On the historic midnight of Independence of August 14/15 1947, India finally became independent. But there was no official film …
Riding The Same Horse Twice!
It’s quite ironic that yesteryear star writer duo, Salim-Javed, sued the makers of the new Zanjeer (2013) for copyright infringement …
What Is Wrong With Contemporary Bengali Cinema?
“What is wrong with contemporary Bengali cinema” is a question based on the understanding that everything else is right whatever …
The Relevance of the Oscars
34 million viewers watched he 88th Academy Awards in America. This is an 8-year low in number of viewers. However, …
Beyond Apu: 20 Favourite Film Roles of Soumitra Chatterjee
Is it not one of the most surprising things about Indian cinema in general and Bengali cinema in particular that …
Dada, Ami Bachte Chai
In 2008 when my sister was touring Japan, I asked her to carry DVDs of Yasujiro Ozu’s films. On her …
Best of 2015
Yet another year of Bhai-dom went by, with the top two grossers both belonging to Salman Khan. It was a …
No Mise-en-Scene, No Cinema
“Wim Wenders places a camera anywhere and creates cinema!”, I exclaimed after a retrospective of his films at FTII in …
Saeed Mirza on Returning the National Award
On Noverber 5, 2015 Saeed Mirza, along with 23 other filmmakers, returned his National Award in protest of political appointments …
Being Rekha
If you close your eyes and think ‘Rekha’, the resultant image is now two-dimensional. Over the thirty odd years of …