Sukanya Verma celebrates the singing legend who passed into the ages on April 12. IMAGE: Asha Bhosle in Mumbai, August 9, 2023. Photograph: Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff Her voice reminds me of tiramisu.

Far beneath the glossy surface, beyond all the glitz and glam, lies a layer in Bollywood stained by the blood, sweat and tears of countless people who are now long forgotten. While the “hard work” of ...

In the late 1940s, Sri AV Meiyappa Chettiar of AVM Productions and Sri MV Raman, the producer-director, went to the Gokhale Hall in Madras (now Chennai) to watch the performance of a young ...

When a young Jay is asked to choose a birthday present from a toy shop, he walks all the way to the back to dust off an old toy guitar no one seems to want. His father, upset at this choice, slaps him ...

While I was waiting for my turn to interview AR Rahman, in the lobby of a five star hotel in Juhu, I found out that I'd been sitting next to his driver, Abbas. Abbas drives him around only when the ...