100 Movies
This book-length project was published in The Indian Express, hoping to throw fresh light and perspective on 100 Hindi movies
Led by Shyam Benegal, Mani Kaul, Govind Nihalani and Saeed Mirza, Hindi parallel cinema advocated uncompromising realism. Its influence can still be …
It will do well for readers to remember that Bollywood’s forte is pulp thrillers with chartbuster music, unlike Hollywood that has over …
Alongside escapist fare, Bollywood has had a great parallel tradition of poetic realism, stories of social issues and locating heroism in ordinary …
Literature may or may not need films, but films undoubtedly need literature for its creative growth and sustenance but mostly, to access …
Inspired Madness: Comedy is a communal hug – a “jaadu ki jhappi” as Raju Hirani’s Munnabhai would have it – that Bollywood …
The gangster isn’t as fashionable as he used to be. (“Abhi politician sab se bada bhai hai,” says a character in Satya). …
Time, as they say, is a good judge of whether a work of art is great or not. Indeed, Mughal-E-Azam, Guide, Shree …
Some movies are more entertaining when you are drunk. Ask a connoisseur of camp, and he will confirm that trashy films can …
Most Bollywood films are “romances” unless otherwise specified. That self-explanatory disclaimer says everything that you need to know about Hindi films
90s, they say, was lousy. Just when all hopes were lost, thanks to the emergence of a new breed of indie players, …