Madhubala: It was in her smile — the flirtatious half-smile that hinted at more stormy secrets within. Madhubala is still considered by many connoisseurs to be...
K.D.: This 2019 Yoodlee production was critically acclaimed for refreshingly humanising a patriarch rather than glorifying him as a proverbial pillar of strength. There is an...
Okay, so this is not quite the mood that we would have liked for Eid. Social distancing when the order of the day is embracing even the ...
Dosti(1964): Long before Friendship Day was invented and much before Bikram and Bala, that is Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor and their over-the-top antics in Gunday friendship acquired an edge of pulsating poignancy in this touching Rajshri film about...
* “Jaag Utha Insan” (1984): Though it was “Himmatwala” that launched her into stardom in Bollywood, it was this unsuccessful nugget of a film produced by...
1. 404: The smartly-written screenplay about a doughty medical student who befriends the boy who killed himself in the same room has echoic shades of Kiran Rao’s...
Refugee (2000): No film that followed ever captured Kareena Kapoor’s radiant beauty and ethereal persona as ably as this. Director J P Dutta had made...
Next Enti(Telugu, Netflix): Telugu cinema is changing fast. Baahubali, Arjun Reddy and now Next Enti. Not that I am suggesting the third has a place along with...
Women’s Day 2020 Special: Bollywood is not a place for non-conformists. Women who live life on their own terms are seen as trouble-makers and shunned. And yet...
Films were always meant to change the way we look at life. Alas,they seldom do that. Busy as they are trying to desperately entertain us,movies forget their original raison d’etre to raise our level of social consciousness...
Madhubala: It was in her smile — the flirtatious half-smile that hinted at more stormy secrets within. Madhubala is still considered by many connoisseurs to be...
When we think of teachers and pupils we always think of idealized mentor-pupil relationships as seen in films like To Sir With Love and Taare Zameen Par. But relationships between the...
As Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Turns 10 Here’s looking at the 10 most celebrated friendship films of filmdom. 10 Friendship Films you must watch with your...
1. Roja: Mani Ratnam’s 1992 film was about a honeymooning couple Arvind Swamy and Madhoo’s bliss being rudely interrupted when the husband is taken hostage by a Kashmiri militant, played by Pankaj Kapoor. Fascinating fusion of...
Darbaan: There is something about Rabindranath Tagore’s stories that lends itself to great cinema. Darbaan is a very good piece of cinema.Artistically imagined and gently executed, it has the very...
Two amazing films on OTT Mastram(2014) Once upon a time, pornography was read in the loo, not seen on the internet. The imagination soared. Just think of...