True Review Television - Finally, A Robot Bahu

Is it a coincidence or are channels and content providers really taking a hard look at stories about women and their emancipation. Star Plus’ Tamanna deals with a wom...

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...

Rediscovering Hidden Treasures : Hirak Rajar Deshe

The most renowned Indian film maker internationally, doubtless, is Satyajit Ray. His advent with the iconic debut, PatherPanchali (The Song of the Road) heralded an outstan...

True Review - Hindi : Bollywood - '15 Going on '16

2015 was a good year for Hindi movies. Tevar may not have launched it in that direction but it was not an entirely dull outing. Shankar's I, dubbed in Hind...

15th River To River - Press Release And Invite For The Pre-Opening Exhibition.

Meena Kumari - A Legend

Meena Kumari’s rags to riches saga has a poignant edge to it. Dubbedthe greatest tragedienne of the Indian screen, her doomed personal life flashing with deep tragedy...

Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

I Love Making Women-Centric Films: Shoojit Sircar.

In Kolkata for the DVD release of debutant director Anindya Chatterjee’s Open Tee Bioscope, a Bengali movie he produced, Shoojit Sircar opens up about his love for wo...