With the best-selling RD Burman: The Man, The Music and the popular Gata Rahe Mera Dil - 50 Classic Hindi Film Songs under their belt, author-biographer...
Shyam – the screen idol of the forties with his irresistible charm, good looks, style and panache left behind a brief but redoubtable repertoire of films. Even 67 years...
Veteran film critic Shoma A Chatterji has more than 20 books to her credit in a career spanning more than 40 years. Famous for her tongue-in-cheek candid responses, Chatterji...
Renowned author and scholar of Indian cultural history, Pran Nevile is the author of the authoritative book KL Saigal - Immortal Singer and Superstar; K.L. Saigal...
Impressed by Utpal Dutt’s interpretation of Othello, the famous filmmaker Madhu Bose offered him the role of Indo-Anglian poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt. This was the beginning...
Abesh Das has written a Bengali book on Tapan Sinha’s oeuvre of unique cinema named Tapan Sinha – Sarbik Chalachchitra Bikhha. Silhouette editor Amitava...
In a candid conversation with Antara, of Silhouette Magazine, renowned film historian, musicologist and author Manek Premchand talks about his latest book Hitting...
Madan Mohan, the creator of immortal melodies and film ghazals, had a fun-loving, outgoing personal side as a gracious cook and host, a wrestling and racing enthusiast, a...
Aradhana, the film that catapulted Rajesh Khanna into mega stardom. Kashmir Ki Kali, the film that brought Bengal beauty Sharmila Tagore into the national...
"If we do not pour our resources into preserving what is left of our cinematic heritage and on planning for the preservation of the films we are creating now, we will have...
March 27, 2016 marks the birth centenary of Nabendu Ghosh, the legendary script and screenplay writer who quietly worked behind the scenes with some of the best known filmmakers...
Tanima Bhattacharya is an actress whose first film Saankal (Shackle) have got rave reviews at the different film festivals across the world. She is also the Director's Assistant...
Amartya Bhattacharyya is a young and independent film maker of India. All of Amartya's films, poems and other works are dark, mostly surreal, and psychoanalytic in nature....
Every film Vijay Anand handled was unique and unparalleled. A master craftsman of the art of cinema, Vijay Anand's films stand tall as shining examples of technique, story...
'She always knew that it would be challenging to sing under my direction. She was always prepared for that and all along she has been an example of perfection. In my career...
"Burman Sahab would reject his own tune. He would say, ‘Chhodo, this is not sounding good.’ Then he would create another tune and start. Producers and directors would...
'I don’t claim to give you any answers, I think, you have to find your own answers, but the film is trying to question certain facts, certain rituals, certain practices,...
You must sound unique and different, so adopt the song in a way as if it is your own and shape it, mould it, deliver it in your unique style. That is what will leave a lasting...
In a tribute to singer-composer Hemant Kumar, Silhouette Magazine presents excerpts from a rare and unpublished, exclusive interview of the legendary artiste by Peeyush Sharma,...
Shoma A Chatterjee interviews Suman Ghosh, director of Kadambari, a story inspired by the brief and tragic life story of Rabindranath Tagore’s sister-in-law Kadambari Devi....
I always had the bigger reality in mind and wanted to make a film on it, says Bikas Mishra debutante director of the award-winning film Chauranga in an interview...
We pay a humble tribute to the legendary filmmaker Tapan Sinha with the reproduction of an exclusive interview, one of the lengthiest interviews of the maestro, which was...
We pay a humble tribute to the legendary filmmaker Tapan Sinha with the reproduction of an exclusive interview, one of the lengthiest interviews of the maestro, which was...
We pay a humble tribute to the legendary filmmaker Tapan Sinha with the reproduction of an exclusive interview, one of the lengthiest interviews of the maestro, which was...
On the occasion of legendary filmmaker Tapan Sinha's 90th Birth Anniversary, we pay a humble tribute to the maestro with the reproduction of an exclusive interview, which...
Southwest (Sudoeste, 2012) is an unusual film on multiple grounds – it was a project which materialized after 13 years of its inception, the film uses...
Sahir Ludhianvi is probably the only songwriter in Hindi films whose poetry was accepted in its purest form. So great was his stature as an Urdu poet that he never had to...
Film historian and archivist SMM Ausaja, the author of Bollywood in Posters speaks to Learning and Creativity at length, discussing his long and arduous journey through the...
"It’s in a way interesting and in many ways sad that Bollywood has dominated every aspect of culture in this country in the last two decades especially."
L&C interviews Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury on her recent book “Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen- Bengali Cinema’s First Couple”.
Everything is in a state of making… eternally… nothing is ever complete… the same is true of the body and therefore, identity. It’s a continuous process.
This film is for everyone who had loved and lost and continued loving. In that sense, it’s not a story of two Legends. They are indeed timeless artists of the world. But...
"To select films, quality is the main thing. And when choosing we also try and give a 360 degree idea of India."
This is not a traditional interview in the sense normally available. It is sort of a tête-à-tête with the legendary thespian. The conscious rationale was to ask minimally...
