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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- Aug 16
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 6 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 7 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 4 min
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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Digital Cahier
- Jan 28
- 6 min
This is neither a review, nor is Pathaan a cinematic masterpiece, yet…by Sharad Raj
The economic parameters within which mainstream cinema works, world over is well known to everyone, as are the means of production,...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 3, 2022
- 3 min
Of Salim-Javed, Alexander Korda, & the hyperlinked world By Ranjan Das
In Diptakirti Chaudhuri’s deeply engrossing account WRITTEN BY SALIM-JAVED, Salim Khan quotes Alexander Korda on the brevity that should...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 25, 2022
- 6 min
A requiem for Mayfair cinema, Lucknow by Sharad Raj
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(1)English movies which essentially meant Hollywood films (Hollywood being the benchmark for “good cinema” catering to the English-speaking...
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Digital Cahier
- Jul 28, 2022
- 1 min
Letters That Matter:Dreyer, Ghatak, Gandhi and The Word by Amrit Gangar
Indian film scholar, historian, critic and curator, Amrit Gangar refers to two letters from Danish auteur, Carl Dreyer and Indian master,...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 25, 2021
- 7 min
Who is my lover across the river, Kumar? An actor prepares by Mita Vashisht
The year is 1987, at the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. The month of August in Pune is a misty drizzle. The air...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 21, 2021
- 10 min
The adventures of comrade Sergei in the land of the capitalists by Monish K. Das
‘Battleship Potemkin’ premiered at the historic Bolshoi Theatre auditorium in Moscow on December 21, 1925. The audience consisted of the...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 16, 2021
- 1 min
Punit posts posters 11-celebrates Kamlabai & Shanta Hublikar
1. Poster for Ambrish - 1934 Deco applied to Indian motifs by J. Mistri. Stylized female figures of the kind seen here appear also in the...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 14, 2021
- 4 min
Khalid Mohamed flashes back to the shocking 'Deep Throat', which is now considered a cult classic!
Today almost 50-plus years later, 'Deep Throat' (1972) has become a cult classic. And to think once upon a time, it was a forbidden crash...
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