Category: Arts
Mamta : Suchitra Sen’s blunder !
Suchitra Sen is perhaps Bengali’s cinema’s greatest actress. Despite her rare performances in hindi cinema she left an indelible mark with Devdas , Bombai ka Babu and Aandhi . But […]
To Have and Have Not , on an island with Boghart
Loosely based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel , ‘To Have and Have Not’ is set on a tiny , remote Caribbean island . Made in 1944 it followed Humpery Boghart’s most […]
A Passage to India , the last epic by David Lean
V S Naipaul may have dismissed E M Forster for not understanding Indian culture and roaming India only in search of seducing cute garden boys . But many others consider […]
Casablanca a film for all seasons !
Time has certainly gone by and it’s seventy years now , but Casablanca still looks like a perfect and a flawless film . No wonder you can see it over […]
The haunting soundtrack of Dr Zhivago will play on for ever !
It has one of the most memorable and haunting soundtracks in cinema history , Dr Zhivago also has a brilliant performance by Omar Sharif , sensitive , melancholic and intense […]