Analogies from history sometime appear farcical when they are imitated in the real world. When Ram’s army was not able to make bridge over Rameshwaram t0 reach Lanka and wage war with Ravana, Ram had told Nal and Neel to ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Adding weight to enact a role
Gurinder Chadha’s new film IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, which is going to be released in Hindi as HAI MAR JAWAN has Shabhana Azmi as the lead protagonist in the film. It is for the first time that she would be ... Read More »
Houseful: Language as a metaphor to draw humor
Language and its manifestations have been used from the time immemorial by the world of Hindi cinema and even by cinema makers all over the world to create humorous situations in a film. The manner in which content is crafted ... Read More »
Khap di khap
The Khap Panchyat from districts surrounding Kurukshetra and other parts of Haryana seems to have been slighted by the decision of the Kurukshetra High Court of questioning their authority of awarding death penalties to couples who marry within the gotra. ... Read More »
Magic of Night
It can only be done by Gulzar, and as far as the introduction of new idioms and conventions into the language of love is concerned no one can come near him. He again showed it with such a finesse in ... Read More »
The Japanese Wife: Art of letter writing at its best
In the age of Facebook, Orkut and other such social networking sites, where we make friends from all over the world, but are never really in touch with them, release of Aparna Sen’s new film, The Japanese Wife comes as ... Read More »
New communication companies creating brand identity
One of the singular achievements of the IPL has been that the communication companies that were on the fringe have chosen the platform of IPL to create awareness about their brand in a big way and they could not have ... Read More »
Statues and Right to Education
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh has expressed her inability to implement Right to Education in her state citing the lack of funds to initiate the process. On the other hand she is also initiating the process for creating a special ... Read More »
Expanding the outreach of credit cards for payments to smaller shopping establishments as well
Through an article published in News Week dated January 18, 2010 it was informed that the sale of small retailers in USA and in England increased by more than 5% when they introduced the system of making payment for purchase ... Read More »
Love Sex aur Dhokha: New age in Indian cinema
How many of us would be able to recognize any of the lead players enacting different roles in Dibakar Banerjee’s Love Sex aur Dhokha? Hardly anybody, but even then the film met with a big success at the centres where ... Read More »
Humble lungi in existential crisis
Saudi Arabia through a dictat has brought the humble lungi, one of the most common sartorial attire in the countryside, as also in South India into an existentialist dilemma. For the laborers who work in Saudi Arabia, after a tiring ... Read More »
Manna Dey: The most unsung singer of Indian cinema
Manna Dey is the man with the silken voice and the singer who always was requisitioned by music directors down the ages when a tough classical number had to be rendered. He is the last among his contemporaries in the ... Read More »
Oh Sania
It is understandable; the fans of Sania Mirza going berserk after Sania Mirza announced to the world that she was going to marry ex-captain of Pakistan, Shoaib Malik. Incidence of violence has been reported in parts of Hyderabad and in ... Read More »