Jabberwock

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 ...

[Did this for my Economic Times column – continuing with the parent-child theme from last month] --------------- In episode one of the Ricky...

Good to see a fairly packed hall (at PVR Select Citywalk) for Lakshmipriya Devi’s Boong , about a Manipuri boy setting out to find his missi...

Last week saw another solidly conducted pub quiz by whysoQrious (Adittya Nath Mubaiyi and Mudita Chauhan-Mubayi), this being the inaugural (...

A few weeks ago I had a very good time watching the 1948 noir Sorry, Wrong Number (adapted from a successful radio play by Lucille Fletcher)...

Fin de Cinema . The end of cinema. Here is Jean-Luc Godard (as played by Guillaume Marbeck) in the last scene of Richard Linklater’s Nouvell...

Images from the Qila Rai Pithora complex: both the park, which has been a favourite walking space for me for around 15 years (it’s a five-mi...

(My latest Economic Times column. I only touch briefly here on the haunting Train Dreams, which is probably my favourite of the award-season...

I had a tremendous time at the Bharatpur bird sanctuary (Keoladeo National Park) over the weekend – thanks largely to the company and guidan...