Saumesh Bangera Saumesh Bangera’s cinema is a perfect manifestation of the phenomenon of democratisation of filmmaking since it got...

Technology rules. Consequently, die-hard collectors of Bollywood music soundtracks are in a fix. That thrill of rushing to the closest...

Mani Kaul is one of the few Indian filmmakers whose films kept exploring the ever-changing psyche of the Indian mind, giving rise to a...

Suresh Jindal ‘Hirsute’ is the description Sai Paranjpye and I had coined for him. With his abundant salt-and-pepper hair always brushed,...

The two are completely different, the songs of Amar Singh Chamkila of Punjab and Lavani of Maharashtra. While Chamkila was a pop singer...

Anand Bakshi At the outset, a quick run-through the facts: Bakshi Anand Prakash Vaid was born in Rawalpindi now in Punjab, to a Brahmin...

J.Jayalalithaa Never too late perhaps. I’d been avoiding the series with the longest barge-pole. On a fallow day, lately, I started on it...

Manoj Kumar as Bhagat Singh in Shaheed (1965) Either you were apprehensive about the lavish productions which he wrote, edited and...

Post-performance of a well-appreciated play, the sole actress of the group (played impressively by Zarin Shihab) is groped in her sleep...

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

TOKYO SONATA’S plot kicks off as a regular salaryman loses his job to cheap Chinese workers but hides the news from his family....

The last image I have stored of Mehmood is that of an ailing, helpless septuagenarian, in a baggy white kurta and brown cashmere shawl,...

It’s an eternal mystery. So many stalwart directors who contributed immeasurably in the last millennium to Mumbai-produced cinema have...

A young cell phone snatcher kills its owner and is subsequently arrested. While the grandmother of the thief tries to raise money for his...

The Zone of Interest( 2023, Photo courtesy A24) I hadn’t heard of Jonathan Glazer until a fortnight ago, when a colleague asked me if I...

Raaj Kumar & Priya Rajvansh in Heer Ranjha (1970) While tracking down Hindi cinema's golden oldies - through whichever source accessible...

In this post-truth world where everything is suspect, where emotion scores over facts and vicious disinformation proliferates under...

On seeing a bunch of Mani Ratnam’s early films, variously in Tamil and Telugu -- Mouna Ragam (1986),  Nayakan(1987), Geethanjali (1989)...

A newly-married 21-year-old student of criminology in need of money is roped in for a clandestine operation one night by a criminal...

Sridevi & Rajeev Ravindranathan in English Vinglish(2012) Ostensibly, Mumbai-produced cinema makes films in Hindustani, a blend of Hindi...