There are several moments in the Netflix documentary The Romantics where you soak in the magic of cinema. But all this narrative building and appropriation just leaves a very sour aftertaste
Music archivists are keeping alive the joy of listening to vintage Hindi film music through clubs and online sessions conducted on Meet and Zoom
The impact of Kalidasa's Abhijnan Shakuntalam on Indian cinema is nothing less than magical, with some of the greatest filmmakers and actors having paid an ode to romance holding the magical hands of Kalidasa
With the end of Dilip Kumar, one illustrious chapter of Hindi cinema comes to an end and you know what it means only if you have lived through his body of work and reimagine the times he lived in. It was magical, what he did. But one less discussed aspect of his work is how he normalised vulnerability
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