Is sport an art?

Originally posted on Cricinfo....read the original post here---> Is sport an art?. Copied Text Below ________________ In the early 1990s, there was a famous Reebok t-shirt with the simple slogan: "Sport is an art." Nice idea, but is it true? Can sport - which, by definition, is practical (score runs, take wickets) and competitive (beat...

Khamoshi (1969): a review

Asit Sen has directed a very strong script into a very good film. Kamal bose is the real hero of this film for his pathos filled camera work that lights up each and every frame with an uncanny appeal that forebodes what will happen at the end. And this is the real highlight of the...

Barfi! – a review

The magic of cinema is so overwhelming that it captures all of us in a trance and deposits us into a world of utter incongruity and we say nothing. We never protest. And after a point, we even start believing that this ridiculous world is real. Barfi takes us into one such world. Here, train...

Korczak: a review

It is very difficult to critique a sympathetic movie that is so engrossed in its story that it leaves little or no scope for feeling anything else. Not because there is nothing to criticize about the film, but mostly everyone would have liked the film so very much! And Korczak, by Andrej Wajda, is one...

Samskara (Impressions)

Synopsis The impressions of past thoughts and actions, Samskara, is the title of a story of a woman who has been split open into past and present. For, her mind is constantly mixing the two as, the haunter and the haunted. If her past haunts her, she runs to present and present presses her to...

Making A Short Film

We recently took on the challenge of making a film in 48 hours for the 48 Hour Film Project, Delhi chapter. We have made a couple of films before, but nothing too worthy or too up-to-the-mark. This was an opportunity to pressure ourselves and come up with something novel, and interesting, in just two days....

Review: In April The Following Year, There Was A Fire

Memoir. Documentary. Fiction. Visual Poetry. Wichanon Somunjarn's first feature film is a poetic retelling of incidents from the director's life against the backdrop of the turmoil in Thailand in the recent years. The film blends or I should say breaks the barrier between fiction and non-fiction and constructs visuals through a stream of consciousness.  I...

Review: Harud, a film by Aamir Bashir

A loud siren penetrates the heavy air at exactly 3.10 in the morning. My heart skips a beat. Muscles at the back of my leg twitch with fearful surprise. My eyes open, then close like a dreamy interval. I am not in Kashmir. And this is no ID parade line-up call. It is a simple...

Review: Saving Face

Saving Face, the Oscar award winning short documentary by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is a film that touches the heart and leaves a deep seated helplessness in the soul. The film appeals to the logical, educated and ‘civilized’ human conscious for a sound reason as to why a hundred odd men in Pakistan, and...

The Book Fair

Wandering the lanes of a warm and busy labyrinth, they wondered what it would feel like to have this place for their own. And what a place it was too; a vastness so unfathomable to the two friends that even nostalgia was taking time to creep over. What was intended to be an afternoon excursion...