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 ...

Soni’s curt tone, dark lips, stained teeth and pudgy build make her appear older than her 36 years. The tinkling sound created by the ghungroos is distinctive to the mujra style of dancing. (The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HYDERABAD: Following a raid on a dance bar in Ranigunj on Saturday night, Deccan Chronicle found that there is a high demand for mujra dances in the city, with around 70 per cent of the parties in the ...

Priety Zinta: Well, technically Priety Zinta’s Happening is not mujra. The music is too peppy for mujra and the dance is too fast as well. But, the song starts off as mujra and later gets all perky.