While Bollywood banked on brawn, Deepika Padukone spent her birthday week rewriting the rules of the producer's chair - one messy, human story at a ti...
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Before Sanjay Leela Bhansali handed us Alia Bhatt in a chiffon saree, Manto was already writing about women who stabbed, seduced, and defied - then faced the courts for it. Imagine it's January 1948, Bombay - Mahatma Gandhi has just been shot, the nation's bleeding, and a writer sits down with a dagger, a dying man, and a woman named Kulwant who refuses to be anyone's victim. That story? Thanda Gosht. “Cold Flesh”. Published in March 1950, it landed Saadat Hasan Manto in court on obscenity charges. But what actually scandalized the censors wasn't just the violence or the affair - it was Kulwant herself, a woman with agency, jealousy, and a willingness to stab her lover when he couldn't perform. The Woman They Couldn't Censor Here's the thing nobody talks about: Manto wrote defiant women a full 70 years before Gangubai Kathiawadi became a talking point. Kulwant isn't sympathetic. ...
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He died penniless in a New York hotel room, but his "mad" sketches now live in your pocket and buzz on your nightstand. Every January 7th, the scie...
Long before he became cinema's quietest powerhouse, Jaipur’s Sahabzade was an all-rounder who found his voice on the pitch - and almost traded the cam...
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