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...