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A Requiem For Mayfair Cinema

English movies which essentially meant Hollywood films (Hollywood being the benchmark for “good cinema” catering to the English-spe...

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Festivals

Songs of Durga puja

Ashish Ghatak writes on the songs of R.D. Burman and Asha Bhosle which continue to resonate during the puja week, which ends t...

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Powerful People

A Dream Run for Kalyani

Janaky Sreedharan writes about J.Geetha’s debut venture Run Kalyani, which is set to be the opening film at the New York...

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Alternative Entertainment

Hollywood icon: The Rock

Khalid Mohamed reviews the Netflix mini-series, Hollywood, which in part attempts to depict the story of the iconic Rock Hudson’s struggl...

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Thought Factory

Spare a thought for Lakhs of Unemployed Single-screen Cinema Workers of Bollywood City

As many as two lakh cinema workers - ushers, projectionists, ticket counter clerks, especially – have been rendered unemployed in the las...

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TV

Genius: Picasso – Stroke on the Surface, Fails to Strike Deep

Rarely could we ever surmise the depths or the true backstory that breathes within a masterpiece or a mastermin...

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TV

Dirty Money: Bamboozled Beyond Belief?

‘Do you think it’s dirty money? All money is dirty; if it were clean nobody would want it.&rsq...

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Powerful People

Sulabha Arya - She does not stoop to Conquer!!!

One summer noon we were heading in a Bus towards London’s Buckingham Palace with my UK based daughter, son in law and his mother Sulabha. The latter happens...

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Retroscope

Udayer Pathe - A Star Is Born

With Udayer Pathe, a new star was born – the name was BIMAL ROY.
As cinematographer, that star quality was evident after he shot P.C .Barua’s MUKTI. Deser...

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Health

Why India Needs Its Quack Doctors.

Toward the end of last year, reports emerged that the Liver Foundation, a health NGO in India’s West Bengal state, had started working with local quack doctors. The t...

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