Tag Archives: Shabana Azmi

Aparna Sen’s Sonata is about three, middle-aged women, two of who share the same, posh flat in Mumbai while the third one, the flighty journalist lives elsewhere but flits in and out of their flat and their lives every now and then. Sen is a master in expressing female bonding in the language of cinema and she breaks every rule in the cinema book...

Om Puri passed away on 6 January 2017 after four decades of acting. One of the pioneer faces of the Indian ‘parallel’ cinema movement of the 70s and 80s, Om Puri later on shifted to international cinema and remained a forceful actor till his last. A Silhouette tribute.

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 enough light behind to illuminate the screen even three decades later.

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 role he played in Indian cinema and how his movies and songs have touched millions of hearts.

Literature and cinema have had a close relationship for decades, perhaps since the very inception of the cinematic medium. Several films that have been path-breakers in cinema have drawn their story ideas from literature. While some have kept true to the original literary work, some others have adapted the storyline to a different context while keeping...

I believe, the joy derived from the strong sense of commitment is the main factor that binds the two apparently different persons together. Therefore, as I still go on repeatedly watching 15 Park Avenue, the popular notion as well as the scientific definition of Schizophrenia is gradually becoming blurred to me. Slowly I start believing that...