When Vicky Kaushal got rejected in his first audition for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)

Farhan Akhtar’s Bhaag Milkha Bhaag won many awards and accolades and went on to become the biggest hit of the filmmaker-actor-singer’s career.  If things had worked out for Vicky Kaushal, he would have made his debut with this Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra hit in 2013.  In a recent interview with Filmfare magazine, Kaushal, the audience’s current favourite, revealed … Read more

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra at IFFI 2018

Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra believes that screenplay is about subtexts and moments, never about camera movements. “For me, a screenplay is never written. It is always rewritten, and rewritten and rewritten. A lot of times you mistake a story as a screenplay. I don’t think it’s that,” the Rang De Basanti (2006) filmmaker said while … Read more

Truth should never be commodified: FTII professor Sandeep Chatterjee

What do the Hindi films Manto, Gold, Sanju, Pad Man, Marathi film Aani… Dr Kashinath Ghanekar and Telugu film Mahanati have in common? Well, for one, they were all released this year. And they are all biopics on public figures. While biopics are being made by the dozen since the success of Bhaag Milka Bhaag (2013) and … Read more