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Click here to access the review on Edit Room

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The new issue of Wide Screen is now online. Click here to access it.<!--Session data-->

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Click here to read my review of Love, Sex aur Dhokha<!--Session data-->

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Click here to read the article<!--Session data-->

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Click here to read my review of Lars Von Trier's Antichrist.<!--Session data-->

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Click here to read the review of The Year My Parents Went on Vacation.<!--Session data-->

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Click here to read the review of The Class (Entre Les Murs)<!--Session data-->

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Click here to access the article on Firaaq.<!--Session data-->

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Shortly after a breathlessly hyper Ron Rosenbaum declared Stephen Daldry’s The Reader to be one of the worst Holocaust films ever made, comes a piece of news, if not directly, then indirectly related. According to news reports, the Iranian officials have asked Hollywood to apologise over the ‘insults and slander’ of the Iranian people evident in their films over the last 30 years.Read the

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Click here to read the review of Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon.

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Click here to read the review of David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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Click here to read a review of Gus Van Sant's Milk.

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Click here to read the review of Stephen Daldry's The Reader.

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Yes yes, I'm obsessing over the Oscars...but if not now then when right?Click here to reach this gallery.

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Perhaps one of the most reductive, not to mention badly written, and absolutely un-researched pieces I have read about a writer. The victim this time is Margaret Atwood. Sadly it was carried out by The Hindu Literary Supplement. Click here to read.

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I came across a unique collection of Academy Award ceremonies showcased by Google, sourced from Life. Click here to have a look.

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Click here to read the article.

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Danny Boyle’s little film, Slumdog Millionaire has made it big. With four Golden Globe wins including major ones like Best Film and Best Director have made it an Oscar favourite. As was expected, a film like this would have encouraged yawns from the Indian masses and at best would have received critical nods and intellectual appraisal at film festivals. But then Rahman went and won a Golden Globe

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There is no dearth of films on the darkness of suburban life in America. In fact we get at least one every year. As far as content goes, Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road is nothing new.A young couple move to the suburbs after their first pregnancy, looking for a stable background for the life that is to come and for themselves. Few years and two children down the line, it hits them that they aren’t

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Click here to go to Joan Baez - A journey in music

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One of the best publicity campaigns in the history of Indian cinema was designed for Ghajini. The anticipation for this film was like none other. Internet movie portals had a glorious December with page-views increasing ten folds each time they mentioned the word Ghajini. It was as if there was something magical about the word, that made people leave anything they were doing and lap up gossip,

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Few would believe that the hyper Woody Allen has it in him to make a film like Vicky Cristina Barcelona. His films so far have been witty, fast-paced and likeable, especially when he isn’t in them because he can play but one character – himself. Vicky Cristina Barcelona however looks like it’s made by a wholly different person. One whose soul agenda is not to convey his great wit and intelligence

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Click HERE to read a review of J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard

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Click here to read the review of Burn After Reading.

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There were two good things about Onir's Sorry Bhai and these were Shabana Azmi and Boman Irani. Unfortunately, that was it.I'm still puzzled about why this film was labelled 'unique', 'unusual' or any such favourable term. It is the most run-of-the-mill story of an engaged couple where the woman realises days before the wedding that she has in fact fallen out of love with her fiance and is now

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To say that a new dawn is visible in Bollywood is a tad contrived, but somehow that is all I can think of when I think about Dibakar Banerjee, the director of Oye Lucky Lucky Oye. Banerjee’s earlier film, Khosla Ka Ghosla came at a time when small-budget films with relatively unknown or character actors like Parvin Dabbas, Ranvir Shorey and Boman Irani were still treading a tightrope between

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If you're looking for evidence of Bollywood coming of age, then please direct your glance somewhere far far away from Karan Johar. He has never claimed to be anything more than an entertainer, and that is exactly what he is. One wonders what it means when posters of a film say, 'Karan Johar presents Dostana. Directed by Tarun Mansukhani.' Is he merely a producer, or has he somehow stamped the

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Click here to read an article I wrote on Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon.

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Jhumpa Lahiri never loses sight of who she is. An Indian, yet an outsider. It isn't an unusual thing to be, and many old NRIs yearn for their home soil and whatnot, but Lahiri's writing walks that thin line between something is dripping with nothing but nostalgia and one that is eager to forget its roots.With The Interpreter of Maladies, a new identity emerged which has now taken definite shape

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With the fuss around the almost-superhero – James Bond, relooking at this much-loved genre becomes inevitable. A strange dichotomy faces us today, technological advances are at an all time high, to put it crudely, with James Bond all but flying, it looks like very few things are unachievable; and yet, the demand for fantasy is growing. Be it Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, or the any of the

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Click here to read article I wrote on the release of Quantum of Solace for NDTVMovies.com.

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A review of a new anthology of Manto's stories.

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I read some film critic calling Abhishek Kapoor’s Rock On, a worthy successor to Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai. I can’t think of a statement further than the truth. There is not a doubt in my mind that, being ‘a worthy successor’, or in less kind terms, ‘cashing in on DCH’s popularity’ is what this film aimed to do. But that doesn’t mean it manages. What it does manage, is to look like a far

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There's a lot about Mehreen Jabbar's film, Ramchand Pakistani, that can be appreciated. Syed Fazal Hussain, who plays Ramchand, is on the top of that list, Nandita Das is close to the bottom, and the film itself hovers somewhere in the middle.To clear the air, it is important to mention that the balanced political standpoint of the film speaks to its credit. For once, an India-Pakistan film isn't

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“I’m going to stop talking now,” said Mrinal Sen as he got up to introduce his film Khandar (1983) at the 10th Osian’s Cinefan Festival, where he is this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winner. “Because if I don’t, I will contradict myself.” It is hard to believe this of a man who has been known for keeping steady on the path of radical political cinema. He created the Indian New Wave, and he

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I did it to myself. I had read the novel, not liked it, but curiosity got the better of me and off I went to watch Raja Sen’s adaptation of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel, Krishnakanta’s Will. Did you ever watch The Mahabharata? Well this film seemed longer. In college, we were told this was a novella, a short novel. The film, however, bore no resemblance of this distinction.A quick recap

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Rajkumar Gupta’s recent film Aamir has created a stir it seems in the country. And not just because it stars Rajeev Khandelwal—a relatively new face on the big screen, but also because it is one of the films that dares to approach the tabooed Muslims-in-India issue. The long and short of the film is that it is about Aamir, a young doctor who has just stepped foot on Indian soil after finishing

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Every once in a while a film comes along that can leave you a bit stunned. Primarily because it’ll trick you into believing that you have a fairly good idea of what it is about. This Oscar season, the dark horse was Juno.Written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman, this film was last year’s charmer. And the charm is a collective effort of the story-tellers and the actors who leave

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Velasquez's Las Meninas-one of the most talked about paintings in the history of European Art is a mere reference towards the end of Carlos Saura's film Goya en Bordeos. The young artist examines the painting-as it inhabits a dark go down-with growing realisation with each passing moment. It is a while before he can understand the enormity and the complexity of that painting, where Velasquez has

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This year’s Oscar nominee, Charlie Wilson’s War (Philip Seymour Huffman for Best Supporting Actor) is a puzzle. It could be one of two things: an incredibly clever, subtle scathing comment on the history of American foreign policy, or a fairly uni-dimensional – not to mention jingoistic – addition to the ‘great America’ series that occupies a significant place in Hollywood.The film is based on

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There are some writers who can justifiably be subjects of legends true and false. J.M Coetzee is one such. It is said that he never laughs, and his Nobel Prize winning work, Disgrace confirms it. Disgrace had shaken me out of the comfort zone of politically correct and somewhat idealistic views on the much celebrated end of apartheid in South Africa. There were parallel stories, imagery, comment

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It Matters coz its Black or WhiteIt often happens that when you have low expectations of a film, you end up enjoying it because it has something that you didn’t expect it to have. When I read the tagline of this film – Every Child is Special – every cynical bone in my body had low expectations of the film. Unfortunately, even that could not redeem the painful experience that was Taare Zameen Par.

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Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s deep spiritual struggle with the representation of the Spanish Civil War was first visible in The Devil’s Backbone in 2001. He chose the ghost-story as a natural symbol for a tragic history, one that hasn’t been avenged and therefore put to rest – quite literally, it spoke of history as a something that haunts the present. It was perhaps this literal quality

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Dancer in the Dark: Lars von Trier and the Golden HeartDanish filmmaker Lars von Trier makes no secret of his deep criticism of the United States of America. He made Dancer in the Dark, the third part of his ‘Golden Heart’ trilogy, in 2000, and the film served, in many ways, as a precursor to the ‘USA: Land of Opportunity’ trilogy that he began after being criticised by American filmmakers at the

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Let me state for the record that I love Shahrukh Khan. I know his acting skills support him only as far as he plays romantic roles, his attempts at variety are usually disastrous—the prime example of which is Duplicate—and that we are lucky he tries this on rare occasions. So I went to watch Om Shanti Om expecting a ridiculous plot (everyone said it was a remake of Karz), and bad acting — not

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Innocence and History in Forrest GumpThe 60s have held a fascination in the minds of millions across the world— the Beat Generation, the hippie culture, Joan Baez, Holden Caulfield, the Beatles, lifting the ban off Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Catch 22 etc have appealed to the rebellious desires of artists, writers and filmmakers for years. In the romance of the rebellion, it is easy to forget what

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The Politics of Space in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Much has been said about J.M. Coetzee’s discomfort at being branded as a South African novelist and not just a novelist. Much has also been said about his “impatience” with history defining and dominating literature. While

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United 93 : Polite PropagandaLet’s start with some basic facts. United 93 was one of the four planes that were hijacked on September 11, 2001. The plane probably missed its intended target and crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania leaving no survivors.Now United 93 is the film made by Paul Greengrass that tries to capture what might have happened on the

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The Catcher in the Rye: The Language of a Rebel ‘I am not aiming high I am only trying to keep myself alive Just a little longer’

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