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Yasser Usman | Hindustan Times
The young Rekha was body and slut-shamed and sexually harassed. She rose above it all to become the ultimate Hindi film leading lady. Yasser Usman, author of a new ...
New Book On Rekha Looks At The Bollywood Diva’s Life With Sympathy And Awe
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By Anamika Chatterjee
It is anything but easy to tell the ‘untold story’ of a Bollywood star. Yasser Usman should know. A senior film journalist, he has recently penned an unauthorised ...
HOW TO WRITE AN UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF A FILM STAR
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21 Mar, 2018, Yasser Usman | Open Magazine
Sanjay Dutt’s biographer Yasser Usman on the ennui of hagiographies and the challenge of writing unauthorised biographies
IN THE SMALL town in ...
The Lives of Others
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Gulzar is as fine a dialogue writer as he is a lyricist
Being an alchemist of verse, his introduction is always as a poet-lyricist. But what about the poetry in his dialogues? Gulzar ...
Gulzar as the dialogue writer: HT Brunch
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Brunch Bollywood Special: Dialoguebaazi
Compiled by Asad Ali and Yasser Usman, Hindustan Times
You wanted to do a crash course in Urdu after listening to Kabhi Kabhie, ...