Archana (Suchitra Sen) falls in love with Sukhendu (Soumitra Chatterjee), a serious University Lecturer, much to the chargin her snobbish …
Some star vehicles simply cannot be reviewed keeping conventional cinema aesthetics in mind. It is the star who drives the film with the …
Bhuvan Shome (Utpal Dutt), is a middle-aged widower and a dedicated civil servant working with the Indian Railways. He is …
Vasantha Talkies was the cultural hub of that little town of Dharapuram in Tamil Nadu, where I grew up. This …
Newspaper managing editor, Amita (Mala Sinha), and her younger sister, Sunita (Tanuja), both find themselves falling for the paper’s idealistic …
Anarkali looks at the mythical and legendary love of Prince Salim (Pradeep Kumar), the son of Akbar with the court …
Today, Milap is remembered mainly as Raj Khosla’s directorial debut and nothing more. But to be fair to Khosla, a most underrated director, …
Bholaa, directed by and starring Ajay Devgn, boasts of impressively staged action sequences that consume the majority of its screen …
All That Breathes
Shaunak Sen’s remarkable documentary, All That Breathes, that was nominated for an Academy Award, is set in India’s capital city, …
When Hitchcock Tried To Go Surreal
While Spellbound (1945) was one of Alfred Hitchcock’s successful films, it hasn’t held up too well with time even if …
Gun Crazy: The Unshown Heist
Loosely based on the Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrows legend, Gun Crazy (1950), directed by Joseph H Lewis , is one …
The Urgent Cinema Of Santiago Alvarez
“Give me two photographs, a music and a moviola. And I’ll give you a movie.” is a quote that is …
Cinema Memories: The Collage On The Wall
Vasantha Talkies was the cultural hub of that little town of Dharapuram in Tamil Nadu, where I grew up. This …
Revisiting Shankarabharanam…
It is often said that the first shot or the first sequence of a film normally betrays its intent. The …
Two To Tango: Noor Jehan & Shamim Ara
Noor Jehan officially turned ‘playback singer’ in Pakistan beginning with the song Zindagi Hai Ya Kisika Intezar filmed on actress …
