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...

Goodbye Shashi Kapoor

One of the brightest stars of our industry now resides in heaven, I guess it is God's turn to say "Mere Paas Shashi Kapoor hai".

The Little Gems of Nonpur

Place: Nonpur Begusarai, Bihar, India

The Film: Master ki class

In Begusarai I was in the place called Nonpur. Nonpur is a small village wher...

Stranger Things 2: Stranger-er, Creepier, Darker

When Stranger Things made a silent entry with its first season and first of its kind show; little had anyone anticipated it was here to leave a solid mark or rather so not ...

Teaching my Son to make his Own Bed!

“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”- William Shakespeare

Coming from...

Martin Scorsese teaches filmmaking online

"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out" - Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese drew his first storyboard when he was eight. Today he’s a legenda...

Cowboys, 'Injuns' and Bones

We associate the American Wild West with the hundreds of Westerns about cowboys and Red Indians. But life was tough for early settlers and gold rush prospectors. The native...

No Way Out

Of all the characters in the Mahabharat, it is perhaps Abhimanyu who most strongly personifies the futility of war, and the toll it takes on the young and innocent, who are...

Photo Shows Faces Of India, Rarely Seen

Indians are obsessed with fairness. Our movies, fashion industry, advertisements, the nauseating matrimonial ads looking for "fair" brides, they all, directly or indirectly...