Ali Abbas Zafar’s Jogi (2022), currently streaming on Netflix, is set in 1984 against the backdrop of the horrific Sikh genocide that …
Ashok Mehta
This writer happened to meet Ashok Mehta in person just before and during the release of his big-budget directorial debut, …
Take 5: Noor Jehan Across The Border
I’ve always maintained that one of the biggest losses to Indian cinema at the time of the partition in 1947 …
Borderliner
As per Wikipedia, ‘Nordic Noir’ is very basically defined as a genre of crime fiction usually written from a police …
Ondanondu Kaaladalli
Despite the misgivings of his commander, Vejjada, medieval chieftain Maranayaka hires the services of an unemployed mercenary, Gandugali (Shankar Nag) …
Incomplete Films: Rano
In LV Prasad’s Raj Kapoor-Meena Kumari starrer Sharada (1957), lovers Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari struggle with their relationship after …
Classical Hollywood and His Girl Friday: An Analysis
“… the principles which Hollywood claims as its own rely on notions of decorum, proportion, formal harmony, respect for tradition, …
Deleted Songs: Anari Anari Re
Geeta Dutt was particularly unlucky when it came to her already recorded songs being deleted from films or not being …
Brahmāstra Part 1: Shiva
Brahmāstra Part 1: Shiva, the first instalment in director Ayan Mukerji’s ‘Astraverse’ trilogy, tells the tale of a young man, who …
When Dev Anand Fought The Evil Within
It was a chance discovery I made on Facebook. Apart from the English version of Guide (1965), Dev Anand had …