Victoria is a Paris-based criminal lawyer with two kids. As she goes about her days, she has to juggle between fighting her ex-husband...

Naushad Tall, lithe, spotlessly dressed – black sherwanis suited him the most. Naushad Ali was so at home conjuring tunes on a piano that...

A socialite woman (Glenn Close) sinks into irreversible coma and her dissolute husband (Jeremy Irons in an Oscar-winning role) is accused...

Still photography could well be the kick-off point towards videography, and who knows? ..even cinematography. Take Wim Wenders, Spike...

Yash Chopra Imagine, Yash Chopra, his wife Pam, trusty cinematographer Manmohan Sigh and I in a helicopter, hovering over a fairy...

A young motorbike courier and small-time crook in search of his lost love forms the core of the plot of Lou Ye’s SUZHOU RIVER (2000,...

Undeniably, we romanticize the movies we were weaned on during our childhood, exaggerating the   precious memories tattooed on our hearts...

This is an autobiographical essay by the legendary French filmmaker Agnes Varda made to commemorate her 80th birthday in which she traces...

Grandma Fayazi, my educator in movie matters, had a thing about Vyjayanthimala. So one January afternoon, she’d bundled me up in a...

Will, a war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), lives illegally in the reserved forest with his teenage...

Vijay Tendulkar(1928-2008) An overnight bag  perched on his lap, he had reclined into his seat at an auditorium of the Film and...

As the fortunes of a wealthy family in Rio de Janeiro crumble, its teenage son Jean must come to terms with it; but unlike his parents...

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

Saif Ali Khan in Omkara(2006) Once, on a weekday evening, a sulky roly-poly kid who kept interrupting his mother on her terrace flat on...

A young woman, Jean returns to Bangkok from Sweden after three years, inspired by the ideas of minimalism and undertakes to de-clutter...

Chishū Riyũ in Late Spring(1949) “If I go to lonely island with only one film it would still be Tokyo Story”, Aki Kaurismaki “Ozu is my...

Social media despite the clampdowns is a relatively democratic space where one can express oneself about anything, right from what one...

Bhagwan Dada The fast-crumbling chawl in an emaciated by-lane was a brisk 10-minute walk away from Dadar station. I had been asked by...

POKHAR KE DUNU PAAR (2022, Bihar) deals with a young couple who had eloped to Delhi but are forced to come back to their hometown in...

Chetna(1970) For sure, he had an USP. Sex, lies and the exploitation of women at different levels of the social strata were his preferred...