HOLLYWOOD: BLOCKS, BATTLES, AND BIG ADVENTURES

A bold attempt to translate Minecraft’s creative chaos into cinema, this colourful adventure blends familiar game elements, stunning visu...

POWERFUL PEOPLE: INFINITE GENIUS, BOUNDLESS THEATRE

Nadira Zaheer Babbar inhabits the same universe where I met her in 1984. Today, she is as intense and powerful as a thousand times more, and it...

BUSINESS: SPEAK MEMORY!

Monojit Lahiri dumps Bollywood and flashbacks into his life and times in the world of advertising.

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SEEN ROMANTIC LOVE IN B-TOWN, ANY ONE?

It has been said that the history of cinema is also a history of exciting, adventurous and celebrated love affairs. Dead right. And for excelle...

A CHAPTER ON KUMAR SHAHANI’S KASBA

Kumar Shahani’s aesthetic sensibilities were shaped while assisting Robert Bresson on Une Femme Douce (A Gentle Woman, 1969). Additionall...

AMIT KHANNA’S JOURNEY AS A LYRICIST

Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri goes past many of Amit Khanna’s talents and brings fo...

A BEFITTING SWANSONG

This is a very personal response to a unique film experience gifted by The Song of Scorpions, writes Janaky Sreedharan

MANI KAUL’S ICONOCLASTIC USKI ROTI

This film is a juxtaposition of slow-moving close-ups and wide shots layered with lots of silence and interspersed with a few monotonous dialog...

TOPS GLOBALLY. FLOPS LOCALLY.

Monojit Lahiri explores why films, which receive acclaim at International film festivals are unable to convert their critical ...