There are two sets of people in Calcutta – those who have watched Gandu and those who haven’t. For those who have, its director Q is the mascot of evolving Bengali Cinema who took Gandu to film festivals pan continents. And for those who
Spaces The elegantly dressed lady asked, “What else do you need to know of an old woman?” and with that one question, the video ended. But did it end? The lines that time had delicately, trenchantly wrought on the once
Another Independence Day went by… the usual flag hoisting ceremony at every school, club, housing complex, locality; the picnics; the serpentine queue at the butchers’, at the movies; the speeches; flowers and Lata Mangeshkar’s time tested Aye Mere Watan Ke Logon on
“zabaan-e-hind hai urdu to maathe pe shikan kyun hai vatan mein be-vatan kyun hai” The tragedy is evident right from when the opening credits roll. If you cast your memory back to any Hindi film released upto the late 90s
The best way to watch the 1939 gem The Wizard Of Oz, as many of you are doubtless aware, has nothing whatsoever to do with the film’s director, Victor Fleming. The original is a perfectly great film, a superlative piece