Google doodled Alam Ara, Google doodled Ray and because Google didn’t doodle the 100th anniversary of the release of the first Indian movie – Raja Harishchandra, Cutting the Chai has.…Continue Reading →
(This is an edited version of a post first published on April 21, 2012) In India, cinema isn’t just a…
Aamir Khan goes to great lengths to promote his films. This trend might have very well started 25 years ago…
Ramesh Sippy’s Shakti (1982) isn’t as much about the Amitabh Bachchan and Smita Patil on-screen romance, as the on-screen histrionics of the Big B and and the Big D –…Continue Reading →
RIP Yash Chopra of the Swiss Alps, of chiffon sarees and Deewar.
The attention that The Indian Public Domain Project is getting in the mainstream media sometimes seems a little disproportionate to…
The Hindi daily Amar Ujala (April 23, 2012) carried a home page anchor story on Cutting the Chai making Raja Harishchandra 3D 99 years after its first screening. Ravi Buleiy’s…Continue Reading →
In India, cinema isn’t just a passion. It is frenzical. We have perhaps inherited this acute addiction from the man…
The recently launched India Public Domain Movie Project is getting some much needed publicity. Today’s Sunday Mid Day has a…
Ever since I first understood the concept of public domain, this project of getting Indian films which out of copyright into a single place has been a recurring desire. But…Continue Reading →
I doubt whether the proprietors of Fabina Textiles Pvt. Ltd. watched Rajesh Khanna’s 1980 psycho-thriller Red Rose before agreeing the…
An early morning phone call shattered a lovely dream, what was more shattering was the news behind the phone call.…
