Dunki: Shades of genius Geniuses are not born every day. Not everybody is a genius. Geniuses are not perfect. Geniuses can make mistakes. Sometimes, they go wrong. Not all the time. Sometimes. And...

Sampat Singh Rathore and his Veda Venues: Spaces to build communities of film and theatre talent He could easily get into acting, given the good looks and a fit physique, coupled with a Hindi...

Rise of the Fallen-Book I, By Abhishek Krishnan: Man+Bhagwaan=Manwaan Man is man and God is God, and never the twain shall meet! Wrong. Man and God (called Bhagwaan, usually spelt Bhagwan) fuse into...

RSIFF: A Colourful Ocean of remarkable films at the Red Sea A film festival named after the Red Sea? Where is the Red Sea? Let me see…it touches Eritrea, Djibouti, Egypt and Jeddah. A film festival...

Red Sea International Film Festival, 2023: A royal pilgrimage for film-buffs On the registration form, there was question, ‘Will you be going to the Medina pilgrimage?’ I wasn’t, so I typed, “No”....

MAMI’s Mumbai Film Festival: The chosen ones, the winning ones It must have been January 1995. A group of film-makers and film-buffs were talking about Mumbai having its own film festival, since the...

Jagran Film Festival awakens us to some great cinema Back after a three-year hiatus, prompted by the Coronavirus Covid 19, Jagran Film Festival (JFF) stuck to its base in Mumbai, the Cinépolis...

Mujib-The Making of a Nation, Review: How to fit three decades in three hours Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rehman, the tall, towering personality who was the single most important leader of East Pakistan, and...

Hara Vahi Jo Lada Nahi (only he who did not fight loses) is the tagline on the book, 12th Fail, written in Hindi by Anurag Pathak and translated into English by Gautam Choubey and Lalit Kumar. For...

IPTA’s Inter Collegiate Drama Competition scores 50, marches on Was it the first or was it the second? Was it 1972 or 1973? My introduction to the annual competition is nevertheless at least 49...