Sometime back, Aamir Khan was reviled because his wife was disturbed by what she read in the newspapers and for the sake of their son, wondered if they should settle in another country. Khan said loud and clear that it shocked and devastated him that his wife could feel that level of fear. In the […]
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Tom Alter: The Passionate Indian
Actor, author, columnist, passionate aesthete, Padma Shri Tom Alter has just arrived in the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore to deliver a lecture on ‘Sports & Arts in Modern India’. If he is tired, it doesn’t show because Tom is used to being many things all at once. Over the last few days, he has […]
Why We Must Be Free To Disagree
Last week, it was Shruti Seth and Kavita Krishnan. This week, it is Amartya Sen who is being hounded on Twitter. For saying that the government is interfering too much in the functioning of educational institutions among other things. All it needs is a dissenting view-point to get the Internet mob to spew vitriol. […]
Why FTII Is Up In The Arms..
When an institution produces artistes who are going to possibly shape the way we perceive the world, it must have inspirational administrators and teachers. The enormity of the influence an enlightened guide can have on a student can be seen in the way former FTII (Film and Television Institute) students talk about mentors like Kumar […]
Irene Dhar Malik: Editor’s Cut
Filmmaker Onir’s soon to be released film Chauranga taps into the prevalent politics over love and caste. It narrates the story of a 14-year-old Dalit boy in rural India who is killed for writing a love letter. Irene Dhar Malik, Onir’s sister and film editor, is busy with the post-production of the film and took […]
Ghatak:The Maverick
In an age when film makers masquarade as reformers, it is only apt that one remember the flag bearers of the REAL New Wave in Indian Cinema that had its inception in the early 50’s through the mid 70’s. A beacon of this New Wave was Ritwik Ghatak. The Anarchist. The Rebel. The quintessential Bengali […]
A Long Pause called Mani Kaul
Many many years ago, I saw a bit of Mani Kaul’s debut film Uski Roti on Doordarshan and what struck me even though I was a child then, was a cinematic vocabulary unlike any I had seen or had been exposed to. This film had pauses and long moments of silence when no one seemed in a […]