My husband’s aunts were visiting us. One is 72, the other 81. They like to watch Zee News every night …
Round and About – II
With Wanted last year and now Dabangg, Salman Khan seems to have found his winning formula. There’s no one who …
Step Treatment
Karan Johar has stated in an interview that filmmakers are forced to look towards foreign films for content, because there …
New Theatres: A Cinematic Equivalence of Literature
New Theatres, a Kolkata based film studio, was one of the premier filmmaking institutions that promoted cinema as art and …
Why Can’t Critics Be Critical?
As a film critic, I have noticed that filmmakers – directors, producers, stars, actors – most of them, do not …
Politics in Madhopur
Raajneeti is what happens the morning after a particularly greasy, spicy, mass-produced dinner the night before. In Madhopur, everyone struggles …
A Tale of Two Cities
Recently I bumped into an old friend of mine at a suburban mall in Bombay. We knew each other from …
Public Hai, Yeh Sab Janti Hai
When Mithun turns with eyes glowing like embers in Manmohan Desai’s “Ganga Jamuna Saraswati” and delivers – Ek artist ko …
If it’s Indian cinema, it must be Bollywood!
Recently, there has been a flurry of articles all over on Southern cinema heroes, in particular, Vikram, Suriya and Rana …
Preview: Singam
Singam is easily one of the most awaited Tamil films with it being Suriya’s 25th film and Director Hari’s 10th film. This is …