The green light of a distant dock twinkling tantalisingly. Whispering of irretrievable gifts, of hope. Of innocence..that time chipped away at soundlessly. A man, alone on the other side of the bay, reaching out, trying to grasp it. ** Diaphanous curtains filling up ...Read More
In the 70s and the 80s, cinema was an Eastman colour, 70 mm or cinema-scope as the case may be, 'cannot bear to miss a scene' event. And if you have not watched Trishul and Deewar or Kala Patthar or Sholay in a cinema hall, you ...Read More
On October 10, 1964, the whole nation was shocked to hear about the sudden and tragic death of the great stalwart of Hindi cinema Guru Dutt. Not only because he was a great film director, producer and actor; but because he ...Read More
Oprah's Next Chapter: India captured for posterity by TLC and Discovery is simply stunning. In all the wrong ways. Take the moment when she walks, (or staggers, her weight has become impossible for her to handle in more ways than ...Read More
My first memory of Rajesh Khanna is the song, "Accha Toh Hum Chalte Hain (Aan Milo Sajna, 1970) and of me sighing exaggeratedly like he did in the song. And of listening to his songs from Mere Jeevan Sathi (1972) in an ...Read More
Vehmon gumaan se duur duur… Yakeen ki hadd ke paas paas… Dil ko bharam yeh ho gaya… Unko humse pyaar hai.. Rekha and Amitabh Bachchan framed by gregariously nodding yellow tulips. And a universal hope encased in the above lines. And romance ...Read More
There is an unavenged little boy in Karan Johar. A son who saw his naively golden-hearted father not getting his due in an industry driven by merciless opportunism so it is apt that Johar should pick a Father India metaphor to ...Read More
I learnt at five just what Hindi cinema means to middle class India when I heard my father talk about Dilip Kumar's death scene in Ganga Jamuna.``Tabahi macha di,'' (he was devastating) he said. Films were a part of everything we ...Read More
Watching Amitabh Bachchan as he said goodbye to this season of Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) on Sony was for some reason, intensely moving. My mother, a regular watcher of the show and me, an occasional one, had tears in our eyes that we tried ...Read More
There is something beautiful about hunger. Especially when it oozes out of an actor on the screen and sears you bone to soul. You see this hunger in actors who are destined for extraordinary success. In the way their eyes blaze, their ...Read More
First things first. This is not the first time Prakash Jha has made a film on education. He made Hip Hip Hurray (1984), possibly the first Indian sports film set in a school. It was among other things, a comment ...Read More
Bbuddhah Hoga Tera Baap opens with the iconic AB poster from Deewar silhouetted against the credits and those who grew up in that era, instantly feel the rush of blood going to their head. There was nothing, NOTHING like watching ...Read More
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