The film critic in India is marginalized within the world of journalists in general and critics in particular. The investigative …
Phone Bhoot
Gurmmeet Singh’s Phone Bhoot is a laboured effort in the genre of horror-comedy that neither has enough jump-scary moments nor enough …
Ganga
Bilash (Niranjan Roy) belongs to the Macchmara (fish-killer) community – fishermen who net hilsa and other fishes in the river …
Of Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh and Kanchenjungha…
At first thought, it’s inconceivable to even think of a connection between Shammi Kapoor and Asha Parekh with Satyajit Ray …
Ek Thi Larki
The three major reasons to watch Ek Thi Larki are Meena Shorey, Meena Shorey and … well yes, Meena Shorey. …
Incomplete Films: Shikwa
One of Hindi cinema’s biggest tragedies is that Dilip Kumar and Nutan only came together as a pair much, much …
Ram Setu
Abhishek Sharma’s ‘desi’ version of Indiana Jones, Ram Setu (2022), explores the journey of an atheist and archaeologist, Dr Aryan Kulshrestha (Akshay …
Anil Chatterjee
Anil Chatterjee is considered as one of the best actors to have emerged in the Bengali cinema during the early …
A Nostalgic Trip Through Single Screen Theatres In Bombay
I still remember in the 1950s when I was still in school, Plaza theatre in Dadar, Bombay, was screening V …
Akaler Sandhaney
A film unit led by its director (Dhritiman Chatterjee) arrives at a village called Hatui to shoot a film on …