Friday April 29th, 2016 sees the release of Amitabha Singh’s Shortcut Safaari. A qualified cinematographer from the FTII and one who …
Nil Battey Sannata
The title might confuse you as it confused me but when one is focussed on a film, does it matter …
The Economics Of a Super Hit!
With his Hindi-Tamil bilingual Chandralekha/Chandraleka (1948), SS Vasan successfully expanded his market from South India to a pan Indian one. …
Power
The best thing about any brazenly forthright commercial film where the star is the protagonist, the script, the dialogue, the …
Shankhachil
Shankhachil is a story of the physical and emotional journey of a family along the Indo-Bangladesh border and is also a …
Fan
The idea of a movie superstar tormented by a fanatic fan who happens to be his lookalike plays out like something …
Theri
As expected, Theri is standard formulaic fare: a glowing ode to its star and little else. Films with big mass …
Ozhivu Divasathe Kali
In one of his poems, Ayyappa Panicker paraphrases Sri Narayana Guru, the great social reformer of Kerala, “Don’t tell caste, …
The Jungle Book
With Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg changed the idea of the role that CGI and VFX could play in a mainstream …
Ghare Baire
In 1905, pursuing the colonial policy of Divide and Rule, Lord Curzon, the then-Viceroy of India, proposed the splitting up …