Hungry for more
Jaideep Ahlawat who impressed the audience with his depiction of a negative character in the film “Khatta Meetha”, has gone from strength to strength. The Film and Television Institute of India gra...
View ArticleAaj Ki Taaza Khabar (1973)
The year 1973 was a watershed for Hindi films. It saw the release of Raj Kapoor’s “Bobby” starring the fresh romantic pair of Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, a sort of comeback for the showman aft...
View ArticleHer side of story
K.S. Rajendran’s Hindi adaptation of “The Mahabharata Of Women” concentrates more on form, less on the anguished cry of women for revenge.
View ArticleSome narratives need a smaller canvas
Arpana Caur returns to the centrestage after more than a decade with an exhibition of rare paper works and etchings.
View ArticleA faun’s encounter…
Zfin Malta Dance Ensemble, the national dance company of Malta, gave a scintillating performance in the Capital recently.
View ArticleGhazals from the land of Tagore
Santa Kundu has defied convention to be a ghazal singer of note.
View ArticleFrom sidelines to spotlight
Vocalist Kalpana Zokarkar, who performed in the Capital this week, shows the ability to do justice to her rich musical background.
View ArticleThe past master!
After making waves with “Celluloid Man”, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur is back with “The Immortals”, capturing 100 years of Indian cinema through objects and images of legendary figures.
View ArticlePriyanka Chopra's next big test
Actor-singer Priyanka Chopra, Monica Dogra of Shaa’ir and Func fame and three other Indian artists have been nominated by VH1 at the 2015 Europe Music Awards under the Best India Act category, whi...
View ArticleElton John gets punk’d
Legendary musician Elton John’s phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned out to be a hoax by two TV presenters. The 68-year-old singer thought he had chatted about gay rights wi...
View ArticleKochi boy’s band to open for Bon Jovi
Carl Frenais will sing at the du Arena in Abu Dhabi on October 1.
View ArticleA place called Pan Bazaar
As soon as I landed in Guwahati, the city I had never set foot in before, the friend, whom I had never met before, told me, “Tell the driver to bring you to Pan Bazaar; I am waiting for you...
View ArticleKatti Batti: Cut the crap, please!
After a series of well- written scripts, it is the film that will test the star power of Kangana.
View ArticlePutting the who in whodunit: Remembering Agatha Christie
On Agatha Christie’s 125th birth anniversary, Apoorva Sripathi makes a case for the sometimes underrated but always intelligent crime writer
View ArticleBanking on melody
Vishal-Aditya has come out with an independent musical effort titled ‘Unakagavay’
View ArticleVishal’s next titled Kathakali
Vishal is currently working on a film with director Pandiraj. This project has been titled Kathakali, it was revealed recently. Catherine Tresa, who was seen in Karthi’s Madras...
View ArticleMeet Kamal Haasan’s fan-turned-filmmaker
The director says that April 17, the day Kamal called him, was the best day of his life.
View ArticleCourier boy Kalyan: A good plot, but…
Courier Boy Kalyan has a run time of less than two hours and the plot has all the necessary elements that could make for an edge-of-the-seat thriller. Any film that veers off the formulaic...
View ArticleTheir journey so far
Aamir Raza Husain and his wife Virat talk about their relationship, with theatre and each other
View ArticleMayuri: Aesthetics over the scares
The compelling technique of a film unfolding within a film, i.e. the ‘meta’ dimension to a story, is something that the younger crop of directors has liberally used as a tool to bring about parall...
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