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• Do not equate the ISI with all of Pakistan

  Broadcast On October 9, 2016

  ... or is it conveniently forgotten? It would be not just foolish to ban Pakistani actors from Bollywood films or boycott the films they star in, it would also be diminishing and demeaning of ourselves. That ...

• A ‘donation’ that will be returned

  Broadcast On October 30, 2016

  ... soldiers on our borders, who are prepared to lay down their lives, have demanded a ban on Bollywood films with Pakistani actors. That simply isn’t true. As far as I know, not a single officer or jawan ...

• Why Twitter isn't quite my character at all

  Broadcast On October 1, 2017

  These days when everyone, from Modi and Trump, Hollywood and Bollywood actors, authors and journalists and hundreds of million more, is on Twitter I’m often asked why I’m not. With nearly 350 million people ...

• Let the beating retreat march to its own beat

  Broadcast On February 4, 2018

  ... thrill the audience. The bands themselves were uplifted by the music. Military marches have that effect. Imitations of Bollywood do not. Finally, as the sun dipped below the horizon and the evening shadows ...

• Mee Raqsam is a modern masterpiece

  Broadcast On August 30, 2020

  I’m not a film buff. If someone praises a movie I might make an effort to catch it but there are more good films I miss than I get to see. That’s as true of Hollywood as it is of Bollywood or any other ...

• Health workers: The soldiers of our times

  Broadcast On September 13, 2020

  ... tricolour, his funeral is broadcast on television and a grateful nation will honour him with medals and citations. In due course, Bollywood will romanticise his memory.   Nothing of the sort happens ...

• NEERAJ-ARSHAD WARMTH ECHOES SHARED CULTURE

  Broadcast On August 18, 2024

  ... 44 years ago. A lot has happened since. The pre-partition generation has died, politics divides and doesn’t fascinates us and Bollywood films are no longer the same. And, yet, we still look alike, speak ...

• CENSORING ‘SANTOSH’ AND THE TRUTH OF POLICE TORTURE

  Broadcast On April 6, 2025

  ... this film is important for us to see. I know Bollywood frequently depicts police high-handedness but it does so in a mild and sanitized way. There’s always a relieving good side. That’s not the case with ...

• MF HUSAIN: MAN AND MYTH, ART AND ARTIST

  Broadcast On October 12, 2025

  ... She died when he was a year and half old and he had no memory of what she looked like. Thus, the Mother Teresa portraits are faceless.   In the 1930s M. F. Husain went to Bombay and painted Bollywood ...

• THE UGLY INDIAN AND OTHER STORIES OF RACISM

  Broadcast On October 19, 2025

  ... Fair and Lovely? Bollywood stars had no compunction personally advertising such products.   In 2008, when he was President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, I interviewed Sharad Pawar about ...

• Shahrukh Khan

  Broadcast On February 26, 2000

  Indian film actor Shahrukh Khan, the 'Badsha' of Bollywood or the King Khan talks about his life and films in Face to Face  ...