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Common man in times of terror (11 November 09:10) |
| By Latika Padgaonkar
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." Path-breaking American journalist Dorothy Thompson’s words glow on the closing image of the film Ma... |
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Brother vs Brother (29 October 01:14) |
| Latika Padgaonkar
More than 60 years after the founding of Israel, the enormously complex issue of the separation of state and religion continues to divide the country’s citizenry. Israel... |
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It is the story of a generation in Iran (29 October 01:13) |
| Nawaid Anjum
When you speak to the Iranian filmmaker Behnam Behzad Boroujeni, whose first feature film Tanha Do Bar Zendegui Mikonim (Before the Burial) was screened at the on-going Osianâ€... |
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Looking beyond the WWW (27 August 02:11) |
| Asha Sachdeva
Designyatra 2009 is around the corner. Into its 2009 edition, Kyoorius Designyatra purports to redefine visual communication in India. The cerebral conclave that draws top tal... |
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Of passion and competition (25 August 01:48) |
| Amrita Jayakumar and Ipsitaa Panigrahi
Have you ever thought of dance being treated as a sport? Have the awe-inspiring dance sequences felt like a far away dream? Dancers Dr Priti Gupta and... |
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Shah Rukh can! (20 August 01:40) |
| S Kumar
He is charismatic. He is adorable. He is intelligent. He is an actor, a producer, a team owner, a businessman and primarily an entertainer. Loved by millions of fans worldwide, he i... |
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Manila by day and night (17 August 11:30) |
| By Aruna Vasudev
If you want a new generation of filmmakers to emerge, start a film festival. That is the clear message transmitted by the Cinemalaya film festival in Manila. It has just he... |
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Cinemas of the South (02 August 06:30) |
| pfont size=2strongAruna Vasudevstrongfontp
pCines del Sur Cinemas of the South is what the magical city of Granada in southern Spain chose to call its film festival set up three years ago S... |
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Film projects a new N Korea (02 August 06:29) |
| pfont size=2strongLATIKA PADGAONKARstrongfontp
pIn a first of its kind documentary from North Korea €” one of the world€™s most isolated countries €” French director-producer NC Heiken open... |
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Cinema of West Asia: A past ever present (03 July 01:47) |
| Latika Padgaonkar
Almost inevitably, films from West Asia keep returning to their immediate, painful, oftentimes deadly past, a past that is playing out into a present where the word normal... |
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Cinema of West Asia A past ever present (03 July 01:47) |
| pfont size=2strongLatika Padgaonkarstrongfontp
pAlmost inevitably films from West Asia keep returning to their immediate painful oftentimes deadly past a past that is playing out into a pre... |
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The Power of the Short Film (12 February 11:11) |
| By Aruna Vasudev
Suddenly, documentary and short films are the order of the day. And Delhi is witnessing a wave of festivals dedicated to the works of short filmmakers of all hues and impre... |
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Abu Dhabi puts up lavish cine fare (24 November 11:33) |
| By Aruna Vasudev
Not to be outdone by Dubai, which started its international film festival some years ago, Abu Dhabi decided to launch its own festival from 2007. One word encapsulates the ... |
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Pandit’s Bombay Jazz takes a European trip (22 November 11:36) |
| By Pramita Bose
This desi Pied Piper promenading down the musical turnpike lures in countless listeners with his lilting tunes. But this time, he returns with his flute in hand from Holland... |
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Pandit€™s Bombay Jazz takes a European trip (22 November 11:36) |
| pfont size=2strongBy Pramita Bosestrongfontp
pThis desi Pied Piper promenading down the musical turnpike lures in countless listeners with his lilting tunes But this time he returns with hi... |
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Pandits Bombay Jazz takes a European trip (22 November 11:36) |
| By Pramita Bose
This desi Pied Piper promenading down the musical turnpike lures in countless listeners with his lilting tunes. But this time, he returns with his flute in hand from Holland... |
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Numerology rules Bollywood (13 August 10:51) |
| Nikhil Agarwal
TRUST SINGER-turned-actor Himesh Reshammiya to take things to unheard of lengths.
A firm believer in nu-merology, his latest film is called A Love Issshtory. Really. And ano... |
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Chetan Bhagat set for a hat-trick (30 July 11:15) |
| Pramita Bose
Chetan Bhagat is on the verge of scoring a cinematic hat-trick. His first two books, Five Point Someone (2004) and One Night @ The Call Centre (2005), successful by themselves,... |
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Let’s have Gandhi VS Munnabhai (23 July 10:52) |
| Ranjan Kamath
In the summer of 1995, a documentary commissioned by Channel Four, the UK, introduced me to Video Sewa, an initiative of the SEWA trade union founded by Ela Bhatt.
Inspired b... |
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Let€™s have Gandhi VS Munnabhai (23 July 10:52) |
| p class=c1strongRanjan Kamathstrongp
pIn the summer of 1995 a documentary commissioned by Channel Four the UK introduced me to Video Sewa an initiative of the SEWA trade union founded by El... |
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Lets have Gandhi VS Munnabhai (23 July 10:52) |
| Ranjan Kamath
In the summer of 1995, a documentary commissioned by Channel Four, the UK, introduced me to Video Sewa, an initiative of the SEWA trade union founded by Ela Bhatt.
Inspired b... |
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Corporates endanger Cinema (16 July 10:57) |
| K. HariharanÂ
The nomenclature "corporate" seems opposed to the concept of ‘independent’ cinema. Strangely, some of the better examples of independent cinema like Mithya or T... |
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Animation wins big (09 July 10:23) |
| Pramita Bose
Laadli, an animation film by the Kolkata-based Metaphor Studios, has won the United Nations Fund for Population Activities award for most insightful depiction of female infanti... |
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Let’s get reel (02 July 11:38) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Osian’s-Cinefan is all set to stir it up, again. Come July 10 and the spotlight shifts on cinema and it’s showtime for the cinebuffs. The tenth chapter of Osian’s-Cinefan... |
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Let€™s get reel (02 July 11:38) |
| pfont size=2strongNawaid Anjumstrongfontp
pOsian€™s-Cinefan is all set to stir it up again Come July 10 and the spotlight shifts on cinema and it€™s showtime for the cinebuffs The tenth cha... |
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Lets get reel (02 July 11:38) |
| Nawaid Anjum
Osian’s-Cinefan is all set to stir it up, again. Come July 10 and the spotlight shifts on cinema and it’s showtime for the cinebuffs. The tenth chapter of Osian’s-Cinefan... |
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Creativity finds freedom (02 July 11:37) |
| Sudeshna Ghosh
Independence" is in many ways the Holy Grail in the film business — something that every filmmaker strives for but can never quite attain.
To be independent in the fi... |
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The super age (25 June 11:28) |
| Nabamita Mitra
In our fast life, where there is no way to run and hide from the bad world, many of us at least once closed our eyes and prayed: "I'm not normally a praying man, but if ... |
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An art that will die hard (04 June 11:16) |
| Sudeshna Ghosh
There is an old saying that "copying is an art". And in India this art form is thriving in the form of movies. From yesteryear blockbusters like Sholay (copied from... |
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‘I dreamt I lived with Anne Frank in her secret annexe’ (17 May 10:45) |
| Dr S. Nambi
QUESTION: In my dream I saw that I was very young, living during the Holocaust days in Holland. Interestingly, Anne Frank was my best friend and we used to spend a lot of time t... |
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It will always be ‘books’, camera and action (03 March 10:10) |
| Focus | Sudeshna Ghosh
The American comedian and master of wit Groucho Marx had once said, "I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the ot... |
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City of Joy rejoices movie magic (28 February 12:00) |
| Meanwhile | Pramita Bose
Kolkata: Movies are the food of life for any film buff. Be it a full-length feature, a documentary, a short film or an animation, all that he or she needs is to sit... |
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Avant-garde films make a mark (17 February 10:08) |
| Meanwhile | Nabamita Mitra
Hyderabad: A few black and white photographs, some recipe books from the 1950s and 1960s, an unusually creative mind and a month’s time are enough for Pushpamal... |
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Rajat’s journey reaches a milestone with Mithya (06 February 10:07) |
| Focus | Nabamita Mitra
Hyderabad: It started with the madcap adventure of Raghu Romeo, evolved with the realistic Mixed Doubles and now turned into a dark tragedy encircling Mithya (A lie).... |
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Iffi turned focus back to cinema (05 December 10:21) |
| Focus | Pamela D’Mello
Panaji: With the curtains down on the 38th edition of Iffi and its fourth straight run in Goa, conceptual differences between the directorate of film festivals and ... |
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Biopic about Italian sound wizard lights up film fest (28 November 10:34) |
| Focus | Saibal Chatterjee
Panaji: The critically acclaimed Rosso Come Il Cielo (Red Like The Sky) may have taken a while to get into the International Film Festival of India programming, bu... |
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Debut film explores a marriage in turmoil (28 November 10:33) |
| Pramita Bose
Kolkata: Mumbai-based debutante director Sarthak Dasgupta's The Indian Butterfly brought the curtain down on the International Forum of New Cinema organised by Cine Central whi... |
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Guns fall silent, film crews plan return to Kashmir (05 November 10:30) |
| Focus | Yusuf Jameel
Srinagar: Before the separatist campaign burst into major violence about 18 years ago, Kashmir had for decades been Bollywood’s favourite shooting location. Regional ... |
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Film will bare Guru Dutt’s obsessive love, doomed life (29 October 10:22) |
| Focus | Sarju Kaul
London: Indian-born author and documentary filmmaker Nasreen Munni Kabir is working on a script for a film inspired by the life of legendary filmmaker Guru Dutt.
Kabir, ... |
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Bollywood masala turns Oriya films bitter (19 August 10:23) |
| CinemA | Rabindra Nath Choudhury
Oriya films reflected the State's rich and diverse culture and the people's ethos. But not any more. Oriya films are adopting the Bollywood formula but not ... |
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Pakistani films harsh truths (18 June 10:53) |
| Shagufta Kalim
Kolkata: Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, a documentary filmmaker from Pakistan, likes to travel the road not taken. And it has literally taken her to oil rich Saudi Arabia, war ravage... |
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Rossellini could not finish movie on Islam (18 June 10:53) |
| Rome: Roberto Rossellini, one of the leading lights of Italian Neorealist cinema and director of such gritty classics as Rome, Open City and Paisan, later in his career increasingly cast his... |
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Michil: Woman fights back (23 May 10:36) |
| Pramita Bose
Kolkata: Michil (The Procession), a 60-minute Bengali film, will be premiered on May 25 at Kolkata's Nandan auditorium. The maiden venture of Alliance & Co, it is the stor... |
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Wasim biopic tracks his life and troubles (07 May 11:30) |
| Pramita Bose
Kolkata: A 50-minute biopic on the artist Wasim Kapoor, tentatively titled Quest for Creations, is in the final stages of production and will be premiered later this year.
Dir... |
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Bollywood films get a Bhojpuri punch (02 January 04:33) |
| Amita Verma
Lucknow: A suave poet, Amitabh Bachchan, tells his lady love Raakhee, "Humka koi haq nahin ki hum apan mai-baap ka dukh dai ke apan khushiyon ka mahal banai. Tu shadi kar l... |
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Science of the Vedas (28 December 03:24) |
| P. Sridhar
Karimnagar: Ach-yut Vadoothker, 56, who is working as an environmental and chemical engineer in the United States, is on a mission to prove that ancient Indian thought was scient... |
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An evening in Chennai with ex-Khmer flautist (24 December 01:08) |
| Menaka Rao
Chennai: When he was nine, Arn Chorn Pond became a child soldier in the Khmer Rouge after several of his family of traditional artistes were killed. A flute player himself, he is... |
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