The Chatterbox takes us on exciting journeys into moviedom and gastronomy as she talks about her two favourite things in life!

Of Satya and Asatya (5th September 2002)
The hero is no longer the Mr. Clean, he may well be in cahoots with mafia dons - no grays here, it's all black. Come to think of it, these men have an excuse for being evil - it is their bread and butter...

Let's be Friends... (22nd August 2002)
To them India is some desolate half-civilized overgrown village, desperately trying to compete with their civilized west, where they've been brought up...

The First City... (15th August 2002)
For anyone who has never stayed in Delhi, well, you've missed something. Where else would you struggle to see the sun in a grey, hazy atmosphere, you can just about make out the sky from the smog...

Assembly Line Saas Bahus? (8th August 2002)
So then, the long list of Balaji's serials is a what's what of TV soaps today. What, however, strikes one is the perfect uniformity of actresses in all these serials...

Little Indiscretions (1st August 2002)
A good old romp in the hay and presto, a solemn doctor checks the pulse of a damsel who has fainted at a party, and declares, 'she is going to be a mother'...

The All New Devdas (25th July 2002)
I should be asking: will I be able to laugh and cry with Shahrukh like my Dad did with a Dilip Kumar or my grandpa (he never told me though) would have done with Sehgal?

Changing Locales (13th June 2002)
Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand… you name it, you got it. In the foreground all and sundry are pledging undying love. The green hills and meadows present a very pleasant picture background...

Chin Chin Chu (6th June 2002)
They were beautiful; they were desirable, but not respectable. They could not be taken home to mother; they could not be worshipped as the virgin goddess...

Ruk-Tabu-Ruk (30th May 2002)
...she's this generation's answer to Shabana Azmi, or even Dimple and Shabana rolled into one, as she certainly combines the best of brains with a gorgeous face atop a perfect height...

Has Amour Died? (23rd May 2002)
The young lovers were beautiful, silent. There were silent looks, explosive accidental touches and unspoken passion. No one could know they were in love but they were, and how!

Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan… (16th May 2002)
For Mumbaikars, the world is divided into two types of people, those who stay in South Bombay and those who stay elsewhere. There's no third variety…

Dialogue Delivery Through the Eras (9th May 2002)
The Indian film has been a great chunk of culture since the late 1890s. In fact the earliest films in India were made in Mumbai and Pune and had major stage actors playing lead roles…

Yeh To Kamaal Ho Gaya (2nd May 2002)
The demi god of South Indian cinema was just another Madrasi for Hindi filmgoers. Very few Hindi filmgoers could identify with the king of creativity, Kamal Hasan…

National Disintegration (25th April 2002)
India is a united country with divided opinions, especially when it comes to film star preferences…

Anil Kapoor - Forever Young (18th April 2002)
...he has been a parallel hero to number one for almost 20 years now, never a rage but never out of sight either. He is the industry's dependable bet. He can sizzle hearts in a Mills and Boon romance like Lamhe, equally endearing as a clean shaven eighteen-year-old as he is as a graying forty year old…

Asoka the Not-so-Great (11th April 2002)
Asoka, however, is a dream; he has been reported as saying. He thought about it since his school days, the human side of a king who gave up violence after winning a long and bloody battle…

United Colours of Bollywood (4th April 2002)
Though the two most important centers of art and culture in India were Calcutta in the East and Madras in the South, it was Bombay that was the nerve center for the business of entertainment.…

The Last Decade - Nineties (28th March 2002)
A fresh new boy , a coy and pretty young girl and a snow-white kabootar were all it took to sweep an entire nation with romantic hysteria. The songs were everywhere…

The Energetic Eighties (14th March 2002)
More glamour, more love, more romance, more prettiness… more foreign locales and of course, more Amitabh Bachchan with Rakhee, more AB with Rekha, more AB with Neetu Singh, more AB with Parveen Babi, Zeenat Aman, with Smita Patil, with Rekha, even with Sridevi…

The Sexy Seventies (28th February 2002)
The entire philosophy of love in the seventies could be summed up in Bobby's opening lines - mujhse dosti karoge?

The Swinging Sixties (21st February 2002)
A petite Saira Bano or a voluptuous Asha Parekh in pastel lipsticks were usually swept off their feet by a clowning, intense-eyed Shammi Kapoor or a lipsticked Rajendra Kumar. Occasionally a macho Sunil Dutt or a very handsome Shashi Kapoor would do it more serenely...

The Feverish Fifties (14th February 2002)
Very few can forget the universally famous scene of Raj Kapoor kissing the back of Nargis's neck while clasping a (stolen) necklace around her neck. It was sensuous, it was torrid enough for the generation… it was love...