Saat Pake Bandha

Archana (Suchitra Sen) falls in love with Sukhendu (Soumitra Chatterjee), a serious University Lecturer, much to the chargin her snobbish …

Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan

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

Bhuvan Shome (Utpal Dutt), is a middle-aged widower and a dedicated civil servant working with the Indian Railways. He 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 …

Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi

Newspaper managing editor, Amita (Mala Sinha), and her younger sister, Sunita (Tanuja), both find themselves falling for the paper’s idealistic …

Anarkali

Anarkali looks at the mythical and legendary love of Prince Salim (Pradeep Kumar), the son of Akbar with the court …

Milap

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

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 …