Tuesday 16 June '09
You may not have heard of Savaari, but the sociological import of this Kannada blockbuster is not to be taken lightly.Friday 12 June '09
A multitude has gathered behind him, yet he is a lone figure. In one of the most interesting photographs on display at the Nemai Ghosh photographic exhibition...Tuesday
9 June '09Any single individual who renders himself or herself available to the complex dealings of the marriage market, faces the question of veracity.Saturday
6 June '09His chest, peppered with grey hair, glistens as he roughly kisses her. She is abashed, voluptuous and responds to his body with a passivity that’s almost virginal...Saturday
30 May '09Deep in the heart of the Vatican, dark conspiracies are being hatched. Shrouded in whites and blacks, priests and cardinals nod knowingly at each other while the candlelight casts an eerie glow on their faces.Friday
29 May '09“The big questions in life are tough: Why are we here? Where are we from? Where are we going? But if people believe in (Expletives) like you, we’re never going to find the real answers to those questions.Wednesday
27 May '09Cheap suit, cigar dangling from the lips and a wad of other people’s money in their hand, fed on Hollywood band movies...Tuesday
26 May '09One of the interviewees in the video project, Are We Talking Straight?, was an English-speaking youth in his twenties.Saturday
23 May '09Either my five-years-old nephew is averse to animated films per se or the Dreamworks people have totally misread their target audience.Friday
22 May '09The crowd gathered at dusk on the sprawling parkomat in front of New Market...Tuesday
19 May '09Teenage angst, fodder for drama, poetry and irreverent literature. When the members of the city-based theatre group Tin Can decided to address this issue (in their play Video), they knew that they had a major task at hand.Thursday
14 May '09Kolkata boy Onir’s new film may have attracted a lot of attention because of its provocative subject— it deals with male sex workers— but that’s not its only USP.nWednesday
13 May '09They don’t fret; they aren’t confused and the grave responsibility of choosing the future leaders of the country doesn’t unsettle them.Tuesday
12 May '09The fetid, muddy waft from the Ganges—provocative but not offensive. The heady aroma of freshly fried ilish— something that every Kolkatans olfactory sense is attuned to.Saturday
9 May '09There are, essentially, two approaches to ethnic cuisine. One is the pleasure of familiarity— memory, associations. The other is newness.Sunday
10 May '09Sarnath Banerjee digs out a gallery of rogues from the files of Lalbazar Police Headquarters, in an exhibition in KolkataWednesday
6 May '09In the spring of 1993, all was well in the world of Byomkesh Bakshi. Rajit Kapur was making his mark on television as the new “definitive” Byomkesh in Basu Chatterjee’s extremely popular series.Monday
4 May '09Who was Harvey Milk? What was he all about? And why indeed does his life warrant a biopic? Director Gus Van Sant has answers to all these questions—Harvey Milk...Friday
1 May '09We may be the world’s largest film producing country. Our country may have earned some default Oscars too, but we sure haven’t managed to impress the selection committee of one of the most prestigious film festivals of the world.Thursday
30 April '09Defeated families, shrewish Southern belles and the searing heat of the Mississippi Delta—some of the most important elements of a typical Tennessee Williams play.Tuesday
28 April '09Bombay, Bollywood —two words that sum up the dreams of millions of youngsters who throng the tinsel town every year.Saturday
25 April '09Politics and dance competion don’t really go together, do they? Mr Jonathan from Australian mockmentary Razzle Dazzle doesn’t seem to think so.Saturday
25 April '09As most informed movie-goers would know, Stephen Daldry’s last directorial venture, The Hours, was an adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s seminal novel of the same name.Friday
24 April '09Way back in the 1980s, before economic liberalization and cable, Indian television was still about benign people leading benign lives in benign cities, towns and villages.Saturday
4 April '09It’s a question worth asking. What exactly went wrong with Nagesh Kukunoor? Here was a young filmmaker, who displayed commendable storytelling skills in his first few films.
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