During these trying times of the last year or so, music has been the coping mechanism for many of us. Has it been the same for you too? Absolutely! When I found myself in the (first) lockdown, I real...

Penning an introductory line summing up the accolades and achievements of Thodur Madabusi Krishna is a daunting task for his warranted aversion to classify and label one’s achievements, thereby ...

Given that the audience today is constantly bombarded with entertainment and has so much to choose from, did you ever think that Aspirants would catch on in the way it’s done? It’s very d...

Sir — The actor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, has rightly criticized celebrities for flaunting their vacations amidst a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic that has brought India to its knees. While...

Why have Diego Romero as DoP and what did he bring to the vision of the story? Diego and some of his friends met me in Madrid after watching a retrospective of my films at Madrid Intl Film Festival. ...

Amrita Chattopadhyay shot for her first Hindi film Anwar Ka Ajab Kissa (directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta) back in 2013, when she was still studying. In her own words, she was slightly “naive, clue...

Nawazuddin Siddiqui had always nurtured the dream of working with director Sudhir Mishra. That happened with Serious Men. Based on Manu Joseph’s novel of the same name, Serious Men focuses on Ay...

The first shot of Raat Akeli Hai is a thing of beauty. The headlights of a car pierce through the blinding darkness of a highway, even as a pulsating background score hints that something is afoot. Th...

I may be a writer of obscene stories, a clown, but I am also a husband and a father. — Saadat Hasan Manto Nandita Das’s biopic focuses on the two main aspects of Manto’s life — anti-establishm...

Netflix has officially green lit the hit series 'Sacred Games' for a second season. The thriller series, based on author Vikram Chandra's novel of the same name, features Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Saif ...