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When Resul almost walked out of Slumdog

Monday 23 February '09

The sound mixer, who's just picked up the Oscar for Best Sound Mixing had almost walked out of the film after a heated exchange with Boyle.
Wannabe candidate Shashi Tharoor ready for challenge

Saturday 14 February '09

Shashi Tharoor is undoubtedly one of the best debaters of India. But he was strangely evasive when it came to talking about his next move.
Sound of Applause

Friday 6 February '09

The celebration has begun in earnest for the triple nomination for sound designer Resul Pookutty...
Sound Sense

Tuesday 3 February '09

For Resul Pookutty—the BAFTA, Oscar and Cinema Audio Society (CAS) nominee for the Best Sound Design awar—-it’s not always about winning.
Reel translation

Tuesday 3 February '09

The euphoria over Slumdog Millionaire is at its peak. And one of the first names on Danny Boyle’s thank-you list is ‘Vikas Swarup’.
Wings of delight

Sunday 1 February '09

Years ago, Nissim Ezekiel drew similarities between a poet, lover and birdwatcher in one of his much appreciated poems.
Pookutty: Mumbai has made me, I owe award to city

Friday 23 January '09

Resul Pookutty completed a hat-trick on Thursday, with the Oscar nomination for sound mixing in Slumdog Millionaire. He has already bagged the BAFTA nomination....
A sound story of success

Friday 23 January '09

Resul Pookutty completed a hat-trick on Thursday, with the Oscar nomination for sound mixing. He has already bagged the BAFTA nomination in the best sound category and is one of five Sound Mixing nominees for the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Award.
Rocking on

Wednesday 21 January '09

Celebrating the success of good cinema is highly contagious. For each time the Rock on!! team broke into shrieks of joy with the announcement of a nomination or award for them at the Nokia 15th Annual Star Screen Award...
The Accidental Author

Tuesday 20 January '09

From being an accidental entrepreneur, Nandan Nilekani admits to have become an accidental author with Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century.
the Accidental Author

Tuesday 20 January '09

From being an accidental entrepreneur, Nandan Nilekani admits to have become an accidental author with Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century.
Rocking on

Monday 19 January '09

Celebrating the success of good cinema is highly contagious. For each time the Rock on!! team broke into shrieks of joy with the announcement of a nomination or award for them at the Nokia 15th Annual Star Screen Award...
Rocking on

Monday 19 January '09

Celebrating the success of good cinema is highly contagious. For each time the Rock on!! team broke into shrieks of joy with the announcement of a nomination or award for them...
Six decades on, Sartre’s anti-war essays find a Mumbai stage

Monday 19 January '09

Some bonds are forever. In the ’60s, Jayant Kripalani had extensively read Jean-Paul Sartre.
Rocking on all night long with six awards!

Monday 19 January '09

Celebrating the success of good cinema is highly contagious. For each time the Rock on!! team broke into shrieks of joy with the announcement of a nomination or award for them at the Nokia 15th Annual Star Screen Award, one was tempted to join them.
Rocking on

Monday 19 January '09

Celebrating the success of good cinema is highly contagious. For each time the Rock on!
Rocking on

Monday 19 January '09

Celebrating the success of good cinema is highly contagious. For each time the Rock on!
Rocking on

Monday 19 January '09

Celebrating the success of good cinema is highly contagious.
What’s in the mind?

Saturday 17 January '09

When Ranjit Hoskote spoke about “cross-genre writing” some time back, unsuspecting readers had hardly guessed that the Mumbai-based poet and art theorist would soon be presenting a bouquet of three plays — Karna...
Meet the man Danny Boyle wants to gift a million pounds

Wednesday 14 January '09

Raj Acharya was in for a pleasant surprise on Tuesday morning. The first assistant director of Slumdog Millionaire received a call from a London-based friend about Danny...
It’s on tonight: great cinema, plenty of glamour

Wednesday 14 January '09

It’s that time of the year again in Bollywood, and the season for awards begins with Screen Awards.
The dream merchant

Wednesday 14 January '09

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a story often told by our cinema, but it has a joyous heart...
Different strokes

Friday 9 January '09

When Mario de Miranda claims, “I’m a keen observer of people; they are generally doing something they should not be doing”, there is no scope for disagreeing with him.
Expression matters

Thursday 8 January '09

Soon after the publication of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali in English with an introduction by W B Yeats in 1912, came a rude shock. In a letter to his friend William Rothenstein...
Eye to the rights

Wednesday 7 January '09

Anthony Gilmore documents a shameful episode of East Asian history which the world has chosen to ignore.
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