Akin to the Pirates Of The Caribbean series, the film may have worked much better with a lighter tone consistently …
Of Awards And Recipients: The Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2018
So, the 65th National Film Awards were announced today for the best of Indian cinema in 2017. On one level, …
Marupakkam
Ambi (Sekar) arrives in Kumbakonam from Delhi to see his ailing father, Vembu Iyer (Sivakumar). His father, an orthodox religious …
RIP Sumita Sanyal (1945-2017)…
I was introduced to her as Manju, shortened from her original name – Manjula Sanyal. She had come to our …
Vinod Khanna
Talk of rugged good looks in Hindi cinema and the first name that comes to mind is that of Vinod …
Pink
Pink, directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury and produced by Shoojit Sircar, is no one doubt a relevant film and you …
TE3N
Based on the Korean film, Montage (2013), TE3N could well have been an engaging edge-of-the-seat thriller but its sluggish pace and its …
When Big B Lost Out To Sanjay Khan
It is well-known that the hugely successful Amitabh Bachchan-Rekha partnership on-screen began with Dulal Guha’s Do Anjaane (1976), a film that …
Shatranj Ke Khiladi
It is 1856, a year before the Great Indian Mutiny and Lucknow, the capital of the kingdom of Awadh is …
Shakti Samanta
When he first arrived in Mumbai, Shakti Samanta was a lanky young man, who would follow filmmaker Phani Majumdar everywhere …