Cannes in Support of Films made by Dissident Directors

The 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 8 to 19 May 2018. Asghar Farhadi's psych...

Celebrating the Women behind the Camera

In this age of Netflix, Hotstar and Amazon Prime, there's a unique streaming service called MUBI which I am sur...

Spielberg Knows How to Hit the Nostalgia Bone Just Right

Steven Spielberg is an extraordinary director. For anyone whose actual childhood has been marked by Steven Spie...

The Test of Love: Director Sudhir Mishra to make a film on Renu Saluja

Over the years Bollywood has seen directors not only talking openly about their personal lives but also sharing...

The Best of an Entertainment-Packed SXSW 2018

South by Southwest is one hell of a week you wouldn't want to miss. Think of the annual music conference and fe...

Celebrity Circus and Media

Andy Warhol famously said that everyone in the world would be famous for fifteen minutes.

Hyperbole per...

Films that Celebrated Journalism and Free Press

This year's highly anticipated film was Steven Speilberg's The Post. Starring the top class actors Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, this film got a limited r...

The Stage and the Stree

Theatre has been one of the longest-practiced forms of art in India- from age-old bards, to soliloquizing protagonists, to dance-dramas, it has always been a crucial part o...

Sulabha Arya - She does not stoop to Conquer!!!

One summer noon we were heading in a Bus towards London’s Buckingham Palace with my UK based daughter, son in law and his mother Sulabha. The latter happens...