Two years ago, Ekta Mit­tal, co-founder, Maraa and Yashaswini Raghu­nan­dan, a film maker and artist started work­ing on their film “Behind the Tin Sheets”, doc­u­ment­ing the lives of work­ers build­ing the Ban­ga­lore Metro.

I have a spe­cial place for Tibet in my heart — espe­cially since one of my dear­est friends is a Tibetan. And I think that it’s quite a strug­gle for Tibetans today try­ing to find their iden­tity wher­ever they are in the world. It’s not easy when your home­land is no longer yours. Or that […]

I seri­ously fail to under­stand the rea­son­ing behind remak­ing a clas­sic. They should leave them alone. Let them be! So, here’s what’s hap­pen­ing to Don. And I’m already a lit­tle afraid for Umrao Jaan and Sholay.

Okay, now you just can’t go for a Karan Johar movie and expect intel­lec­tual stim­u­la­tion. So don’t expect won­ders when you’re watch­ing KANK. I was keen to watch the movie on the day it was released (for some rea­son I have this fas­ci­na­tion for watch­ing movies the day it gets released), but we couldn’t get tickets, […]

…Omkara yet? Quite a watch, I must say. Firstly, I have to admit that I did not under­stand a lot of the dialect spo­ken in the movie. Not being a native Hindi speaker, most of my abil­i­ties were picked up dur­ing my 5 years in Mum­bai. And Mum­baiya hindi does not really help! But apart […]

Fast paced, clever dia­logues, some bril­liant star power (Den­zel Wash­ing­ton, Jodie Fos­ter, Clive Owen, you could watch the movie just for them!) and a bank rob­bery sit­u­a­tion. I quite enjoyed Inside Man, which I watched last evening. The twists and turns keep you guess­ing and you’re not quite sure why the rob­bery is hap­pen­ing and whether it is a rob­bery at all. If you’re look­ing for whole­some evening enter­tain­ment, then this movie is worth watching.

When I first heard about Crash, I thought it was a movie about cars, thanks to the title. A few months ago, we had plans to watch it one evening on DVD but some­thing tran­spired and we landed up gaz­ing at the stars instead! I’m quite glad I didn’t see it then actu­ally. Because I’m still a sucker for larger than life on screen action.

So Broke­back Moun­tain (BM) got crashed out at the Oscars! I was pretty sur­prised since I was expect­ing BM to win after all the hype and hoopla lead­ing up to the event. And it did win sev­eral of the other awards, includ­ing Best Direc­tor for Ang Lee.