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Riteish Deshmukh: The Making of an Actor

By Lavina Melwani • Jan 15th, 2010 • Category: 24/7 Talk is Cheap - The Blog, Cinema

It’s not every morning that you get to chat with a big Bollywood star even before you’ve had your morning cup of tea. So there I was, a bit bleary-eyed with the hot star Riteish Deshmukh on the phone, me in New York and he in Mumbai.

His big movie, the Ram Gopal Varma film ‘Rann’ is being released this month, and so Riteish was chatting up the international media. We talked about Rann, Amitabh Bachchan, and how Riteish developed his passion for cinema


Bollywood Grows Up

By Lavina Melwani • Feb 3rd, 2009 • Category: Cinema

Yes, Bollywood in all its avatars is eternal and continues to take audiences on a seductive, addictive emotional roller coaster ride. Long live the 800 pound gorilla!