Sanjana Sharma* is a confident young professional from a tier-two city in north India with an income of roughly Rs 1 lakh per month. But Sanjana isn’t your average successful professional. She’s one ...

Patronage ensures survival. It is also the route to power. Nobody knows it better than women artists. One of the earliest women Urdu poets, Mah Laqa Bai of Hyderabad, was an adopted daughter of the ...

Once they danced for royalty and were known for their lavish lifestyles. But dwindling patronage and a changing cultural market have pushed mujra performers to the margins Soni’s curt tone, dark lips, ...

Writer and shutterbug, Priyankee loves nothing more than weekend movie marathons and seeking out new indie artists on 8tracks. Passion and profession fused together for her, when she began managing ...

While Kareena Kapoor is dreaming of performing a mujra on Rekha's 'Saalam-e-Ishq'... Bebo whose favourite mujra is the veteran actress' evergreen track, had to convince beau Saif Ali Khan to include a ...

4. Aishwarya Rai: When Umrao Jaan was remade in 2006, the whole country was comparing Aishwarya to Rekha. While she may have not been as convincing as Rekha, we can't deny she looked absolutely ...

Every weekend, Afreen Khan dances for a crowd of howling men in a theatre in Lahore. She materialises the fantasies of the male audience, and does everything their wives would not: standing on stage ...

To be or not to be. Lucknow Mahotsav and the programmes associated with it continue to amaze and baffle, like the inclusion of a mujra performance in the Mahotsav schedule. To be or not to be. Lucknow ...

After Rekha, if there's an actress who made mujra look stunning, it has to be Madhuri Dixit. Her epic portrayal of Chandramukhi in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas stands out as one of her career-best ...

A car pulls up to a McDonald’s takeaway window. The passenger in the back seat asks for a McCrispy meal, without mayo. She has a pronounced Punjabi twang. Both men at the counter stare at her, one ...

New Delhi: Mujra is a dance form, which originated in the Mugal era and was performed by courtesans.This beautiful dance form has always had a special place in Bollywood films. From Madhubala ...