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Lobo Lobo goes cylindrical

Lobo Lobo goes cylindrical

“Slow down Lobo Lobo, what’s happened and who are we talking about?”

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The irresistible rise of Vijay Crishna

The irresistible rise of Vijay Crishna

This was to be the first of three plays, Vijay and I did together.

09.03.2026 10

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Rahul Da Cunha

Lobo Lobo and Jai Ho Ho Ho Ho

Ujally wen I come to see you, in SoBo, I have to take one rickshaw, change tree trains, and take one bus — Today morrning, I tought, why not avail...

01.03.2026 10

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All about Duvall

Whether he played soldiers, cowboys, lawyers or men coming apart at the seams, Duvall brought empathy to the roles not sentimentality

23.02.2026 10

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Lobo Lobo and the Epstein Files

“Dikuna men, I’m ‘thoda’ shocked — how to tell you, my name has appearded in de Episteen Files!”

15.02.2026 10

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When Sunny met Immy

Imran was an early hero of mine. The swagger, with the shirt open, shining the red ball on his flannels, he was up on my bedroom wall, a priceless...

09.02.2026 6

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Smokin’ Lobo live

“Uhm, Lobo Lobo, any reason why you’re dressed with this coloured headgear?”

01.02.2026 8

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Arre re Rahman

You scored masterpieces from Mani Ratnam’s trilogy to Taal, to Maa Tujhe Salaam to Rockstar to Chaiya Chaiya and Vande Matraram, and Sir Andrew...

26.01.2026 10

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Lobo Lobo votes

Wot is his plan to come every morning and play de blessed musical instruments to calm me down?

19.01.2026 20

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ICE ICE baby

“Some people think I did it for the approval ratings, others feel I did it for the oil, sure — but that’s only half of it.” 

12.01.2026 20

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2025 — A to Z

Coldplay kiss cam couple. ChatGPT. Chhava. Cruise gets an Oscar

04.01.2026 10

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Nats and the age of hate

Rahul unc, you wanna know what ails me, what angers me, what makes me go crazy with helplessness?

29.12.2025 10

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Lobo Lobo is Messi-ed up

“You were there in person, Lobo Lobo? Kolkata or Mumbai?”

21.12.2025 10

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Lobo Lobo FA9LA

“Dikuna men, I’m not Rehman Dakait, as you may have thought, I am Raymond Dacosta… my screen name, my alter ego… hello.”

15.12.2025 10

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Boeing, Boeing, Gone

But no one returned, to clean up, fuel up or anything — not that day, or the next day, not for a week or a month or a year.

07.12.2025 10

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The binge watch

The son, with an irritated eye roll explains, “See Pa, Dhriti equals ‘they’ — Dhriti likes to be called ‘they, them’ not ‘she, her’.”

30.11.2025 10

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Who MI?

I decided to interview Innaritu and Cruise myself. Finally they relented

23.11.2025 10

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They ‘killed’ the He-man

But there was a “kahaani mein twist”. The family announced that Dharamji was alive. “The media has killed our ‘Garam Dharam’ prematurely,”...

16.11.2025 10

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Lobo Lobo for Mayor

“See men, Dikuna, dere are tree-foe major communities dat make up our Virar.

09.11.2025 10

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He was funny

Satish Shah had a similar problem to Asrani, who passed two weeks before Shah, as they weren’t conventionally good looking, in fact they were odd...

03.11.2025 5

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Kuch khaas thhe

Creative people tend to be wary of clients, but not Piyush, he won them over

26.10.2025 3

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Nobel in pieces

In fact, sire, let’s write the first of your biographies – Donald Trump – Bullets and Bombs- My Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize

19.10.2025 10

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Yash Minister

“Yes it is a very important mission. But it’s not political, it’s cinematic,” Sir Starmer said.

12.10.2025 10

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Lobo Lobo and the stolen cup

“Now tell me why you’re running like a mad person, dressed in a football jersey, holding a large silver cup in the middle of the night?” I enquired

05.10.2025 10

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Is it a bird? No, it’s Dickie Bird

It’s funny you were most famous for diffusing tense situations, with self-deprecating humour and jest

28.09.2025 10

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The way you were

To Robert Redford the story was everything. There were many aspects of his charisma that stayed with one, over the years

21.09.2025 5

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Lobo Lobo and Nano Banana

“No men, it’s not about de small flat, it’s… see bossie, Dikuna men, I’m fully fed up men, fully fed up!”

14.09.2025 4

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Dr Hathi mere saathi

I’ve found doctors divide themselves into two kinds, in Bombay city certainly. On the one hand, the curt and on the other, the kind….the impatient...

31.08.2025 10

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Lobo Lobo, monorail and Mogambo

So, my family are deciding dat we have to be prepared wid water transportation, all dese four wheelers and two wheeler dey end up floating in de water

24.08.2025 10

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Arrey o Sholay

Five years later, the trolls and the trade critics had been silenced, the word of mouth was overwhelming

17.08.2025 10

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Dear Test cricket

Test cricket, you’re hanging in there, for the purist, not the lover of IPL, the Instant Pyjama League, Big Bash etc

10.08.2025 6

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Lobo Lobo, the coach

“See men, Dikuna, as you know I’m a natural athlete… (he stopped meaningfully for me to nod vociferously).”

03.08.2025 10

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Mama, I’m coming home

Growing up, I had a complicated relationship with you. In fact, a complicated one with Black Sabbath

28.07.2025 10

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Campion goes co-ed

It’s a fact, that those of us, Baby Boomers who were schooled in Bombay, you sized up, judged, a guy or girl, based on the school they went to

20.07.2025 10

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Jhoota kahin ka

“And anyway, why has our esteemed chosen to be absent from this all important gathering,” Kannadiga Chappal asked

14.07.2025 20

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Lobo Lobo in space

“Yeah dat only, him only, if he can achieve dis, den why not me, I want to go wid him on his next space mission, represent de nation”

29.06.2025 10

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Dreamliner nightmare

The stories came filtering through, of the faults with the aircraft, the fissures that had developed, the flaps that wouldn’t open — and then to...

15.06.2025 8

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Taking the Rafa with the smooth

I’d say, Nadal is the greatest ever rival there was — rivalries there were many, but Nadal was a gladiator, playing every match like it was his...

01.06.2025 8

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Lobo Lobo and the impossible mission

“But you, Lobo Lobo, you, how can you possibly scale up mountains and hang from helicopters?”

18.05.2025 10

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Nats and my first movie

“Dude, did you write it also? Your Hindi is atrocious (eye roll and twinkle).”

04.05.2025 10

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I, Terrorist

Somehow along the way our megaphone, our microphone became a machine gun. Mercenaries with no mercy

27.04.2025 9

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Lobo Lobo and Indian ‘Put tru’ League

“See men, Boss, let me be total clear and simple, as long as anyone is fit and fine, wotever be de age, he can play to whenever he feels—as long...

20.04.2025 10

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Roads, ransacking and rate cards

Where we once walked, we now navigate, with extreme caution

13.04.2025 10

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Iceman goeth

“I believe I’m challenging, not demanding, and I make no apologies for that,” Kilmer said.

06.04.2025 10

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Astronauts of Mehsana

“Dude she was in space for 9 months not 19 years,” someone pointed out.

30.03.2025 10

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How fragile we are

The exposure of the sun on skin, better and more nourishing than the exposure to the evils of social media. 

23.03.2025 10

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My Guns N’ Roses t-shirt

At a Maroon 5 show, a tattooed teenager looked at me “….Hmmm, cool t-shirt, but wrong band, dude”.

16.03.2025 20

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Lobo Lobo enters the Oval Office

“Yeah l know men, he’s dat fallow from Krain, his name is like Zelin Misqiutta, my turd cuzzin from Dadar  near de TT only.”

09.03.2025 10

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The Everyman. Gene Hackman.

The grit in his gritty performances came from an instructor telling a young Hackman that he “wouldn’t amount to anything”

02.03.2025 20

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Selfless strangers

Dressed in maroon, half masks on so you can’t see full faces, just eyes, kind tired eyes—concern writ large on their foreheads

23.02.2025 10

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