By | Monday, 27 Nov, 2017
This is a Bachchan story you won’t read anywhere else. It’s not so much about Amitabh Bachchan. This is about his distinguished father, the legendary Hindi poet Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan, whose 100th birth anniversary it.....
By Mark Manuel | Friday, 01 Feb, 2019
The first time I met Sonam Kapoor, it was like a tradeoff with her father, that old Bollywood warhorse Anil Kapoor. This was November 2007. She was making her debut with Ranbir Kapoor in Sanjay.....
By | Monday, 21 Jan, 2019
I knew Balasaheb Thackeray personally. And I knew him well. Well enough for the Shiv Sena supremo to open a bottle of French white wine for me and invite me to smoke a Cuban cigar.....
By Mark Manuel | Monday, 14 Jan, 2019
You and I and the rest of Bollywood are still celebrating Rohit Shetty’s Simmba that released on December 28. But the filmmaker himself has moved on. He’s onto his next cop film. The ambitious Sooryavanshi.....
By Mark Manuel | Thursday, 06 Dec, 2018
Sunday afternoon, 3.30 o’clock, I met Sara Ali Khan at the Sun n Sand in Juhu for an interview. I watched her arriving. On the button. Elegantly stepping out of her car. Then sweeping majestically.....
By Mark Manuel | Tuesday, 27 Nov, 2018
Akshay Kumar, dressed in khaki three-fourths and a black tee, loafers on his feet, strolled in off Juhu Beach and sat down to chat with me about 2.0. Some kids were doing somersaults in.....
By Mark Manuel | Saturday, 20 Oct, 2018
Back in the day, Shilpa Shetty’s family and mine knew each other. We lived in opposite buildings at Mazagaon. A good old Catholic quarter in what was then Bombay. It had a village.....
By Mark Manuel | Thursday, 13 Sep, 2018
Sunny Leone, to my great joy, was wearing shorts. White and high waist. That showcased her lovely legs nicely. And a nude off-the-shoulder top with ruffled sleeves. She tick-tocked carefully across the.....