Category: Film
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I am sure most of my readers will be of the opinion that Farhan Akthar was better off as a director than an actor. There are many good actors in Bollywood, but there hardly is any director here who can relate to the youth of this nation as Farhan Akthar did in Dil Chahta Hai…
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While watching films of Alfred Hitchcock, one would note that there are several recurring themes, out of which the noted ones include beautiful blond actresses, disturbed antagonists, display of staircases in distorted camera angles, stylish cameos… My favourite, however, is his portrayal of mothers! The mothers he created are far from ordinary. His antagonist (or…
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“My discovery of Tarkovsky’s first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.
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With the sad demise of Tapen Chatterjee, an era in Bengali cinema has come to an end. Tapen was famous for playing the role of Goopy Gyne in Satyajit Ray’s Goopy-Bagha trilogy for children. The Goopy Bagha era had spelled magic on Bengali kids, more than what Harry Potter ever did to kids worldwide. Generation…
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Raging Bull (1980) is one of the masterpieces of Scorsese for numerous reasons, other than the direction and Robert De Niro’s performance itself. The mutually reinforcing cinematography, especially in the fight sequences and the final scene, and the spectacular editing match the intensity of this film, that hits hard and right on the spot. In…
