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Prithviraj says his Mumbai Police role was 'against the grain', opens up about rejecting Karan Johar's Bombay Talkies: 'Didn't want to do similar characters back-to-back'

July 25, 2025 8:36 pm

Prithviraj Sukumaran revealed that he turned down the opportunity to work with Karan Johar in Bombay Talkies because he didn’t want to portray back-to-back gay characters following Mumbai Police.

When Amitabh Bachchan allowed Anurag Kashyap's film crew to shoot inside Jalsa compound, revealed rare glimpses of family bungalow. Watch

March 21, 2023 1:50 pm

Anurag Kashyap got the rare opportunity to film inside the compound of Amitabh Bachchan's Mumbai home Jalsa for his film Murabba, which was a part of the anthology Bombay Talkies.

Bombay Talkies: How India fell in love with films

February 28, 2019 5:03 pm

Dadasaheb DG Phalke is considered the father of Indian movies, with his Raja Harishchandra, which released in 1913. Interestingly, as acting was not considered respectable for women, all women's roles were played by male actors (as was the norm in popular theatre as well).

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Bombay Talkies studio to be revived with anti-Gandhi film

January 04, 2016 7:37 pm

Bombay Talkies is now all set to be revived with an anti-Gandhi film titled "Gandhi vs Aazaad".

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Living in Light and Shadow

October 11, 2015 8:00 am

German cinematographer Josef Wirsching shot some of the landmark silent and talkie movies of India. An ambitious crowd-funding project aims to re-introduce his work in the public domain.

Glad to have worked with Sadashiv Amrapurkar in 'Bombay Talkies': Dibakar Bannerjee

November 04, 2014 4:02 pm

Dibakar Bannerjee's short movie "Star" in the episodic movie "Bombay Talkies" was Sadashiv Amrapurkar's last appearance in Hindi cinema.

The talk show

April 09, 2014 12:37 pm

In the play Bombay Talkies, seven characters share their anguish, hopes, desires, memories, fears and ambitions through monologues

Nawazuddin plays a struggling Writer

January 10, 2014 1:49 am

After a good run at the box office, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has an interesting line-up of films in 2014.

Filmy fun ends on last day of Chandigarh Carnival

November 25, 2013 1:54 am

The citys three-day mega event,Chandigarh Carnival,concluded at Leisure Valley on Sunday.

Voice of Experience

September 17, 2013 5:14 am

The album is trilingual,with songs written in English,Bengali and Hindi.

Among dead in Vijay rally stampede, young mother, couple set to marry

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A rally by actor-politician Vijay in Velusamypuram ended tragically with 40 deaths in a stampede. Non-political workers gathered to see the superstar, but exhaustion, heat, and poor planning caused chaos. People collapsed, ambulances couldn't reach, and police presence was inadequate. Vijay's team ignored instructions, and the narrow roads and insufficient crowd control added to the tragedy.

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