A Conversation With Vickey Lalwani

In this episode Pooja Bhatt and seasoned journalist Vickey Lalwani deconstruct the glamour to expose the friction between Bollywood, the nature of fame and tough reporting. A warhorse of the industry, Lalwani operates on a singular, blunt principle: real news is exactly what the industry wants to hide. Together, they critique how modern celebrity culture has traded grit for sanitized, PR-controlled narratives, contrasting today’s scripted image-making with an era that treated entertainment coverage as a fight for the truth. The episode offers a fascinating insight into what truly makes news and the high-stakes game of how it is broken. Beyond the headlines, Lalwani reflects on his lifelong passion for his first love - cricket and how those early memories still anchor him today. From a career forged in the wake of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination to a debut interview with Dev Anand, Lalwani details the persistence required to interrogate an industry built on secrets. The conversation cuts through the shifting power dynamics with icons like Shah Rukh Khan and the stubborn refusal to stop asking the questions everyone else is paid to ignore. It is a look at a man who remains guided by the conviction that journalism only matters when it makes people uncomfortable. His mantra is simple: love him or hate him, you simply cannot ignore him.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.