Image: Screenshot by AG from the film ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ (The Cloud-capped Star, 1960), Direction: Ritwik Ghatak, Sound: Mrinal Guha...

The three Ganguly Brothers – of the iconic Chalti ka Naam Gaadi (1958) – were a part of me, many of us I should think, but we never...

Image: Screenshot by AG from the film ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’ (The Cloud-capped Star, 1960), Direction: Ritwik Ghatak, Sound: Mrinal Guha...

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

A still from The Body Beautiful (1991) A young budding filmmaker whom I was mentoring once, had proposed to make a documentary film on...

Priyadarshan Curiously, at times you miss a filmmaker whom you may have squelched for his rumble tumble cinema (many of them hits). But...

Comprising several characters whose lives intersect in Paris through an unfortunate incident involving the insult of Maria, a homeless...

Image: Screenshots from the film + collage by AG. You might have wondered to see the credit titles and sketches from Ritwik Ghatak’s film...

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

Image: A close-up of Neeta’s mother (Geeta Dey) from Ritwik Ghatak’s film ‘Meghe Dhaka Tara’, screenshot by AG In a profound tribute to...

There are a few geniuses of cinema that I have met. The ones I admire for their sheer consistency, originality and a religious devotion...

American indie cinema has always thrown up surprises at regular intervals. This time it is TO LESLIE (2022), based on a true account of a...

Mita Vashisht in Kumar Shahani's Kasba(1991) Kasba (The Town) is a 1991 Hindi film directed by Kumar Shahani. It is based on a short...

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

Pankaj Kapoor in Tapan Sinha's Ek Doctor Ki Maut(1990). Tapan Sinha’s Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1990) shows how scientific research and...

A twisted tale surrounding the theft of gold bars smuggled from Dubai to Kochi is what Mridul Nair’s KASARGOLD (Malayalam, 2023) is...

Image: extreme close-up of Ustad Bahadur Khan in a sarod recital scene from ‘Subarnarekha’ (1965) Béla Balázs, the writer of the book...

Filmmaker Amos Gitai called a close-up an ‘exclamation mark’ in cinematography. “But you don’t want exclamation marks all over the...

Arundhati Roy & Raghubir Yadav in Pradi Krishen's Massey Sahib(1980). In 1980, Pradip Krishen won the first prize in a script-writing...