Kumar Shahani on location, Tarang. Pic by Roshan Shahani Pelva Naik, one of the few woman Dhrupad singers of India while working on the...

Sometime in the mid-80s, Mahesh Bhatt commented that he found Mrinal Sen’s films extremely boring. Sen retorted, “If I had not proved...

Photograph by GAETAN BALLY/Keystone/Corbis The year was 1989, a print of Jean-Luc Godard's latest film, King Lear, an adaptation of...

Malayalam cinema lost one of its best actors and a man of immaculate aesthetics when Nedumudi Venu passed away today (11.10.2021) in a...

I first heard of Malayalam cinematographer Mankada Ravi Varma (1926-2010) in 1970 (when I was a pre-degree student in Devagiri College,...

She had just about managed a paragraph or two of an obituary in a few newspapers. The point is Sheila Ramani (1932-2015), passed away...

(October 17, 1918- May 14, 1987) With a pathological memory problem that I suffer from, I had only heard of Rita Hayworth but had no...

"Writers’ conference mein koi bahut serious baat nahi hoti... main aise hi chashmein mote laga leta hoon.” (Nothing very serious happens...

For a certain period during the Emergency of 1975-76 the All India Radio, under the diktats of the Information & Broadcasting Ministry...

My mother would often pull my leg about my fondness for Rajesh Khanna. Never mind that she loved listening to numbers from Anand, Daag...

Adoor Gopalakrishnan or fondly called as Adoor is 80 years old today, but he is still as vibrant as he was at FTII (1962-1965). Adoor, a...

During the making of Stagecoach, director John Ford angrily caught hold of the then young John Wayne by his chin and said, " Don't you...

Reams and reams have been written by aficionados of world cinema, as well as social scientists, documenting the legend of Yusuf Khan,...

KHWAJA AHMAD ABBAS [7 June 1914 - 1 June 1987] “Love me if you can”, says the Last Will and Testament of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. The desire...

In the field of art and expression, film making is perhaps the most team oriented medium - where the outcome rests on the collective...

He was an acquired taste, still is. Because it’s a given, every mid-generation filmmaker of spleen in India salutes his memory. Sorrily...

On the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray It would only be fitting to reflect upon the heritage of the work of the...

To be honest I had never imagined that Hindi movies one day will be without Rishi Kapoor. Despite being aware that death is inevitable,...

It was the early 80s, I was writing my first love letter. To make it more striking and stirring or, for better words, impressively...

The 50’s down 70’s is often considered as the “Golden Era” of Bengali Cinema, with the famous trio(Ray-Ghatak- Sen) are in full swing,...

I knew him quite well over the past two decades. We would meet occasionally, at press conferences, functions, and shared the platform...