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Your OTT Menu: Dinosaurs Or Monsters? Cops Or Crooks?

Your OTT Menu: Dinosaurs Or Monsters? Cops Or Crooks?

Rediff.com15 Oct 2022

Time travel, monsters, dinosaurs, Korean cops, what will you watch on OTT this week? Sukanya Verma offers her picks.

10 OTT Shows That Make Us Nostalgic

10 OTT Shows That Make Us Nostalgic

Rediff.com22 Aug 2023

Many films and shows go back in time to bring alive so many fading and forgotten memories.

Shantaram Review: Too Verbose

Shantaram Review: Too Verbose

Rediff.com14 Oct 2022

If future episodes are as verbose and unwieldy, it might be difficult to keep from switching channels, points out Deepa Ghalot.

First Covid case may have emerged in China in Oct 2019: Study

First Covid case may have emerged in China in Oct 2019: Study

Rediff.com25 Jun 2021

The research, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens on Thursday, suggests that the first case of COVID-19 arose between early October and mid-November, 2019 in China, with the most likely date of origin being November 17.

Madge in Mumbai

Madge in Mumbai

Rediff.com8 Jan 2008

The singer arrived in Mumbai with hubby and kids in tow.

Gregory Roberts: 'I'd write with an ashtray by the side'

Gregory Roberts: 'I'd write with an ashtray by the side'

Rediff.com24 Jun 2013

Shantaram author takes India non-fiction festival by storm and charms audiences.

Legendary singer David Bowie dies at 69

Legendary singer David Bowie dies at 69

Rediff.com11 Jan 2016

The singer battled cancer for 18 months.

'Keep the faith with India and Bombay'

'Keep the faith with India and Bombay'

Rediff.com2 Dec 2008

The Melbourne, Australia-born Roberts who, since escaping from Pentridge Prison has made a new life in India and who, famously, wrote his best-selling novel Shantaram seated in a corner table of Leopold's Cafe in South Mumbai, makes an eloquent plea on behalf of the country that changed him from convicted bank robber to much lionized author

'Shantaram' returns to Leopold

'Shantaram' returns to Leopold

Rediff.com10 Dec 2008

Had the terrorists come five hours earlier, I wouldn't be here talking to you," says Gregory David Roberts, the Australian author of the novel Shantaram, oft-considered a foreigner's Ode to Mumbai. "We were here in the evening, then left for the airport, as we had to fly to Australia that night for business."

Shantaram runs into roadblock

Shantaram runs into roadblock

Rediff.com20 Nov 2007

The Johnny Depp starrer has become the third big movie to be halted due to the writer's strike that has already grounded Ron Howard-directed Angels & Demons and the Oliver Stone-directed Pinkville.

Directing Amitabh, Johnny Depp

Directing Amitabh, Johnny Depp

Rediff.com27 Mar 2007

Mira Nair talks about her new film, Shantaram.

Who should Depp's heroine be?

Who should Depp's heroine be?

Rediff.com29 Mar 2006

The star might be paired opposite a Bollywood actress for Shantaram.

Johnny Depp, Shantaram, and me!

Johnny Depp, Shantaram, and me!

Rediff.com8 Mar 2006

'I found a lot of love in India'

'I found a lot of love in India'

Rediff.com30 Nov 2004

'There are thousands of ways to enter India but only one way to come out: to have been transformed,' says Gregory David Roberts.

Johnny Depp's Mumbai connection

Johnny Depp's Mumbai connection

Rediff.com7 Oct 2004