Salim Arif’s Aap ki Soniya, starring Farroque Sheikh and Sonali Bendre, is currently making waves in the Delhi theatre circuit and has won aapluse abroad. Having explored the wounds of communal riots through the lens of Gulzar’s poetry in his Kharaashein, Arif looks back at the time he entered the theatre scene in the late... Continue Reading →
Classical music has been used quite often as a leitmotif in Indian cinema. But there were reasons why Dr. K.Vishwanath’s Sankarabharanam was a class apart. It was the year 1979. Classical music was down on the popularity charts. With an imitated hippie culture seeping in, pop and rock had become the new wave with few... Continue Reading →
There are many things in life that you appreciate and understand better over a period of time. What one made of a book or a movie in one’s school days need not be what he/she makes of it 10 years later. Godan was a book that the elders in my home often praised. But I... Continue Reading →
In the mid 1940s, a young lad had come to Bombay who, like many others, wanted to make it big in the film industry. When he got a chance to meet the legendary thespian Motilal he was asked “What brings you to Bombay?”. “The reason which brought you here sir, has also brought me” he... Continue Reading →
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