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Remembering the man behind Citizen Kane
Omair Alavi|Instep|October 13, 2019
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Remembering the golden age of Hindi cinema
Bollywood has been producing films for over a century but no decade has given more meaningful films to the world than the ones that formed the Golden Era.
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Reliving the magnum opus
There is no bigger film in Indian film history than K. Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam and if you don’t believe it, you will turn into a believer after reading Shakil Warsi’s Mughal-e-Azam: An Epic of Eternal Love. The book describ
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Read to Reel
Omair Alavi|Instep|February 23, 2020
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How the commander got away with murder
Would you be interested in reading about a murder case that took place six decades ago in India and which was discussed predominantly in the newspapers of that era? Yes, considering the murderer and the murdered were hig
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Taking a trip down memory lane
The names Marty McFly and Doc Brown are as important to time travel as Issac Newton is to gravity and Neil Armstrong is to moon landing. In Caseen Gaines’ We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
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The agony and ecstasy of success
Did you know that Amitabh Bachchan is hardly late on a film set, even now in his 70s? Or that before becoming Mr. Perfectionist, Aamir Khan delivered a series of flops in the 90s? Or that Shah Rukh Khan was hesitant to d
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From Alif to Noon
When the history of humor and satire in Pakistan will be written, Kamal Ahmed Rizvi’s Alif Aur Noon will always make the list.
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The world according to the joker
Omair Alavi|Instep|October 20, 2019
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There’s still something about Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan, also known as Junior Bachchan, celebrated his 43rd Birthday earlier this month, and we picked up photojournalist Pradeep Chandra’s Abhishek Bachchan - Style and Substance to understand the life and car