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Author of 'Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna', ‘Rajneeti - A Biography of Rajnath Singh’ and ‘The Midway Battle’

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Gautam Chintamani’s Biography

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Gautam Chintamani

Gautam Chintamani is a film historian and the author of the bestselling Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna (HarperCollins, 2014), Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak: The Film That Revived Hindi Cinema (HarperCollins, 2016) and Pink The Inside Story (HarperCollins, 2017).

Hailing from a literary tradition that runs deep on both sides of his family, late Telugu poet Arudra is his maternal grandfather and the liberal thinker [Sir C.Y. Chintamani] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

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Gautam Chintmani in The Dawn

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When Bhagyaraj's India changed: How his Hindi films reflected a new era

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By Gautam Chintamani
| MSN India Verified
Gautam Chintamani June 2026 quietly brought down two of the men who had shaped an important chapter in Tamil cinema. Bharathiraja departed on 11 June. Seventeen days later came the news of K. Bhagyaraj. Mentor and protégé departed within weeks of each other, closing a creative relationship that had influenced an entire generation of popular filmmaking. For many outside Tamil cinema, Bhagyaraj remains a familiar yet oddly underappreciated figure.
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The civilised cannibal: Why Hannibal Lector feels more real than ever today

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By Gautam Chintamani
| Firstpost Verified
In 2018, Sandra Bullock casually told daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres that her luxury facial treatment used cells derived from Korean baby foreskin. In 2020, reports of Hollywood celebrities experimenting with blood-harvesting youth-restoration procedures appeared in tech and lifestyle magazines. These seemed more procedural than scenes from dystopian science fiction or vampire fables. In 2021, talk about actor Armie Hammer being into cannibalism began to surface.
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Opinion | Missiles Make Noise, Dhurandhars Win Wars: Why Human Intelligence Still Rules

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By Gautam Chintamani
| CNN-News18 Verified
Last Updated:April 09, 2026, 13:24 IST A responsible state responds not with rhetoric but with penetration — into networks, funding streams, & into the psychology of planners. The work is thankless and often invisible. The classic lexicon of HUMINT speaks of sources, assets, and intermediaries — individuals who carry information across boundaries, sometimes knowingly, often not.
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