Writer-director Rahul Dahiya’s gut-wrenching indie film, G Kutta Se, is a film on the abhorring...
Author - Sharad Raj
First Person: Ek Betuke Aadmi Ki Afrah Raatein
It was sometime in 2015. I was terribly disappointed with India having lost to Australia in the...
Hindi Medium
Hindi Medium is as topical a film can get about our education system. It exposes many fault lines...
Meri Pyaari Bindu
The title itself of this rom-com suggests a film made by a team of diehard fans of retro...
Poorna
It is true beyond doubt that a film has to work as cinema within which ever paradigm it’s maker...
Baaghi: A Rebel For Love
The premise of Sabbir Khan’s Baaghi: A Rebel For Love had promise for an interesting commercial...
Based On A True Story But…
Let me begin with an anecdote. I was reading my script pages. In a scene, the husband gets a call...
Dada, Ami Bachte Chai
In 2008 when my sister was touring Japan, I asked her to carry DVDs of Yasujiro Ozu’s films. On...
No Mise-en-Scene, No Cinema
“Wim Wenders places a camera anywhere and creates cinema!”, I exclaimed after a retrospective...
A Tryst With Woody!
Ever since I consigned myself to Mumbai life after graduating from the FTII in 1992, the city has...