Wednesday 19 August '09
Not much happens on the 13th floor. No loud parties, no drunken brawls, no spooky occurring, no saas bahu drama even.Saturday 15 August '09
At one point of time in his career, Govinda Ahuja sported a pajama with the nara trailing him like a faithful puppy, dry-humped an assortment of heroines...Thursday
13 August '09A rainbow-coloured belt is not something your average Joe will be comfortable sporting, but Sabina, the co-owner of India’s first Lesbian Gay Bisexuality Transgender Azaad Bazaar, contradicts the notion.Wednesday
12 August '09There is a lot in common between the bustling neighbourhood of PR Hills in Kohima (Nagaland) and Park Street. Like Park Street is to Kolkata, PR Hills too is the social hub of the hill town.Saturday
8 August '09There is a metatextual moment in Michael Mann’s epically mounted cop and robber drama, Public Enemies.Friday
7 August '09A nightclub crammed with bodies, drenched in sweat moving to the pounding beat of congas. Thanks to a generation of Hollywood dance films, that’s how we have come to perceive Salsa.Thursday
6 August '09Apart from their celebrated reputation as ambassadors of Bengali cinema, there is one more thing that directors Rituparno Ghosh and Buddhadeb Dasgupta share— the heartbreaking ordeal of seeing their completed films lie in cans.Saturday
1 August '09There is a serendipitous combination between music and the moving image that make moments unforgettable, Imtiaz Ali seems to have an inherent understanding of that connection.Thursday
30 July '09In ‘Love Aaj Kal’, Pritam has just delivered another hit album for Imtiaz Ali. While his fans jive away to music.Thursday
30 July '09In Love Aaj Kal, Pritam has just delivered another hit album for Imtiaz Ali. While his fans jive away to his spiffy rework of the Hemant Kumar classic Tan dole (Nagin), he himself is trying to convince the Kolkata media that he is not all about Punjabi funk.Monday
27 July '09The first hour of Suman Ghosh’s Dwando sweeps past in a flurry of Fabindia curtains, designer stoles and tissue sarees.Saturday
25 July '09It’s quite endearing how these Hollywood family dramas take it upon themselves to educate us. The Night at the Museum series for instance, imparts lessons on courage...Friday
24 July '09Like most noteworthy Bollywood success stories of recent times, this too began in Delhi.Saturday
18 July '09It’s astonishing how JK Rowling’s limber voice manages to move effortlessly between Ron’s adolescent sarcasm and Harry’s growing solemnity in David Yates’ interpretation of Harry Potter...Friday
17 July '09For some Potterphiles (a Harry Potter fanatic) the party was over for them exactly two years ago when the last installment of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was published.Wednesday
15 July '09You need to meet Sahana Goswami to realize that the celebrity culture of Bollywood is not what it used to be.Saturday
11 July '09Megan Fox is not a person but a state of mind. She ministers heterosexual male fantasies like a reigning deity and makes drooling adolescents out of the best of men.Friday
10 July '09About a month ago, Anindya Hajra of the city-based LGBT group Pratyay decided to throw a party to celebrate the successful conclusion of, Dialogues...Wednesday
8 July '09In literature, Bengali immigrants and their offsprings continue the path of assimilation that the likes of Jhumpa Lahiri describe in their works, the Interpreter of Maladies being one of them.Thursday
2 July '09Ever so often, we see upheavals that change social orders. Power dynamics are reworked, social reforms are put in place and a new, untainted society comes into being.Saturday
27 June '09John Abraham and Katrina Kaif are beautiful people. Which is why when bad things happen to them, you react with the same visceral horror that makes you gasp when a flower is trampled or beautiful vase is broken.Friday
26 June '09Some cities are lucky enough to be saved by the sea, unfortunately the vastness of an ocean evades Kolkata . Instead its lifeline is a river ...Thursday
25 June '09The waxing and waning of a city’s fortune is reflected in its restaurants. Well, almost. In the 1960s when Kolkata was thefinancial hub of India, Park Street, they say, was a fairyland.Saturday
20 June '09Thank god for Christopher Nolan. Had it not been for him and his layered interpretation of the caped crusader Batman...Sunday
21 June '09With one play, Tin Can, a young theatre group in Kolkata, smashed all the rules of the game. Looking back at their journey and at the people who have joined the city’s English theatre movement
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