Retroscope - Meena Kumari

I walked carefully through the film set, encountering black coils of electrical wires, plug points, tripods, pedestal lights, noisy fans at every step of the way that made ...

Retroscope - A legacy of taste

Young couples who elope to marry, remember Romeo Juliet (the poor kids died)​ Raj Kapoor’s Bobby or the young lovers from a recent Marathi blockbuster Sairat that h...

Artificial Intelligence Creativity Machine Learns To Play Beethoven In The Style Of The Beatles’ “Penny Lane”

It is the end of term this week and my film production students asked me to name my favorite part of filmmaking. I told them it’s directing, as it’s something I...

Retroscope - In admiration

“ You must be the writer?!” The tall man greeted me sitting in the large drawing room .

His unexpected, if direct greeting, knocked me down that night w...

True Review Movie - Laal Rang

Cast: Randeep Hooda, Piaa Bajpai, Akshay Oberoi, Rajniesh Duggall, Ashutosh Kaushik, Meenakshi Dixit, Shreya Narayan, Rajendra Sethi, Pushkar Anand, Kumar Saurabh, Atul Cho...

Celebrating Art - Kokuyo Camlin celebrates ‘World Art Day’

Mumbai, 18^th April 2016 – Celebrating and reveling in the arts, well-known stationery and art brand, Kokuyo Camlin has ce...

For Google's Cloud, 18 Minutes Of Downtime Is An Eternity

On Monday night, Google's Compute Engine went dark for 18 minutes. The Engine itself was whirring away just fine, but incoming internet traffic to its servers was misrouted...

Poems That Make Grown Women Cry

Following the success of their anthology Poems That Make Grown Men Cry, father-and-son team Anthony and Ben Holden, working with Amnesty International, have asked the same ...

True Review Television - Comedy Is No Laughing Matter

Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma has now crossed 1900 episodes. This makes it the longest running daily sitcom on Indian television. It’s a tough act to follow, let alo...