EXCLUSIVE: Fortunate to be baba’s daughter, says actress Koel Mallick, lays bare her bond with screen veteran Ranjit Mallick

In an exclusive interview with Connected to India, hosted by veteran film critic and journalist Shoma A Chatterji, Koel opened up about the advice her father gave, which helped her choose a career path.

Harried To Be Married: Pushpendra Sharma’s debut novel is a culmination of his longstanding curiosity about arranged marriages

Set in the mid 1990s, the story follows Nikhil Jha — a Wall Street investment banker — and the emotional blackmail he faces from his mother, who wants nothing more in the world than to see her son get married.

EXCLUSIVE: Berlin actor Aparshakti Khurana reveals how Sunny Deol made him bawl his eyes out

Aparshakti, who plays Pushkin Verma in Berlin, which is streaming on ZEE5 Global, sat down with Connected to India Himanshu Verma for an exclusive virtual interview ahead of the film’s release.

“Always wanted to talk about women through cinema”: Actress Paoli Dam opens up on women’s empowerment, feminism and equality

Paoli Dam, who came to national prominence with the portrayal of bold and daring Kaavya Krishna in the 2012 film Hate Story, got her first break three years prior in the Bengali film Kaalbela.

Bangalore’s Cubbon Park poet Ruby Naaz asks mums to pull down patriarchy in heartfelt open letter

Ruby, who collaborated with Connected to India for the poem, titled, Hello Mother, wrote it amid the growing violence and atrocities against women in India, the recent being the brutal rape and murder of a junior lady doctor at the state-run RG Kar Hospital in Kolkata, the state capital of eastern India’s West Bengal.

Abir Chatterjee opens up about his journey as an actor, failed cricket dreams and how television elevated him

Hailing from a family of theatre and television actors, Abir Chatterjee followed in the footsteps of his parents, Falguni and Rumki Chatterjee, but had to give up on his dream of representing India in cricket. The 43-year-old actor, who is one of the top talents in the Bengali industry currently, made his acting debut with […]

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