Catching up with Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound after nearly 10 years and watching his Marnie next day for the first time …
One-on-One With Suriya
He’s on a roll and easily the most successful actor in Tamil cinema for the last few years with his …
Suriya: Shining Through…
It was with the Tamil film Vaaranam Aayiram (2008), which I saw in April sometime last year, that I discovered …
Live Texting Pyaar Impossible
Upperstall’s flyingrodent heroically volunteered to review YRF’s latest Pyaar Impossible. Five minutes into the movie he called filmbear and after a …
Three Unseen Kurosawas
When you are in doubt and not sure what to watch from amongst the DVD collection that you have acquired …
The Last Kannada Superstar
When I had first heard about a film actor called Vishnuvardhan, I was already a die hard fan of ‘our’ …
If it’s a Hit, All izz Well
No one was happier than me when the Munna Bhai films succeeded so well. For one, they are both great …
Untold, Incomplete and Unreleased…
Let’s start with the obvious. India is easily the largest Film ‘Industry’ the world over or what one could call …
Climate Change Anybody?
I’m recently returned from Goa, where I was at IFFI for a few days, doing mostly non-IFFI things, hedonistic and …
Getting to Know Ingrid
My acquaintance with Ingrid Bergman was limited to films like Casablanca, Notorious, Spellbound and Bergman’s Autumn Sonata all these years …