atlanta. I had been a big fan of his films, and his work in general. He was on yet another tour of “Tumhari Amrita” Read More …
“Innovation is born out of people challenging the status quo.” By Kavita A Chhibber She was among the select few who were named 2010 Game Changers by The New York Enterprise Report. “These entrepreneurs are changing how business gets done,” said the tagline. Yet what Read More …
Sachin Bhowmick on Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Incomparable Babu Moshai He has had one of the most successful careers in Indian Cinema. Almost everything his pen touches turns into gold-or should I say a golden story, and yet when Sachin Bhowmick tried to catch the legendary Read More …
Where the Reel meets the Real. It is so simple to be happy, but it is so difficult to be simple”– from Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s film Bawarchi Chess is a game of complex psychological twists and turns and clever moves, and Hrishikesh Mukherjee was a master Read More …
When I look at some of Hrishi da’s early films, I’m struck by his liberalism and pragmatism. Anuradha (made in 1960) talks about the sacrifice of a famous singer for her doctor husband and who feels a renewed attraction for her lover when he walks Read More …
He won the Gladrags Manhunt competition in 1999 with his flowing locks, good looks and an eight pack at a time when people didn’t know what an eight pack was. He then went on to place 2nd in the international competition strutting his stuff against Read More …
Deepti Naval talks about how her relationship with Hrishi da went beyond the two films she did with him.
I don’t consider myself big enough to give people a message. But people should remain happy.” – Hrishikesh Mukherjee He would have turned 85 on 30th September – the man of the masses whose films showcased the middle class of India and humanity with all Read More …
I feel that I’m at a stage in my life now where life is just about to really speed up and flash by and so I feel like I am on old man river paddling on a little row boat.” – Heath Ledger My introduction Read More …
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