As an old Rishi Kapoor and an older Amitabh Bachchan come to a screen near you in 102 Not Out, a tribute to the ever-old man of Hindi cinema, AK Hangal As the resolutely old are set to find a story celebrating a centenarian on Hindi screen this Friday in Umesh Shukla’s 102 Not Out, […]

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It’s celebration time for the makers of Newton, Baahubali and Toilet: Ek Prem Katha Mainstream blockbuster Baahubali: The Conclusion won the National Award for best popular film providing wholesome entertainment, besides being named for special effects and action direction. Ganesh Acharya won for his choreography for the Hindi film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha. Hindi film […]

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In literature and on screen, mangoes often inspire lyrical thoughts. However, there isn’t a rich enough repertoire to match the fruit’s popularity As mangoes are on their way to hit the summer fruits market, there is obviously more to the fruit than the clichéd Alphonso features. One may also be sceptical about the sense of […]

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The concept of Mile Sur worked when born, failed when reborn. It can’t strike strike a chord with a generation which sees celebrities every day on the small screen Three decades separate two generations in India. One grew up on musical homilies on national integration on Doordarshan. The other trolls or fawns a cross-section of […]

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The Hindi film industry has produced very few songs for this season, compared to the other three seasons. Perhaps love is scorched by the tropical sun While literary scholars can argue what T S Eliot actually meant when he called April the cruellest month, it rings true for India. It’s not always about what April […]

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Great works of literature have not done too well as movies whereas mediocre books do better. Film-makers must find a way adapt the missing word More than a decade ago, in the afterglow of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, VS Naipaul said that novels had outlived their utility and were likely to […]

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An interview with IAWRT Festival Director Aradhana Kohli Kapur This is the only festival of its kind in India. The Asian women’s film festival is organised every year by the International Association of Women in Radio & Television (IAWRT)-India chapter. The 14th edition has just concluded at the India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi, […]

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She glittered in an age of VCPs and roadside video parlours, dimmed with the advent of cable TV and faded away as the internet spread In mid-September of 1989, a popular video cassette player (VCP) renting outlet in the sleepy district town of Khagaria in north Bihar had put up a small board at the […]

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