In a year where Telugu cinema was at its most nostalgic, yearning for the comfort of older aesthetics, older forms of storytelling, old-fashioned romance, and the simplicity in older representations ...

Fifty-three years ago, a lanky, deep-voiced actor burst onto the screens in a little-seen film named Saat Hindustani. Fifty-three years later, Hindi cinema seems unimaginable without him. He was the ...