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Oct 20, 20243 min read
A Teenager’s Missing Heartbeats and Hindi Films by Sharad Raj
Woody Allen in autobiography, “Apropos of Nothing” talks and celebrates innumerable influences and experiences of watching diverse films...
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Digital Cahier
Jun 17, 20244 min read
Cinema & Space, Woody Allen's New York by Sharad Raj
New York is a city of Broadway musicals and the Avanta Garde at the same time. From Bolero to Jazz and from Beethoven to bagels and...
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Digital Cahier
Jun 11, 20242 min read
Being Faye Dunaway: a short note by Sharad Raj
Faye Dunaway in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) The first time I saw Hollywood star and actor Faye Dunaway was with Jack Nicholson in...
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Digital Cahier
Jun 10, 20244 min read
Khalid Mohamed on the guts of the legendary Urdu writers Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hassan Manto to tell it the way it was in the Bombay film industry.
Ismat Chughtai Bollywood star autobiographies and biographies are high in sales but low on telling the whole truth and nothing but the...
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Digital Cahier
Dec 31, 20233 min read
Two day Mumbai International Student Film festival organised by Film Critics Circle of India
The inaugural edition of the Mumbai International Student Film Festival (MISFF) was organised by Film Critics Circle of India (FCCI) and...
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Digital Cahier
Nov 24, 20234 min read
Movie Memories-9: Gaiety-Galaxy, Akele Hum Akele Tum & tickets in black! by Sharad Raj
Gaiety-Galaxy complex in Bandra, Mumbai The maternal side of my family was steeped in movie watching, entertainment news and gossip...
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Digital Cahier
Nov 13, 20236 min read
‘Film reviewing isn’t a Consumer Guidance Society’ writes Khalid Mohamed.
From a fistful of film reviewers in Mumbai’s prolific show town in the last millennium, today they have escalated into an incalculable...
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Digital Cahier
Oct 30, 20236 min read
Animal Instincts by Khalid Mohamed
Amitabh Bachchan with 'Allarakha' in Manmohan Desai's Coolie(1983) Right, there has been the widely admired and National Award-winning...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 23, 20233 min read
Movie Memories-8: Ranjan Das's cringeworthy experience of an Uttam Kumar film!
When AMANUSH was released in 1975, I was a kid and not taken to watch the film. Starring Uttam Kumar who was the reigning superstar of...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 16, 20232 min read
Movie Memories-7: when film buff and banker Ashman Misra hugged Tom Cruise !
Ashman Misra with Tom Cruise at the Rogue Nation London Premiere(2015). ...So, 2015, July the 19th I believe, this was a good week...
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Digital Cahier
May 7, 20233 min read
Titas Ekti Nadir Naam & the‘close-up’ kathā: Ritwik Ravivār – 9 by Amrit Gangar.
Image: In Ritwik Ghatak’s film ‘Titash Ekti Nadir Naam’ (1973), Basanti (Rosy Samad), screenshot by Amrit Gangar. ‘MOTHERHOOD’ AWAKENS...
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Digital Cahier
May 6, 20236 min read
That Discreet Charm of Bhaktism!Of Bunuel,Carrière's offer, FTII & Buunu by Ramchandra PN.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie(1972). A hard-core criminal locked up in a high security jail meticulously plans his escape, by...
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Digital Cahier
May 6, 20232 min read
Movie memories-6: when Grushaa Kapoor broke down after watching Pather Panchali.
I was in class fifth or sixth, I do not exactly remember, when my father Shri Ranjit Kapoor took me to FICCI to see a package of seven...
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Digital Cahier
Apr 28, 20232 min read
Movie memories-5:Tumne kabhi kissi se pyar kiya?Mitu recalls watching Rishi Kapoor's Khel Khel Mein.
Rishi Kapoor & Nitu Singh in Khel Khel Mein(1975). As a kid born in a film loving family (read masala Hindi films), films was our form of...
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Digital Cahier
Apr 28, 20237 min read
About The Song of Scorpions & Irrfan, whose only real home was cinema, says Anup Singh.
Irrfan on the set of The Song of Scorpions. The story of The Song of Scorpions emerged from flares and flickers of images in disturbing...
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Digital Cahier
Apr 22, 20233 min read
Movie memories-4: Shyam Benegal’s Junoon & Sharad Raj's trip to the movies that took 4 hours!!!
Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi & Jennifer Kendal on the set of Junoon. The year was 1977 and my father, Dr. Raj Kumar’s closest friends,...
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Digital Cahier
Apr 15, 20233 min read
Movie memories-3, Shanku Sharma's mohabbat with "Mohabbatein" during his bicycle rides!
It all started with bicycle rides with my bosom Satyajit Roy Choudhury. We were in the Xth standard and he used to take me on his bicycle...
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Digital Cahier
Apr 8, 20232 min read
Movie memories-2: Sandeep Pahwa recalls bunking college to see Johnny Mera naam!
20th Nov 1970 was a memorable day for me, for Gulshan Rai's first production "Johny Mera Naam" was released in Bombay, Delhi UP & East...
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Digital Cahier
Apr 1, 20233 min read
Movie memories & growing up years:by Sharad Raj
Woody Allen, amongst other masters of cinema celebrates the cinema, the movies, the great stars of their times, ones they grew up...
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Digital Cahier
Mar 29, 20234 min read
Utpal Dutt: a maverick who seamlessly moved between the trite and the hallowed by Ranjan Das
Remembering Utpal Dutt on his 94th birth anniversary Most Indian viewers remember Utpal Dutt from the Hindi films that he acted in, from...
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