The Cannes Film Festival, the coveted saga of star-studded, glitzy red-carpet premieres, is the ultimate beacon of cinematic brilliance. This is the first stoppage for all filmmakers, for at the iconic global hub of Croisette, dreams come alive and films find their voice. The movie scoring the Grand Prix or Palme d’Or has the paramount […]
Folks, it’s that time of the year again! The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival! All across the world, true-blue cinephiles and filmmakers flock to the French Riviera for days of screenings, meetings, and some networking with the film folks across the world. For every cinelover, Cannes is the holy grail of cinema! And […]
Once in a while, a movie comes out, jolting us out of our slumber of oblivion and drawing our senses to the things that really matter. The year 2007 was a landmark for Bollywood for it had releases as ‘Welcome’, ‘Bhool Bhulaiyya’, the infamous ‘Om Shanti Om’ vs ‘Saawariya’ with its starry debuts, ‘Chak De […]
Do you remember Dev Anand smashing it in his classic thriller, ‘Jewel Thief’? With daredevil robberies, doppelgangers, mistaken identity, a slew of femme fatales in Vyjayanthimala, Helen, Faryal, Anju Mahendru, and Tanuja, topped with a twist that holds as amazing as it did more than 50 years back—this was the essential popcorn suspense thriller. While […]
Movies about movies have to be the most special of all genres for cinephiles. And when we think of this domain, we can’t help but count the works of the moviemaking business’s biggest fan, Quentin Tarantino, who has redefined the genre himself with his masterful creations, including his self-proclaimed “dazzling love letter to the movies” […]
Darya bhi main, darakht bhi main … Jhelum bhi main, chinar bhi main … dair bhi hoon, haram bhi hoon … Shia bhi hoon, Sunni bhi hoon, main hoon pandit … main tha, main hoon aur main hi rahoonga. These words from the movie Haider perfectly sum up this lost star’s mark in the cine-world. […]
Do you too feel that with each passing day, we are rapidly nearing a far-fetched dystopian future? That the world around us is sliding and slipping further and further away from the truth that we knew was our reality? It’s precisely what you feel every time you give ‘Black Mirror’ a watch. And the latest […]
Manoj Kumar, a superstar, compelling actor, and passionate filmmaker who created his own brand of fervour and nationalism, left for his heavenly abode earlier this month in Mumbai at the age of 87. He suffered a heart attack along with age-related complications. His last on-screen appearance was in “Maidan-E-Jung” (1995). Hai Preet Jaha Ki Reet […]
“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” These are the words of author Joanna Maciejewska that have begun to haunt us much sooner than expected. You only […]
Can you imagine your 13-year-old child taking another child’s life? All at the hands of a dazzling mobile screen? Gone are the days when growing up with the likes of Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, and R.L Stines would be one of the greatest joys of the most magical, most colorful phases of one’s life. But […]
