What we need are soft borders and hard drinks, suggests the actor-director from Pakistan, contemplating all the friends he has made in India, thanks to one peace initiative or another.
A Hussain who does not bother about an audience is not the Hussain we know. And, for sure, Gaja Gamini is a bomb
Review of Gaja Gamini
A brick wall
Far from the madding crowd, the technology and the intellectual ferment of urban life, in a lonely flag-cabin of a far-flung and idyllic Bengal village, live two men who endlessly
Caravan a film by Eric Valli Cinemascop, 104min
In these days of cinematic Himalayan hype it is natural to be sceptical about yet another celluloid offering on the ´exotic´ Shangri
It was as a seven-year-old that film maker Goutam Ghose got a preview into what director Satyajit Ray was all about. And it moved him to tears. The young Ghose
The organisers had found themselves in a similar bind in 1998, after then prime minister Nawaz Sharif announced the controversial 'Shariat Bill' (Constitutional Amendment 15) which would have
Is there a particular measure with which a film jury determines the quality of films that they view? Most probably, in certain film festivals, there is. Festivals that have been
For long years, the rest of India and the Western world identified Bengali cinema with either the pain and poverty of Satyajit Ray's pathbreaking Pather Panchall or with
Once upon a time, Malayalam cinema played to the tunes of the incredible hero, the ever-green Prem Nazir, who never tired of wooing heroines, running around trees with damsels half
Years from now, when rny back is bent double with age, I shall tell my grandchildren that I once went to a concert by Lata Mangeshkar. What is more, I
