Actor-director Rajat Kapoor contradicts the cliches of fame without saying a word.The three time National Award winner’s body of work speaks for him and also for his need to create content that does not necessarily conform to commercial stipulations. It is easy to see why in a star-driven business, it would be tough for an independent […]
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Kapoor & Sons: Bitter, Sweet And Truthful
Watching Shakun Batra’s Kapoor & Sons (Since 1921) is like reading a book you are slowly but surely falling in love with. A book that you read curled up in a window seat on a rainy day, with a cup of tea by your side, hoping that the story will never end because it makes you taste […]
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 […]
Meenal Agarwal: Imaginer Of All Things
Working with acclaimed art director Suzanne Caplan Merwanji (whose work in Farhan Akhtar’s film Dil Chahta Hai gave Hindi cinema, a new design template) in the capacity of a photographer, Meenal Agarwal never really thought she would get sucked into the world of creating multi-dimensional cinematic contexts. Contexts where stories can live, breathe and […]
Rajat Kapoor: A Sudden Shower
It is the season of awards in the Hindi film industry and it isn’t often that small films get their own share of confetti and applause on podiums reserved for glistening blockbusters. But director and actor Rajat Kapoor and the Ankhon Dekhi team were taken by surprise when their little film with a big […]
Rajat Kapoor: A Natural Storyteller
BANGALORE: Is Hamlet you and me and everyone in between? Is he, denuded of his geography and history, just someone torn between his possibilities and his realities? Aren’t we all? Is he a man of suppressed humour, someone craving to laugh at the injustice of it all, aching to discard the accoutrements of […]
Press Release: Nothing Like Lear in Bangalore
After performing Piya Behrupiya to a fabulous response from press and public at the recently concluded Rangashankara Festival, The Company Theatre is back with “NOTHING LIKE LEAR”. This is a devised theatre performance based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, is directed by Rajat Kapoor and performed alternately by Atul Kumar and Vinay Pathak. For any information..contact […]
Beguiling Sunshine
In Zoya Akhtar’s Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, we first see Kalki Koechlin melting away in milky sweetness, pouty and wide-eyed, smiling and dewy with joy next to the man she is going to marry. As jokes are cracked, a toast given and a cloyingly sweet song sung, she looks blissfully happy. Just moments later, she […]
“The Work Makes Itself.”
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 common thread in all pursuits is the need to tweak, deviate, be new, be alive […]
Delhi Sips From The Blue Mug
When a play has been declared ‘Housefull’ two weeks before it is being staged, you know its fame has preceded it. I would not have got to watch Atul Kumar’s The Blue Mug either (The last ticketed show is today at Delhi’s Kamani Auditorium), if it had not been for the intervention of a common friend […]
Rajat Kapoor: Promises To Keep
There is a moment in Dil Chahta Hai when in a festive sangeet crackling with sudden hostility, Rajat Kapoor rises and stands next to Aamir Khan. His nervousness masked by the way he touches his nose fleetingly. But you know instantly whose side he is on and you remember that moment. Just as you remember the scene in Monsoon Wedding […]
Memory Is A Blue Mug
Have you noticed, how for every point, life offers a counterpoint? As if to remind you that for every ‘this,’ there is a ‘that?’ And for every Delhi Belly, there is The Blue Mug? How absolutely wonderful that on a day when my memory had been reduced to a cuss word and the rumble of someone’s upset stomach, life also […]