Retroscope - Jagjit Singh- A Sweet Recollection

I don’t recall when I first met the two, Jagjit and Chitra Singh. It must be sometime in the early 1970s, when Chitra came round to our tiny apartment on 29th Road TP...

LOOK, BHABHO’S IN A GHAGHRA CHOLI

By and large, the ‘powers that be for television’ have created a grid for how women should be portrayed in soaps. Placed in a box with a uniform dress code, it ...

Rush Hour Producer Arthur Sarkissian Is Making A Movie About Elderly Jewel Thieves

One of the hardest things about getting old, other than all of your friends dying and the lack of good Hollywood roles, is the way that people assume you can’t really...

Rewind 2015: Indian Ads That Made News This Year

The year 2015 had its fair share of popular and controversial ad campaigns. From brands like Kalyan Jewellers who were forced to pull down their creatives after facing onli...

Her Name Was Gauhar

There is little documentation about India’s great performing artistes and even less about the women.

The tawaifs, despite their talent and refinement had the ...

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival Announces 2016 Line-Up

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Atlanta’s biggest movie marathon, unveils the lineup for the 2016 edition Thursday night, showing that the biggest has grown ev...

True Review – Television This Week- Yamraj’s Climate Change Mission

The makers of Yam Hai Hum couldn?t have timed their current series of episodes better. The Paris Summit on Global Warming and climate change taking the front seat on the ne...

Film Festival Celebrates Jewish?Culture

When the Calgary Jewish Film Festival began 15 years ago, its opening night attracted 40 people. This Saturday the festival will open with a screening of the documentary Ro...

Israel Hosts Its 1st Ukrainian Film Festival

Cinema events in major cities ‘introduce Israeli audience to Ukrainian filmmakers’ as cultural influence increased from former Soviet satellite. With the increa...