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Retroscope
Retroscope: The Amazing Choir From Shillong
I schooled in the St. Joseph’s Convent on Bandra’s Hill Road. Opposite our school was the grand St.Peter’s School. Ours was strictly a girls&rsqu...
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Retroscope - The Healing Touch
The following is no filmy story. But it has the possibility of inspiring a Raju Hirani or a Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a central character who is as delightful as Munnabhai and a...
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Retroscope - Unsung Talents
It was the day they got married, remembers Mrs Salil Chowdhury, chuckling to herself, when the letter arrived inviting Chowdhury to Bombay. The particular letter that was to c...
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Retroscope - A Veritable Carnival
The 19th edition of CFSI’s festival turned out to be a veritable carnival, a feast of colourful sights and sounds.Had I not gone, I would have missed the robust experien...
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Curtain Raiser
“Everything is a celebration in the garden of childhood” - Pablo Neruda A question which frequently haunted me raises its head as I write the curtain raiser on th...
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Meena Kumari - A Legend
Meena Kumari’s rags to riches saga has a poignant edge to it. Dubbedthe greatest tragedienne of the Indian screen, her doomed personal life flashing with deep tragedy ma...
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Durga Puja Special
For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew everyone. It...
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The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema
It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at othe...
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A Personal Tribute To Smita
That was sometime way back in the seventies. I still remember the two young women in our Tashkent film delegation who were fashionably late for meals, meetings; who giggled a ...
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