Mani Kaul — prophet of pure cinema
Gautam Kaul | Dec 25
Primarily, we must fault ourselves to identify our best artists, because the audiences are overfed with the dazzle of colour, fast action, songs and dances and the whole artificial environment painted on the cinema screen that we totally miss the grinding reality of our ordinary lives. It is left to artists like Mani Kaul to point their camera lens to this reality that we shun because it is so real.
Corona chokes Kannada cinema’s cheerful climb
S Viswanath | Nov 30
OTT platforms have in hind
sight ensured a new visual literacy to the audiences and it would be up to filmmakers from now on to match this new sensitivity and approach to cinema when they take to making films in future.
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Entertainment industry eyes a a phoenix, post pandemic
S Viswanath | Dec 31
A quiet cinematic revolution is in the offing as a sense of sanguinity sets in… a Phoenix act could be witnessed as the pashas of entertaining and engaging cinemas play the roulette of survival to create an annus mirabilis.
Sharmila Tagore — a journey trapped between promises and possibilities
Darshana Goswami | Dec 08
In her heydays, Sharmila Tagore was a path breaker, a sensation maker and a constant stirrer of surprises… Had her brimming virtuosity been fully exploited, Bombay cinema of the sixties and seventies would have chronicled drastically different stories that would have been more enduring in art and appeal. For cinema in the sixties not only meant color images and exotic locations but also a confluence of many new waves and an emergence of a global culture with long lasting effects.
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Shyam Benegal — the affable auteur
Darshana Goswami | Dec 14
An ‘author’ without being authoritarian, Benegal starkly contradicts the commonly perceived image of directors; that they are inseparable from their inherent authorship even while they are not all the time conscious of it.
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