Since my last column about Saadat Hasan Manto’s story ‘Tamasha’, I came across his sketch ‘Hindi Aur Urdu’ (1954). Then I read Firaq Gorakhpuri’s ‘The Hindi-Urdu Issue.’ I encountered new ideas about ...

There has been a huge wave of uncertainty prevailing in the film fraternity. What exactly is happening? There has been an apprehension that the South is taking over and filling in for the Hindi films.

There are columns written on the invasion of the South films and film stars, and that Hindi stars have ceded the ground and the Hindi audience is lapping up the content from the South. Is any such ...

The topic in discussion for the last few weeks has been the rise of the dubbed South Indian films, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and, to an extent, Malayalam, in the Hindi belt, where a lot many South films ...