A BEFITTING SWANSONG

This is a very personal response to a unique film experience gifted by The Song of Scorpions, writes Janaky Sreedharan

BOLLYWOOD TIK-TALK: AMID MANY THINGS, IT WAS ALSO TEACHER’S DAY!

From Shilpa Shetty Kundra to Rajkummar Rao, Nikhil Bhambri, Pulkit Samrat and Nargis Fakhri, they’re setting standards of all kinds, repo...

BOLLYWOOD TIK-TALK: THE NEWS IS BIG ABOUT ‘BigB’ AND ‘SRK’!

Bollywood rocks! Always. And this week the news is bigger than ever before, reports The Daily Eye #Newsdesk

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STRAW DOGS: POETICS OF VIOLENCE OR MISOGYNY?

Based on a novel by Gordon Williams – ‘The Siege of Trencher’s Farm’, it was also my first exposure and my starting poi...

MANI KAUL’S ICONOCLASTIC USKI ROTI

This film is a juxtaposition of slow-moving close-ups and wide shots layered with lots of silence and interspersed with a few monotonous dialog...

BOLLYWOOD TIK-TALK: RAJKUMAR RAO PAYS HOMAGE TO 90s ERA

Look at the headlines at the start of this week, from Rajkumar Rao’s unstoppable Bollywood dominance, to Nargis Fakhri’s grace and ...

TAMAS: THE LIGHT OF TAMAS

Aparajita Krishna writes, “35 years after it lit India’s television screen and cinema, I am herei...

PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION, HATE, ELECTIONS, VOTES…

I cannot dare describe the poisonous propaganda unleashed by the Hindutva lobbies, the myths, misconceptions and twisted lies that are in circu...

THE MAGIC OF CHALTI KA NAAM HAI GAADI

Diamonds are forever. So are good movies. Comedy is a tough genre to handle, it requires extreme sensitivity, sense of timing and comprehensive...