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Lunch with BS: Sanjna Kapoor

After injecting life into Mumbai's Prithvi Theatre and running it for years, Kapoor tells Anjuli Bhargava that she is consumed by a new passion - Junoon

Rahul Ram

Indian Ocean's lead singer and bass guitarist tells Geetanjali Krishna ahead of the release of the band's latest album

Lunch with BS: Rahul Ram, Lead Vocalist, Indian Ocean

Lior Suchard

For a mind-reader and "supernatural entertainer", thinking out of the box isn't enough since he had to throw out the box long ago, Lior Suchard tells Shyamal Majumdar & Dev ChatterjeeA pair of spectacles is rolling on the dining table of its own accord; the spoon has just been bent with a soft touch; the stewards at Palladium's Mekong restaurant are having a whale of a time at our expense; and our guest for the lunch is flashing a winning smile.This is not exactly the usual setting for a Lunch with BS but "usual" is a word that doesn't seem to exist in Lior Suchard's dictionary. Known all over the world as a mentalist, Suchard, who prefers to call himself a supernatural entertainer, says even out-of-the-box thinking is passe for him since he threw the box right at the beginning of his rather unusual career. We notice the huge ring on his forefinger with "S" inscribed on it, and Suchard says the "S" stands for Superman - his all-time favourite hero. It's easy to take many of his cla

Lunch with BS: Lior Suchard

P>Pakistan's most popular drag act  and actor  is coming to India to look for a larger audience, on a TV screen near you.

LUNCH WITH BS: 'Begum Nawazish Ali'

P>After three decades of being different things to different people, the actor reincarnates as  what else?  a producer and also reinvents his career.

COFFEE WITH BS: Anil Kapoor

P>Incredibly, Bollywood's hottest scriptwriter is not a film buff and thinks his training as a computer engineer has helped him break the vital code.

DINNER WITH BS: Jaideep Sahni

P>The maverick director talks about his decision to remake one of India&#39;s timeless classics and why logic should not get in the way of cinema.

LUNCH WITH BS: Ram Gopal Varma

P>The actor-turned-producer-turned-director feels he could have been a good teacher and then explains what will make corporatisation of films fail or succeed.

TEA WITH BS: Aamir Khan

The Don 2 director talks about work-life balance, marketing innovations and Bollywood&rsquo;s obsession with opening weekend collections.

Tea with BS: Farhan Akhtar

The actor insists he does &lsquo;commercial&rsquo; cinema but not formula films - Hollywood movies his uncle Dharmendra and cousin Sunny Deol brought home inspired him to think differently.

Coffee with BS: Abhay Deol

He set up India&rsquo;s first multiplex, most major production and distribution firms listed after he did - yet, the man who saw tomorrow is hardly elated at how things have turned out.

Tea with BS: Manmohan Shetty

One was a journalist, the other was trying to make a career out of theatre and quizzing. They ended up as entrepreneurs who redefined television viewing in India.

DINNER WITH BS: Siddharth Basu and Anita Kaul Basu

It is 3:00 p m on a Sunday afternoon when I walk into The Westin, a hideous grey-and-glass monstrosity in Gurgaon. This meeting has been delayed by four hours and my Sunday is ruined. So, I am really not looking forward to interviewing Anurag Kashyap. My wait in the lobby ends when Kashyap, who&rsquo;s just turned 40, walks in.

Lunch with BS: Anurag Kashyap

The youthful inventor of the &ldquo;Sixth Sense&rdquo; device has foreign governments and film-makers interested in his technology that binds the digital and the physical worlds.

Tea with BS: Pranav Mistry

At 5&rsquo;8&rdquo; and 90 kg-plus, Sandeep Goyal walks at a measured pace to Gallups at Mumbai&rsquo;s Mahalaxmi Race Course. But the pace seems to be reserved only for a lazy Saturday afternoon.

Lunch with BS: Sandeep Goyal

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