The Man Who Lived for the Story

ARTHUR J PAISOctober 22, 1949 - January 8, 2016. IMAGE: Arthur J Pais, Editor, India Abroad and Rediff.com, on a trip to Russia. Photograph: Mabel E Pais   Even though I knew him for nearly......

The uncommon creator of that Common Man

Eminent cartoonist R K Laxman has died at a Pune hospital at the age of 94. Back in 1997, we had carried an excerpt from Past Forward, an autobiographical book which carried anecdotes of eminent......

The uncommon creator of that Common Man

Eminent cartoonist R K Laxman has died at a Pune hospital at the age of 94. Back in 1997, we had carried an excerpt from Past Forward, an autobiographical book which carried anecdotes of eminent......

Reminiscences from 'that bloody Wednesday'

A year after the 26/11 carnage, girls at the YWCA hostel in Colaba are still hounded by the horrifying memories of three sleepless nights when terror unfolded barely a few meters away in their......

3D screens are gaining popularity

Around five months earlier, Shrikanth Ghanekar, a city-based wholesale textile exporter, watched a 3D film for the first time. The film, Haunted, was being screened at Regal Cinema in Mumbai, and......

Why Mumbai's Chor Bazar is buzzing

Mumbai's Chor Bazaar is at its busiest. . . everybody wants a piece of the action on its narrow grimy alleys. Blame it on the universal dismissal of minimalist decor or the laws of supply and......

Cinema halls going digital!

Filmmaker George Lucas is a Hollywood visionary. He was the first to make use of computers in film-making and special effects in "Star Wars" and was the first to shoot motion pictures digitally......

Kalank review: You won't be able to look away. But...

... you won't feel anything either, feels Sukanya Verma. What makes the great costume dramas of Hindi cinema so awe-inspiring is their ability to transfix and transport the viewer into......

Can Mumbai's landmark theatres survive?

'If we keep losing such institutions, we will soon become a city and culture of short-term memory.''Nothing to remind us of the years gone by and eventually with nothing to remember.'Ranjita......

Lesbian love in the movies

Bollywood has dealt with same sex relationships before, but homophobia runs deep. Depiction of homosexuality in Bollywood has a long way to go. Between caricatures mined for cheap laughs or......

Govinda: Kader Khan was a father figure to me

'We cannot express the sorrow in words.' Photograph: Kind courtesy Govinda/Twitter Kader Khan passed away on December 31 due to a prolonged illness. He was 81. His friends and colleagues from the......