Of the greatest actors to emerge after the seventies, Sean Penn, Denzel Washington, Eric Roberts, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon and a few others, the most consistently daring and risk-taking remains […]
There have been countless films that are inspired by Francis Ford Copolla’s gangster saga ‘The Godfather’. The epic story of Vito and Micheal Corleone has always been a yardstick of […]
For his magnificent performance in ‘Cast Away’ (2000), Tom Hanks won the coveted New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor seeming to pave the way for a […]
It’s almost half way through the year. Amidst the pandemic and the lockdown, all of us, have somehow trying to live in this ‘new normal’ way of life. Lockdown caused […]
The great Satyajit Ray, while writing the review for Vittorio De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thief’ (1948), had once said – “For a popular medium, the best kind of inspiration should derive […]
More than a quarter-century has passed since Oliver Stone’s electrifying ‘Natural Born Killers’ first thundered onto movie screens for the first time, alighting a hurricane of controversy. By the nineties, […]
“Doing something great is overrated because then people expect that from you all the time. What they don’t realise, is you’re as screwed up as they are”. ~ Mare Sheehan, […]
Boxing, as a sport, has always been a sign of masculinity. Two men, sparring with each other using their fists, landing blows on the opponent while docking the punches, is […]
Okay, peeps, all 3 movies of the ‘Fear Street’ trilogy has been watched on Netflix and the verdict is out. If you’re into the campy, nineties slasher genre of movies […]
After a decade of foreshadowing of Marvel’s biggest baddie, after he snapped half of the universe into dust, when he finally crumbled into the same dust in the ‘Endgame’ (2019), […]
“Your ledger is dripping, it’s GUSHING red, and you think saving a man no more virtuous than yourself will change anything? This is the basest sentimentality. This is a child […]
So half of the year is gone. With the pandemic here to stay and most people not venturing out of their households, the production houses are going to stick to […]
“Mera dil bhi koi hindustaan nahin, jispe aap hukumat karein !!!” By the time I grew up, Dilip Kumar had already been dabbling in the character roles. I remember the […]
If all the worst forms of violence could be ranked, riots would have easily sat on top of it. History has been a mute witness to countless riots that have […]
Small town India, where everyone knows everyone. The inhabitants here love to poke their noses in the neighbourhood businesses. Here, life begins with the 7 am tea and ends with […]
“Bandar baat ka khela.. khele main hai jhamele bade.. Neend main hoe hazamat, jaage toh phir tote ude…” “Bandar-baat”, aka the story of two cats fighting for a cake and […]
Mistakes. If the life of a human being has to be summarised in one word, it would be – mistakes. Since biblical times, our actions or inactions are often labelled […]
So no one told you life was gonna be this way? If you go on clapping along with the next set of tunes, well, there you are – fan spotted! […]
In the year 2001, which now feels a lifetime ago, I had appeared for the IIT JEE entrance examination. Thanks to the inherent herd mentality, everyone in the study group […]
In today’s world, the whole of humanity is governed by the iron hands of technology. Everywhere we go, everything we do, we knowingly or unknowingly leave a digital footprint that […]
If you, like myself, hang around the internet, chances are that you have heard of this series. Now you may ask – “ We hear of every new release that is […]
