A newly independent nation’s dreams were finding form in the contours of cinema in the 1950s and early 1960s, prominently in the works of Mehboob Khan, Guru Dutt, B.R.Chopra, V.Shantaram and Raj Kapoor. The nation was brimming with positivity and hope; independence was being seen as a cure for every evil facing the nation. It... Continue Reading →

Mention Hrishikesh Mukherjee and it is obvious that we conjure up images of boistrous households, kurta-clad men and sari-clad women celebrating their middle-class lives on-screen and everyday images of, what was then, Bombay. But way back in his inchoate days as a director, Hrishida came up with a silent gem called Anuradha. In the year... Continue Reading →

It is a daunting task for a filmmaker to break into the big scene with a purely experimental work. But what if an established filmmaker tries to move off the beaten track? Dibakar Banerjee does just that with Love, Sex aur Dhokha. Having touched the lives of the urban middle-class in his previous films, the... Continue Reading →

I had watched Pakeezah in my school days. I loved the songs then but felt that the movie was too slow and went too deep into details . I was however impressed with the overall effect and it remained in my heart since then. Today, watching Pakeezah after many years, I fell in love with... Continue Reading →