Tree Of Life – We live in deeds and meditate in grief

She used to be a teacher in an ICSE board school. But her kids were sent to another school where most Officers’ kids used to go. Her husband was a Chartered Accountant, and as most bongs like to flash their CA degree, he was no different. As kids, we always thought snob quotient was just [...]

VOTD : Shlok Sharma’s Tubelight Ka Chand

Shlok Sharma’s short film Tubelight Ka Chand has been doing the festival rounds since sometime and winning accolades too. The film is finally online. Do check it out. It seems there is some problem with the upload quality though because the colours look much better if you see it on screen. A delightful film about [...]

Kshay OST Preview – Listen in

If you follow this blog regularly, you must have read a post on the indie film Kshay. If you haven’t, do click here to check out its interesting trailer and synopsis. We have now been offered a preview of the soundtrack of the film. We are embedding two tracks here. Do check it out. We [...]

2 Indian films & Mani Kaul tribute at 68th Venice Film Festival

Venice Film Festival has announced its line-up for this year. The festival will take place from August 31-September 10, 2011. Two Indian films have been selected for the Orizzonti section of the festival, which is presented as an exploration of the modes of contemporary cinema. According to official release, in open dialogue with the films of [...]

Movie Recco : Richard Ayoade’s SUBMARINE because it’s all about being ATAVISTIC

Don’t worry if you are not sure what exactly is the meaning of ATAVISTIC. Just read the post and then watch the film. Submarine is a small British film that none of us had heard about. And then came the first trailer (scroll down) of the film. Whatever they say about making the first impression, [...]

Enlighten Film Society’s Naya Cinema Festival – All the details

Enlighten Film Society is organising Naya Cinema Fest this month. The idea is to celebrate the filmmakers whose early footsteps marked their foray into the niche circle of path-breakers of Indian Cinema. According to official release, The Naya Cinema Festival focuses on first and second films by Indian film directors that contrast with the works [...]

13th Mumbai Film Festival – Call For Entries

Mumbai Film Festival (October 13-20th, 2011), organized by MAMI is a Reliance Big Entertainment Ltd. (RBEL) initiative  and it showcases the best of contemporary world cinema, Indian cinema and feature length documentaries. The Festival is a highly regarded and anticipated event in Mumbai’s cultural calendar and last year it managed to screen some of the best [...]

Gods Of Cinema : Teaser Trailer of Wong Kar-Wai’s The Grandmasters

The wait is over. The Baap is here to kick all the ass! It stars Tony Leung and Zhang Ziyi. The Grandmasters is the biopic of Yip Man, the first martial artist to teach Wing Chun, the man who trained Bruce Lee and others. Leung plays Yip Man in the film. Here it is..

First Look : Ashvin Kumar’s Inshallah, football (Trailer)

We are quite late on this one. Have been reading a lot about the film and have missed few screenings too. The good news is the film will again have a screening in Mumbai soon at the Naya Cinema Festival. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the trailer of the film.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara – Of men, moments and without any melodrama

And we continue with the bullet-point report again. Tweet after watching the film and then put all the tweets in one place. Here you go… – With Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Excel completes its trilogy of “Coming Of Age” films. And since it’s a given fact that nobody wants to put money for 15 year [...]