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What a hit film can teach us about saving our hill stations
March 31, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
What impact do movies like ‘Manjummel Boys’ (MB)–the recent Malayalam blockbuster about friendship in the face of life-threatening adversity–have on hill stations like Kodaikanal? According to recent reports, the fallout has been a big uptick…
March 31, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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Why superheroes stride the Earth’s screens: Secret history of cinematic juggernaut Marvel Studios
December 2, 2023, 8:18 AM IST
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales and Gavin Edwards tells the story of the cinematic franchise that has conquered Hollywood and the world’s imagination for the last 15 years. It…
December 2, 2023, 8:18 AM IST
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‘Dasham Avatar’: A cinematic marvel hindered by an abrupt conclusion
November 23, 2023, 7:24 PM IST
Srijit Mukherji’s “Dasham Avatar” embarks on a daring journey, threading the gruesome tapestry of a serial killer’s reign of terror through the vibrant streets of Kolkata. Despite its compelling cinematography that paints a vivid and…
November 23, 2023, 7:24 PM IST
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Women power in cinema: A deeper look at “The Exorcist: Believer” (2023)
October 10, 2023, 7:55 PM IST
The world of cinema has evolved significantly over the years, and with it, the portrayal of women on the big screen. Gone are the days when women were confined to passive, one-dimensional roles in film….
October 10, 2023, 7:55 PM IST
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The return of art activism
October 9, 2023, 4:29 PM IST
The art scene in India has always used its power to show a mirror to society or the ruling dispensation, whenever people have been wronged by a powerful establishment. Our visual artists collectively protested against…
October 9, 2023, 4:29 PM IST
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Barbie beats Putin: Why cultural censorship doesn’t work anymore
October 7, 2023, 8:47 AM IST
Where there is an audience, there is a way. Western sanctions have denied Russians access to Hollywood’s hits, and Putin’s regime wants Russians to partake of “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values”, whatever that means….
October 7, 2023, 8:47 AM IST
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Re-tellings of epics trivialising cultural icons
July 29, 2023, 7:24 PM IST
The recent debate on the movie Aadipurush brings to mind the genre of Indian English literature based on stories from our revered epics Ramayana and Mahabharata as also from the Puranas. It should be a…
July 29, 2023, 7:24 PM IST
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Saffronart’s Souza sale this December
December 8, 2022, 10:23 AM IST
Barbara Zinkat’s Collection of Francis Newton Souza drawings goes under the hammer this Yuletide season (17th December ) at Saffronart in Mumbai and it has a bevy of beauties in drawings. Headsmen and women and…
December 8, 2022, 10:23 AM IST
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The other side of paradise: Srinagar has got its first multiplex. But history shows, cinema in Kashmir was always more complex
October 1, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
For decades, Srinagar’s cinemas were dead, remembered only in the laments of a lost yesterday. Now, a silver jubilee of years since the first multiplex arrived in Delhi in 1997, Kashmir’s city of beauty and anguish…
October 1, 2022, 2:05 AM IST
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Triumph of our storytellers: Union I&B minister underlines the significance of India being the Country of Honour at Cannes
May 16, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
The silent shores of the French Riviera are all set to host the 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. As the focus country at the Opening Night of ‘Marché du Film’ this year, India…
May 16, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
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Very male, with extra gloss: Why southern Indian cinema has acquired a national profile, and is making so much money
May 14, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
Rocky, the protagonist of the new Kannada film K.G.F: Chapter 2, is described by admirers as a storm, a deluge and god. He, however, introduces himself in one scene as the “CEO of India”. At…
May 14, 2022, 2:25 AM IST
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Individual Purpose
August 21, 2020, 11:19 PM IST
By NAINA DHINGRA ET AL Individual purpose can be thought of as an overarching sense of what matters in our lives, and we experience purposefulness when we strive or work toward something personally meaningful or…
August 21, 2020, 11:19 PM IST
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The Year Ruskin Bond Went Away
August 17, 2020, 2:41 PM IST
The pandemic and lockdowns necessitating work-from-home has brought us some benefits along with setbacks. One of the benefits is that we have more time available to us that would have otherwise gotten used up in…
August 17, 2020, 2:41 PM IST
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Remembering comic actor Jagdeep, in songs
July 9, 2020, 11:31 AM IST
Comic actor Jagdeep is remembered for his hilarious turns in films such as Sholay, Roti, Ek Baar Kaho and many others. Not many know that he started out as a child actor and also acted…
July 9, 2020, 11:31 AM IST
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Retired, But Funny, Sensitive And Sensible, Too
June 8, 2020, 3:03 PM IST
Baapjanma, and AB ani CD – I had the opportunity to view these two Marathi movies with English subtitles on Amazon prime recently, on two different days, thanks to the house arrest brought on by…
June 8, 2020, 3:03 PM IST
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The most beautiful novel on eternal love was by a writer who died in May 2001
May 23, 2020, 9:39 AM IST
When we talk of the death pf love, we remember the 1997 movie “Titanic” and Celine Dion singing “My heart will go on”. However, some 51 years before the release of “Titanic”, R K Narayan’s…
May 23, 2020, 9:39 AM IST
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Remembering Rishi Kapoor
May 4, 2020, 4:00 AM IST
What a week for cinema. To lose two stalwarts on consecutive days at a time when the world is anyway a dark and hostile place feels like an overengineered tragedy. Two very different kinds of…
May 4, 2020, 4:00 AM IST
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The exceptional in art that became the inevitable in Irrfan Khan
May 3, 2020, 9:27 AM IST
Why is the departure of Irrfan Khan impossible to accept for his fans all around the world, including myself? Everyone knew he had fought cancer with as much resilience as for his very special place…
May 3, 2020, 9:27 AM IST
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Bollywood staggers under a one-two punch
May 3, 2020, 1:00 AM IST
Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan leave behind an indelible imprint on cinema As the pandemic’s cortege of fear and trauma continues, the low point for lovers of Indian cinema came this week when two greats…
May 3, 2020, 1:00 AM IST
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Lockdown appeal of … Extraction
April 29, 2020, 8:28 AM IST
Proman dao. So speaks the Chris Hemsworth character Tyler Rake in the new Netflix film Extraction, which has been trending at no 1 in India. It is a question of taste whether this line is…
April 29, 2020, 8:28 AM IST
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