Tera Bayaan Ghalib – Ghalib Ki Bayaani, Jagjit-Gulzar ki Zubaani

One of my favourite albums of all time is Gulzar-Pancham. I bought the cassettes first and then the CDs. The 2-CD pack is compilation of songs written by Gulzar and composed by R D Burman. But what makes the album special is the introduction to every song by Gulzar. We all know that he can [...]

VOTD : Kabir Chowdhary’s Good Morning

Sometime back we had a put a post on Kabir Chowdhary’s indie film Good Morning. The entire film is online now. Click on the play button and enjoy! Synopsis: Good morning is a psychological drama that explores the obsessions and insecurities of a married man who is completely dedicated to his wife. His world is [...]

The love for “Midnight in Paris” is our own love for the past

The Oscar buzz is in full swing now. And it’s not surprising that with The Artist, Carnage, Moneyball and My Week With Marilyn in the theatres, it’s one of the best weekends at the movies. Here’s Fatema Kagalwala‘s recco for one more charming film – Woody Allen’s Midnight In Paris. Read On. And don’t miss [...]

Katha Centre for Film Studies’ Curatorial Project Film Festival – Screening details

Katha Centre for Film Studies : Curatorial Project Film Festival (Weekend Screenings from 18th Feb to 17th March) Curatorial Project Film Festival is a part of the workshops on Film Curatorial Practices organized by Katha Centre for Film Studies and supported by India Foundation for the Arts. – All film screenings are followed by discussions [...]

VOTD : Gulzar remembers Jagjit Singh – Ek Bauchhaar Tha Woh

Gulzar Pays tribute to legendary singer, Jagjit Singh, with a nazm that is included in the new album, Tera Bayaan Ghalib. The album features letters of Mirza Ghalib recited/enacted by Gulzar and Ghalib nazms in the voice of Jagjit Singh. एक बौछार था वो शख्स बिना बरसे किसी अब्र की सहमी सी नमी से जो [...]

Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu – Pappu paas ho gaya!

Early reviews in bollywood are unlike anything in the rest of the world – you can never trust them. And at a time of social networking, everything spreads like wild fire. So when i heard good things about Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu, the first person who was skeptical about it was film buff and [...]

Jameson Empire DISS Winners – Fight Club & Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Jameson Empire had announced a contest for shorts – remake any cult film in just 1 minute. It’s called DISS (Done In Sixty Seconds) and Anurag Kashyap was on the jury.  They have just announced the two films which will compete with films from across the world at the the Jameson Empire Award in London. [...]

First Look : Sumit Purohit’s indie feature 12073

“घर को ढूंढें पागल सा, मूर्ख दीवाना है जहाँ रुके वहीँ घर हो जावे, ठौर-ठिकाना है नाथ तुंग के कभी प्रयाग-ऐ-रूद्र होइयां अन्दर झाँका, बुद्ध होइयां” It all started with the idea to see what Canon 7D was capable of. I could have tested it in Mumbai but when you are from a place like [...]

Podcast : Dissecting box office with Shailesh Kapoor, CEO, Ormax Media

Box office is a difficult and quite a different kind of beast. And strangely, we have started hearing a lot about it in the last 2-3 years. Boasting numbers wasn’t the trend earlier. Now everyone is keen to flash their numbers – opening day, weekend, week, highest, highest per screen or any other category that [...]

First Look : Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Paan Singh Tomar (Trailer + Synopsis)

Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Paan Singh Tomar has been ready for quite sometime. And UTV has been sitting on it with no clue what to do with it. All kinds of reports were floating since a year or so. They sent it to few festivals abroad, intial reviews weren’t good, there was a plan to shelve it [...]