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India’s best shooter from unknown Himachal village
Shimla : There is a story about Vijay Kumar who shot silver in the London Olympics this week . Soon after he won three gold in the Delhi Commonwealth games […]
Teesri Kasam , a rare film about old rural India
I often wonder why on earth don’t they anymore make hindi films set in rural India even though two out of three Indians still live in villages . Around 700 […]
When Bombai Ka Babu came to Himachal !
This film really gets interesting only after the Bombai Ka Babu(Dev Anand )leaves Bombay and heads up north , into the hills of Himachal Pradesh by train and finally gets […]
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 […]
New Shimla road in a mess and nobody is bothered !
Shimla : For a change, after many years the by-pass road passing through Khalini , BCS and onwards is nice and smooth . But the moment you take the New […]
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 […]
Himachal university is a den of RSS politics : CPM
Shimla : The CPM on Saturday lashed out at the Himachal Pradesh university’s vice chancellor ADN Bajpai accusing him of spreading an RSS cum BJP campaign on the campus ahead […]