It has been over one year since Keenan Santos and Reuben Fernandez were killed in Mumbai by eve-teasers for trying to protect their girl-friends. Their loved ones are still waiting for justice though finally charges have been framed. However, never before in ...Read More
At a recent event, I was meant to give a talk on "Mumbai and the power of collective conscience". I went prepared for the speech, but the unimaginable happened.Something that has never happened to me before. The moment my turn came, and ...Read More
One of my favourite AK Hangal performances is that of a smiling, chess obsessed patriarch in Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Guddi. He has a little room to himself at the entrance of the home that he shares with his son, his daughter-in-law and ...Read More
Note: I met Shernaz Patel in 2007 and it was a moment of personal significance considering, I grew up watching her on TV in the best years of Doordarshan and had read about her, without ever imagining that I would ...Read More
Rajat Kapoor is not made for water-tight definitions. So yes, he acts in films and writes them and directs them too but then there is a theatre and the fact he acts on stage and yes, directs too. The one ...Read More
What The Godfather is to the male of the species, An Affair to Remember is to those who propagate the species. It makes women believe in that crazy little thing called love. Without us identifying with and holding up as ...Read More
Sheeba Chadha's gaze is like a flame cutting through fog. Almost as if everything she has felt and lived has been melted in a furnace and poured into her eyes. She is incredibly vital on screen, on stage, on television and ...Read More
Ever since I saw Raj Kapoor and Nargis in the song, Pyar Hua Ikraar Hua, my idea of monsoon romance was sealed; a single umbrella with me hanging onto a love that could have very well been my Siamese soul. ...Read More
The poster for Memories in March read - "separated by memories... united by grief". For little over 100 minutes of this Sanjoy Nag film, we see reflections of life refracted through the memories of Arati (Dipti Naval) who has lost Sid, her only ...Read More
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor has quietly passed into the night. And it is time to dust all the cliches about her and air them. Her marriages. The big love storms. Her near misses and then the two Oscars. Richard Burton. Richard Burton ...Read More
Hindi cinema, you must admit, is a singularly unique experience that hurtles past intellectual pretensions to suffuse you with joy. And that is why, it is tragic or darkly comic that many Hindi film critics today are chronically joyless. And ...Read More
Yesterday, a tabloid that comes free with a leading national newspaper carried fuzzy but unmistakable images of a young couple being forced to get intimate in a public place by some perverts. The story was supposedly professing sympathy for the couple whose MMS was now being circulated widely. Yet the images carried ...Read More
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