Casablanca: The Most Quoted Movie of all Times

It’s still the same old story. Seventy-five years after it was released, Casablanca (1942) remains one of the world’s best-loved films and one of my favourite f...

The Other Dilip Kumar

As the car heaves uphill from the Khar end, I notice a high blue scaffolding covering that familiar old place.  A sign board is clearly visible outside. Despite the sm...

Shashi Kapoor - The Actor Without Airs Is No More

Shashi Kapoor, born as Balbir Prithviraj Kapoor, who was adored as the Adonis of Hindi Cinema and hailed as an actor with a global appeal of his own is no more. The embodim...

Firangi - Deliberately Plodding

Cast: Kapil Sharma, Ishita Dutta, Monica Gill, Inaamulhaq

Direction: Rajiev Dhingra

Producer: Kapil Sharma

Writer: Rajiev Dhingra

Genre: Com...

Canada’s Bloody Mary Film Festival 2017’s spotlight on Female-Identifying Canadian Filmmakers

The Bloody Mary Film Festival is a screening series that was first held in Toronto, Ontario on November 3-4, 2016. Named after the legendary mirror ghost from slumber parti...

Irfan and Parvathy strike the right chord with QQS

Cast: Irrfan Khan, Parvathy, Neha Dhupia, Luke Kenny, Isha Sherwani, Pushtiie Shakti Siddharth Menon

Direction: Tanuja Chandra

Producer: Zee Studios, Jar Pi...

Is Love Enough?

The synopsis of the play Bas… Tum Aur Hum, asks a very important question: If marriages are made in heaven what is it that keeps them going on Earth?<...

THE JITENDRA ARYA RETROSPECTIVE

“Photography begins with the marriage of two minds – the dreamers and the technicians.” Arya on photographing Nehru.

 I have not the...

The Queer on the Silver Screen

Over the last few decades, the world has seen a change in the perception of queer people among the masses.  More and more LGBTQ persons began to express their identiti...