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By Devika Kohli: 'Qissa', an internationally acclaimed movie directed by Anup Singh, is the first film to be shot under an Indian-German collaboration. The film, released in Indian theaters on 20th...
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By PV Durga: Switching on the TV, watching a Telugu music channel, and ending up watching an audio launch, has pretty much been typical of Sunday evenings. The event would be graced by the who’s who...
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By Gayle Sequeira: When Thomas Harris first conceived of 'Red Dragon', the first novel in his Hannibal series in 1981, little did he know that he had struck gold. A franchise so vast, it comprises of...
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By Kruti Joshi: "Marriage without purpose is low IQ". This is a quote that stuck with me through my two hour experience of watching 'Piku'. The Deepika Padukone-Amitabh Bachchan starrer was a...
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By Tanvi Pal: I am a budding director and a classical dancer, in short, an artist in the making. While working towards a new script based on the lives of artists, I randomly started typing “Being an...
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