Beyond The Impossible

Beyond The Impossible

 The Impossible opens to the shot of a blank screen roaring like the sea..as if gathering all its might for a kill but then you realise it is just an airplane carrying a family away to a Christmas vacation. The family of five..unpacks mundane conversations in a picture perfect tropical beach resort just a few […]

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Imagine..

Imagine..

In a world where a random shooting spree  can take away 20 young lives in a school,  what do we need from not just our law makers, law enforcers, politicians but our musicians, artists, writers, film makers?  Through the ages, the arts have been the humans spirit’s escape from intolerance and violence. For cinema, music, […]

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The Life Of Lee

The Life Of Lee

  Ang Lee is a quiet and baffling auteur. Someone without a whole lot to say about his craft but like an operatic conductor, he orchestrates visual symphonies that no genre can contain. He can touch any genre and make it his own and always with a quiet felicity that juggles the magnificent, clutter breaking […]

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Talaash: Layered Moments

Talaash: Layered Moments

  Like Zoya Akhtar’s Luck By Chance, the evocative opening sequence of Reema Kagti Talaash tells (co-written by Zoya Akhtar)  a story in a tightly spun, unforgettable montage. Here the story is of the dispossessed and the marginalised. Invisible to a rushing, glittering- on- the- surface megapolis. The old woman with nowhere to go. The drug addict and the dog. […]

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The Definitive Heroine?

The Definitive Heroine?

Every film loving generation in India has had a definitive Hindi film heroine. Suraiya was possibly India’s first female superstar and was a perfect fit for the cinema of 40s and the 50s that was rich with Urdu poetry and elemental stories of passion and sacrifice. She was the reigning queen of the developing Talkie […]

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The Story So Far

The Story So Far

Serendipity often irrevocably alters preordained lives. Mona Ambegaonkar, of the fiercely intelligent eyes and a face like a living memory, for instance was going to study science and could not have imagined that one day she would become chief assistant director of Shekhar Kapoor’s Mr India. Or a model, writer, producer and director of documentaries, an actor working with renowned […]

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The Conspiracy Of Silence..

The Conspiracy Of Silence..

  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 the history of independent India have the young faced so many challenges as they […]

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