Amol Palekar reacted vehemently to several states' tax exemptions for films such as The Kashmir Files (2022) and The Kerala Story (2023)

It was Shashi Kapoor and a host of other big stars, who Basu Chatterji first had in mind for the lead pair of his 1974 film Rajnigandha. A new biography of the late filmmaker discusses how the ‘simple-looking’ Amol Palekar made the cut