FICCI Frames 18, VI: Master Class by master director R. Balki Ace ad film maker turned ace feature film director, R. Balki, chatted with senior TV journalist Anuradha Sengupta in a Master Class on...

FICCI-FRAMES 18, V: Keynote address of Mr. Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom 18 After Sunday evening’s inaugural, where Ms. Smriti Irani, India’s Federal (Union) Minister for Information and...

Shashi Kapoors don’t die: Part II The second and concluding part of a personal tribute to the great man. It has not come soon, as you might have expected. My apologies. Too much was happening. But...

Red Sparrow, Review: Spread-eagled Think of an American film that is 158 minutes long--probably 150 minutes in a country like India, which has a reasonably strict censorship regime—and then read the...

Ice, Review: Life v/s ice, too much too late Melancholia guaranteed, but so is good cinema. Ice is a 15-minute Estonian film that has been shown at 28 film festivals so far (correction: 35; update...

MIFF 2018, XIII: Ivan Leonodovich Maximov: Bizarre, darkly humorous Ivan Maximov (sometimes spelt Maksimov), is a Producer, Screenwriter, Artist, Animator and Teacher from Russia. Maximov was born...

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Review: Rape, murder and other black grey comedy Outdoor advertising is no longer so called. The 21st century buzz-word is ‘Out-of-Home medium’, OOH. There...

FICCI FRAMES IV: Four burning issues FICCI FRAMES will be addressing some burning issues during its 2018 edition. Dour key areas have been identified in its press release. 1. Dwindling box office...

Black Panther, Review: Pantherium Vibranium Compendium You first heard the name in 2010’s Iron Man 2. It was mentioned in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, but Wakanda became an entity to reckon with...