When we speak of the golden age of Indian cinema, this is what I imagine – A time when films were not merely commercial products but works of art, created by artists who treated cinema like their own children. Kaagaz Ke Phool stands as one of the purest examples of […]
Cinema
When Society Creates a Saint: Rethinking Guide
Today, in the wake of Dev Anand, I re-watched Guide, and it turned out to be a completely different experience. Earlier, when I watched it, it felt like just another old-school masterclass. But this time, something was different. I don’t know what exactly changed, but it felt like a weight […]
Meet Joe Black — A Review
Martin Brest’s 1998 film “Meet Joe Black” stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Claire Forlani and is more than just an imaginative romantic comedy; it is subtitled as “A Philosophical Inquiry into Life and Death”. The story is intriguing: a young man named Joe Black represents Death on Earth to […]
I Didn’t Know What to Feel
Tyeb Mehta, the Paintings That Distanced Me, and the Film That Brought Me Back The first time I saw a Tyeb Mehta painting, I was too young to know what I was looking at. It was at a virtual tour of an exhibition in Mumbai, some corporate gallery in a […]
Pankaj Tripathi’s Perfect Family: A Debut That’s Anything But Ordinary
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Anna Karenina, Tolstoy It’s in the quiet boredom of Holi after hours where we give in to our parents’ watch recommendations. So that’s exactly how I landed in this uncharted corner of youtube watching a show […]
Anurag Kashyap
Whenever I talk about directors who significantly changed the traditional Hindi cinema, Anurag Kashyap’s name always comes up. He isn’t a typical Bollywood director like others who focuses only on big stars, grand sets, and commercially successful formulas. Instead, he focuses more on the script of the story, the characters, […]