Hawa Badol – Expecting blooming friendship…

After a long while it feels great to occupy a cozy chair at one of those theaters in Kolkata and watch a Bengali feature film that will surely offer some food for thought. Oh! I forgot to mention that the second directorial venture of one of the most sensible cinematic professionals of Tollywood (Kolkata’s film …

A grey matter perspective!!

An old shot. This vision is a part and parcel of my city life and it certainly triggers some of the most unknown emotions of my life... However, Life still pours out all its love and care in the form of those drops and I get drenched every morning... The road that takes me to …

Boycott senseless and effing cinemas in India! The Society bleeds heavily…

India is a land of tradition and culture. It accommodates religions of so vivid theories and beliefs. That brings to my mind a thought that Indians do have a taste of art and literature. Religion, I believe is best described with art and culture. The religious books, doctrines, shrines, temples, mosques, churches, stories, fables, hymns, …

Barfi – Sept. 2012

Anurag Basu -- a filmmaker inherently gifted when it comes to visual imagery and metaphor does it again and the young RK does very strongly indeed with this Chaplin-tribute role, bestowing his character with heart every step of the way. To paraphrase the radio hoarding seen in nostalgia-tinted Darjeeling, Anurag Basu's Barfi, "sets the standard." …