Woody Allen in autobiography, “Apropos of Nothing” talks and celebrates innumerable influences and experiences of watching diverse films...

New York is a city of Broadway musicals and the Avanta Garde at the same time. From Bolero to Jazz and from Beethoven to bagels and...

Faye Dunaway in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) The first time I saw Hollywood star and actor Faye Dunaway was with Jack Nicholson in...

Ismat Chughtai Bollywood star autobiographies and biographies  are high in sales but low on telling the whole truth and nothing but the...

The inaugural edition of the Mumbai International Student Film Festival (MISFF) was organised by Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI) and...

Gaiety-Galaxy complex in Bandra, Mumbai The maternal side of my family was steeped in movie watching, entertainment news and gossip...

From a fistful of film reviewers in Mumbai’s prolific show town in the last millennium, today they have escalated into an incalculable...

Amitabh Bachchan with 'Allarakha' in Manmohan Desai's Coolie(1983) Right, there has been the widely admired and National Award-winning...

When AMANUSH was released in 1975, I was a kid and not taken to watch the film. Starring Uttam Kumar who was the reigning superstar of...

Ashman Misra with Tom Cruise at the Rogue Nation London Premiere(2015). ...So, 2015, July the 19th I believe, this was a good week...

Image: In Ritwik Ghatak’s film ‘Titash Ekti Nadir Naam’ (1973), Basanti (Rosy Samad), screenshot by Amrit Gangar. ‘MOTHERHOOD’ AWAKENS...

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie(1972). A hard-core criminal locked up in a high security jail meticulously plans his escape, by...

I was in class fifth or sixth, I do not exactly remember, when my father Shri Ranjit Kapoor took me to FICCI to see a package of seven...

Rishi Kapoor & Nitu Singh in Khel Khel Mein(1975). As a kid born in a film loving family (read masala Hindi films), films was our form of...

Irrfan on the set of The Song of Scorpions. The story of The Song of Scorpions emerged from flares and flickers of images in disturbing...

Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi & Jennifer Kendal on the set of Junoon. The year was 1977 and my father, Dr. Raj Kumar’s closest friends,...

It all started with bicycle rides with my bosom Satyajit Roy Choudhury. We were in the Xth standard and he used to take me on his bicycle...

20th Nov 1970 was a memorable day for me, for Gulshan Rai's first production "Johny Mera Naam" was released in Bombay, Delhi UP & East...

Woody Allen, amongst other masters of cinema celebrates the cinema, the movies, the great stars of their times, ones they grew up...

Remembering Utpal Dutt on his 94th birth anniversary Most Indian viewers remember Utpal Dutt from the Hindi films that he acted in, from...

The economic parameters within which mainstream cinema works, world over is well known to everyone, as are the means of production,...

In Diptakirti Chaudhuri’s deeply engrossing account WRITTEN BY SALIM-JAVED, Salim Khan quotes Alexander Korda on the brevity that should...

English movies which essentially meant Hollywood films (Hollywood being the benchmark for “good cinema” catering to the English-speaking...

Indian film scholar, historian, critic and curator, Amrit Gangar refers to two letters from Danish auteur, Carl Dreyer and Indian master,...

The year is 1987, at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. The month of August in Pune is a misty drizzle. The air...

‘Battleship Potemkin’ premiered at the historic Bolshoi Theatre auditorium in Moscow on December 21, 1925. The audience consisted of the...

1. Poster for Ambrish - 1934 Deco applied to Indian motifs by J. Mistri. Stylized female figures of the kind seen here appear also in the...

Today almost 50-plus years later, 'Deep Throat' (1972) has become a cult classic. And to think once upon a time, it was a forbidden crash...

1. Poster for Bhedi Trishul - 1938 Art - S K Murthi. The tiaras return, with a touch of fantasy Deco. 2. Poster for Radhika - 1941...

Prabhat Picture's Mahja Mulga starring the hit pair of the 30s nd 40s: Shanta Hubliker and Sahu Modak(1938). Art by JB Dikshit. 2. ...

40 minutes before the film premier: Wife of producer/director: "You are going to have acid reflux with the amount of coffee you are...

1. Gorgeous poster of director Hiren Bose and super star Surendra's, Mahageet / Eternal Music - 1937 Art: J Mistri 2. Gramophone Singer...

1. Dr. Madhurika - 1935 Art: J Mistri. Art Deco represents progress and modernity in Indian movie art. 2. Bambai Ki Billi / Wild Cat -...

Disappointed Actor/Actress: “And I knew I'd just have that 45 second scene in the film. I was counting on that 45 second footage. They...

On set, between takes, exterior shot wide scene, lot of extras and other actors Snooty character actor: "That's my chair, you are...

1. SHER-E-BAGHDAD (1946) D. G. Pradhan did posters and matte designs for Homi Wadia's independent productions. 2. MAYA MAHAL (1949)...

Break time on set. Lot of hustle and bustle on the sets. 19-year-old Ingenue: "I don't understand. There were no names written on them....

1. Advertisement for PUBJAB MAIL (1939) Stunt studio Wadia Movietone's movies were inspired by American serials and railroad thrillers....

Booklet for Inquilab / After The Earthquake (1935) Art - Kidar. The director Kidar Sharma worked on New Theatres' posters. In his...

Large white walled well lit office space. Smell of an expensive organic incense wafting through this space giving the room a spiritual ...

7th floor of an upscale apartment complex, near the lift. Affluent charismatic neighbour " I saw you in the film last night. You had two...

For the unversed, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) is a Nigerian author who is counted amongst the most influential women writers in...

Khooni Taj / All for the crown - 1932 Collage by G V Wategaonkar 2. Booklet for Bhedi Rajkumar / Mysterious Prince - 1932 Art by G V...

Male assistant director handling 400 people crowd: "Fu#$ they never give me loudspeakers. I am sounding like Stephen Hawkings speech...

1. Lanka / The Land of Lust - 1930 The poster merges ab art school pencil sketch into a collage of fantasy elements. 2.Burkhewala /...

“Search for my lost earring, my love” (‘Dhoondho dhoondho re sajna’, Ganga Jamuna, 1961), sings Vyjayanthimala as she dances in graceful...

Parent of 5 year old child actor: "My son is sleepy. He needs to sleep now. " Director: "We just need two minutes to wrap him up. It's...

Producer's wife : - " Why are you so hell bent on having such great food for the unimportant members of the cast and crew? It's going...

It has been a school thing, my fascination for Malayalam cinema. It all started with the films of Seema and IV Sasi like, “ Avalude...

Actor: ( eyes roll) "He's a kid wearing black sun glasses all the time. Who does he think he is? Michael Jackson!" Well Wisher: "He's...