Meher Marfatia

With Jamshedi Navroze round the corner, we trace four generations of Parsi theatre actors playing a ragingly popular Irani character  

Bombay film, theatre and legal luminaries share fascinating stories behind bequeathed treasures they hold dear

It’s worth being stuck in traffic to savour historic Kemp’s Corner’s striking architecture and streetscape “What did one banana say to another? Marry me, I’m akela.” To think a joke as bad as this got Amitabh Bachchan guffawing. He and Anwar Ali, comedian Mehmood’s brother, cracked such nonstop corn in Allah Beli, the Kemp’s Corner cafe that is now the Gangar Opticians showroom. Struggler buddies paid a few hundred bucks for eyeblink roles as boys singing and drinking in Merchant-Ivory’s 1970...