Sampada Sharma

2 months ago | indianexpress.com | Sampada Sharma

It was somewhere in the early 1990s that Aamir Khan got the nickname of ‘Mr Perfectionist’ from veteran actor Shabana Azmi. During an appearance on Kapil Sharma’s show, Aamir recalled that he was once visiting the actor at her house and when she asked how much sugar he wanted in his tea, Aamir gave a rather strange response. “What is the size of the cup?” After inspecting the cup, he asked “How big is the spoon?” It was after examining these two variables that Aamir calculated his answer.

Mar 7, 2025 | indianexpress.com | Sampada Sharma

‘What do we do now?’ Ten years ago, Reese Witherspoon gave a powerful speech at an event where she pointed out that in most popular films, at a critical juncture in the plot, a breathless and confused-looking woman turns to a man and asks him, “What do we do now?” Reese pointed out that this idea that a woman wouldn’t know how to handle a crisis was completely bizarre but she noticed that no one in Hollywood cared enough and they didn’t mind presenting women as distressed damsels.

Mar 7, 2025 | indianexpress.com | Sampada Sharma

Days before the release of Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer, Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, the screenwriter duo popularly known as Salim-Javed, decided on an act of rebellion. They got their name painted on to the posters of Zanjeer all over the city of Mumbai, leaving Bollywood shocked. No one expected screenwriters to have a say, let alone scream from the rooftops that the films everyone was enjoying, were written by them.

Mar 7, 2025 | flipboard.com | Sampada Sharma

NowHear musical blends of the Indian subcontinent with dance, folk, jazz, pop, classical music and opera in work by sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun, tabla player Sarathy Korwar and Upaj Collective, Anoushka Shankar and Alev Lenz, and sarangi player Suhail Yusuf Khan in collaboration with James Yorkston …

Feb 25, 2025 | indianexpress.com | Sampada Sharma

In 2025, the word outsider is often used in the context of nepotism but for Danny, it was for his looks. When he was first cast in a supporting role in Gulzar’s film Mere Apne, which starred Vinod Khanna and Shatrughan Sinha, he put in the work to prepare for his role but in this process, he found that a regular person living in Mumbai in the 1970s saw him as an exotic being. “I went to meet a puppeteer in Santa Cruz to prepare for the role. Soon, the neighbouring kids surrounded me.