Kumar Shahani: The Tarang that needs to continue by Sharad Raj
Kumar Shahani on location, Tarang. Pic by Roshan Shahani Pelva Naik, one of the few woman Dhrupad singers of India while working on the...
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Digital Cahier
May 18, 20234 min read
Forever young: A 100 to Mrinal Sen by Ranjan Das.
Sometime in the mid-80s, Mahesh Bhatt commented that he found Mrinal Sen’s films extremely boring. Sen retorted, “If I had not proved...
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Sep 13, 20224 min read
From King Lear to The Image Book: Sharad Raj remembers Jean-Luc Godard(1930-2022)
Photograph by GAETAN BALLY/Keystone/Corbis The year was 1989, a print of Jean-Luc Godard's latest film, King Lear, an adaptation of...
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Oct 11, 20212 min read
Just Cinema's humble obituary of the formidable Venu by Kerala Varma
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...
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Sep 24, 20215 min read
Mankada: A tribute to another Ravi Varma, the low profile cinematographer of Adoor by Kerala Varma
I first heard of Malayalam cinematographer Mankada Ravi Varma (1926-2010) in 1970 (when I was a pre-degree student in Devagiri College,...
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Sep 12, 20214 min read
The Original ‘Modern Girl’: the undervalued Sheila Ramani remembered by Khalid Mohamed
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...
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Aug 26, 20214 min read
BEING RITA HAYWORTH: by Sharad Raj
(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...
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Aug 18, 20216 min read
GULZAR: A TWINKLE IN THE EYE OF LANGUAGE by Juhi Saklani
"Writers’ conference mein koi bahut serious baat nahi hoti... main aise hi chashmein mote laga leta hoon.” (Nothing very serious happens...
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Aug 4, 20214 min read
Fathoming a genius: by Ranjan Das
For a certain period during the Emergency of 1975-76 the All India Radio, under the diktats of the Information & Broadcasting Ministry...
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Jul 18, 20215 min read
The charisma & calibre of Rajesh Khanna by Murali Gopalan
My mother would often pull my leg about my fondness for Rajesh Khanna. Never mind that she loved listening to numbers from Anand, Daag...
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Jul 3, 20218 min read
Parthajit Baruah on Adoor Gopalakrishnan, as he turns 80.
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...
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Jun 12, 20213 min read
Sanjeev Kumar: lip-syncing with the eyes by Shraddha Kaul
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...
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Jun 10, 20213 min read
An ode to Dilip Kumar by APS Malhotra
Reams and reams have been written by aficionados of world cinema, as well as social scientists, documenting the legend of Yusuf Khan,...
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Jun 7, 20219 min read
" Love me if you can": Juhi Saklani remembers Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
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...
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Jun 1, 20215 min read
Anand: 1970- an ode to Hrishi da. Middle of the road cinema at its best by APS Malhotra
In the field of art and expression, film making is perhaps the most team oriented medium - where the outcome rests on the collective...
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May 2, 20214 min read
Khalid Mohamed remembers The Master, Satyajit Ray, on his 100th birth anniversary, on May 2.
He was an acquired taste, still is. Because it’s a given, every mid-generation filmmaker of spleen in India salutes his memory. Sorrily...
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May 1, 20215 min read
A Tale For Another 100 Years: Shilpa Ranade on recreating Ray's masterpiece GGBB!
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...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
Rishi Kapoor: a childhood gone by Sharad Raj
To be honest I had never imagined that Hindi movies one day will be without Rishi Kapoor. Despite being aware that death is inevitable,...
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Mar 8, 20214 min read
SAHIR & I: A Journey From Romance To Revolution by Zaman Habib
It was the early 80s, I was writing my first love letter. To make it more striking and stirring or, for better words, impressively...
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Dec 16, 20203 min read
Adieu Soumitra babu..... By Rwita Dutta
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,...
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Dec 16, 20203 min read
Tribute: Soumitra Chatterjee (1935 – 2020) Shoma A. Chatterji
I knew him quite well over the past two decades. We would meet occasionally, at press conferences, functions, and shared the platform...
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