About a political resistance through culture….. By Shivani Nag. For long one has felt uncomfortable about the near-complete absence of crucial questions of our times in mainstream cinema – be it the continued practice of caste-based discrimination, condition of the working
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled…Aankhon Dekhi was one of the rare films to come out of Bollywood last year, which took us straight into the centre of that dilemma, leaving us more
Madhuja Mukherjee relates to us the story of Miss Ruby Myers who was not only the biggest star in 1920s but was the substance of myth and lore … Let us resume our stories of Miss Cinemawali with Miss Ruby
Wilbur Sargunaraj is a YouTube sensation and his new film, Simple Superstar just released in late 2012. Thomas Crowley reviews the film, and also adds to his earlier criticism of the man and his art … Has Wilbur Sargunaraj changed,
Imagine a villain taking all humanity captive, and slowly, in full view of the others, forcing individuals to jump to death, one after another heh-heh-heh, off a steep cliff. How many human beings do you estimate would need to be
In a quintessentially Marquezian way…life obliges people to give birth to themselves over and over again…Here, actor, director, activist and sportsman Rahul Bose talks about his various obligations…both epic and microscopic in scope…In conversation with Pritha Kejriwal. Rahul, you have
#Trigger warning: Not for the faint-hearted, not for the ones who look for beauty in every atom of the planet or who try to make each atom beautiful! You will be better off waiting for the next Sooraj Barjatiya film!
Soumabrata Chatterjee reminisces about Farooq Shiekh, his style of cinema and what made him so unique and special…. Recently, a colleague of mine introduced me to a Japanese anime named Rurouni Kenshin. It is basically about the wandering escapades of
Soumabrata Chatterjee reviews Anurag Kashyap’s new film Ugly … “And universal darkness buries all …” This line from Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad came to my mind once I finished watching Anurag Kashyap’s new film Ugly. Earlier this year, Mardaani dealt
About the column: This series presents short articles and photo-essays on the industrial aspects of cinema produced from Bombay aka Bollywood. Stories of the making of Bollywood, stars, publicity mechanisms, fan cultures, gossips, costumes, music usage, playback systems, singers, composers, as