Tag Archives: parallel cinema

The Indian Parallel cinema has been an overtly used, vague term. There have been discussions and debates as to what constitute the definition and equally important where to start from. This tentative piece brings together...

Smita Patil, the book, is a detailed chronicle of the actresses' work. It is the sum total of the amazing roles essayed in an eventful career by an actress with star quality, whose incandescence though brief, left...

Farooq Shiekh was an actor par excellence. He played complex characters with such conviction that touched a cord with the audience. Today on his birth anniversary (25th March), we recall the significant...

"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."