Jabberwock

Guess who. (Fans of 1980s mainstream Hindi cinema * might * get it.)         See pic below for the answer…👇 I had a short but very pleasant...

(Did this short piece for Reader’s Digest, about the new Nemai Ghosh-Satyajit Ray exhibition. Some photos from my walkthrough last month are...

A couple of weeks ago I made the time to go to my (generally neglected) screening room in Panchshila Park for a few evenings, and watch some...

“All the good movies have been made.” “The world belongs to the young.”  A couple of nice meta-scenes between the 80-year-old Boris Karloff ...

At a hotel in Gurgaon yesterday, I had my most satisfying “celebrity” encounter ever – this was a meet-and-greet for Aloka the Peace Dog , o...

Pleased to see this book, a tribute to the director Awtar Krishna Kaul who died in 1974, aged just 35, shortly after completing his only fea...

(My Economic Times column – about a few good films I watched recently, and the possibly whimsical links I saw between them. As you can see f...

I had a nice time conducting the walkthrough for the (very elegant) Nemai Ghosh-Satyajit Ray colour-photo exhibition at DAG (formerly Delhi...

Another film I greatly enjoyed in a hall (late-night show, very few people around, just the right environment) is Ritwik Pareek’s Dug Dug , ...

Following a few months where I had spent much more of my time (and eye-strain time) on reading as opposed to watching, I ended up seeing qui...

(Wrote this review for Mint Lounge. A couple of my earlier essays about the contemporary Malayalam cinema are here and here ) -------------...

A little girl whom I knew a few years ago – aged barely three at the time, but bright, perceptive and sensitive to animals – gave me the nic...

At risk of turning this space into a monthly “quiz report”... at the Depot48 pub quiz last Sunday, our team (rechristened “Neela Tendua” in ...

I won’t pretend to be “objective” about anything that Soumik Sen (writer, director, showrunner, musician, many other things) does. We have ...