'I don't see what the fuss was about.'
No author in the Malayalam literary canon has influenced and profoundly changed the way normal people interact with each other than the ever-relevant, eclectic yet elusive body of work left behind by MT Vasudevan Nair, notes Arjun Menon.
A docu-feature on the life of Ingmar Bergman is going through its post production in Mumbai headed by Resul Pookutty.
People turn a corner and overhear secrets, men change stripes so as to acquire shades of villainy most convenient to advancing the plot, secondary characters confess to past sins just so that the leading women are absolved of all responsibility, notes Sreehari Nair.
'I never got respect as an actress.' 'But when I became a director and worked with actresses like Cate Blanchett and Jessica Chastain, I felt such pride of being an actress.'
'Thank you to the Cannes Film Festival for having our film here. Please don't wait 30 years to have another Indian film.'
If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair.
Aseem Chhabra presents his list of 100 best (and must watch) films -- many classics, some relatively new and several personal favourites.
The former 007 returns as the queer detective Benoit Blanc in Netflix's Knives Out.
Konkona Sen Sharma's short Mirror in Lust Stories 2 is a rare thing: A feminist film that is also very, very funny, states Sreehari Nair.
Jennifer Aniston returns to her news anchor duties, Akshay Kumar saves the day and 456 South Koreans fight to the finish in a bloody game of survival. Sukanya Verma suggests everything you can catch on OTT this week.
Indian filmmaker Dheeraj Akolkar talks about his documentary Liv & Ingmar.
Bahraini footballer Hakeem Al Araibi, who fled Bahrain in 2014 and was later granted asylum in Australia, was arrested in Bangkok in November on an Interpol notice issued at Bahrain's request.
A promising premise, except it's a poorly planned trip that goes nowhere and infuriates with its inadequacies.
A survey conducted by a film rental company has coem up with the latest list.
The prolific actor turns 62 today.
'One often assumes that after being in a marriage for a while, one knows their partner really well.' 'But do we really know what they want?' 'What they need? What they seek.'
Your weekly shot of inspiration from super achievers.
A Dutch documentary maker travels around India to find out the connection between breathing and orgasms, how to croon sexy encouragement in her lover's ear and a lot more.
A Dutch documentary maker travels around India and the world to find out the connection between breathing and orgasms, how to croon sexy encouragement in her lover's ear and a lot more.
Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.
Here's a look at five such clumsy lip services which left the viewer tongue-tied for all the wrong reasons.
Cinematographer Mazhar Kamra talks about his directorial debut.
Despite the smaller scale of the event, the mood at the ceremony was cheerful, notes Aseem Chhabra.
Antonioni embraced the abstract and created a narrative out of expressive, yet ambigious visuals. Everything was visual for him.
'Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga is a step backward for the portrayal of female camaraderie in our movies,' argues Sreehari Nair.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali talks about his film.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
Rinki Roy Bhattacharya pays tribute to her aunt Sonali Dasgupta, who eloped with filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in 1956, and then made a life in Europe.
There's nothing wrong in Vidya Balan's performance. There's just nothing new about it, feels Sukanya Verma.
The suave actor of the world, sometimes called the last of the Mohicans and familiar to students of cinema anywhere in the globe, acted in 14 Ray films and over 300 others, gracefully transitioning into commercial cinema in a variety of roles.
Indian films, and Raj Kapoor in particular, have a special place in Iranian cinephilia or cinemadoosti, Ranjita Ganesan discovers on a visit to Iran.
'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.
This is an alternate list of 10 screen roles that saw Soumitra Chatterjee, a paragon of gentility, venture beyond his comfort zone and deliver masterclasses of subtlety and depth, lists Saibal Chatterjee.
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