Barricade is a poignant political play for today's times. IMAGE: A scene from the play Barricade. Photographs: Kind courtesy Raj Lalwani A certain political play is gaining popularity in......
A theatre group in West Bengal, known for its productions on socio-economic themes, has dropped an artiste from a play after the actor joined the Bharatiya Janata Party. Saurav Palodhi, whose Ghum......
The colour has been rendered to activities that would have astonished Swami Vivekananda, says Sunanda K Datta Ray.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com The censors forced Utpal Dutt to re-shoot......
'These naval sailors should have been given due respect as freedom fighters.''February 18, 1946 should be as important as January 26 because that date changed everything.' Illustrations: Dominic......
33-year-old Abhishek Banerjee has emerged as the most visible and significant leader in the party after his pishi (aunt), Mamata Banerjee reports Ishita Ayan Dutt. IMAGE: TMC......
'A balanced head plus heart approach would be a full opening up of the economy including manufacturing and internal travel in the country but excluding COVID-19 hotspots,' recommends Jaimini......
No longer Bengal's finance minister, Amit Mitra, Mamata's principal chief advisor, will still advise and aid the 'chief minister and finance department on all matters relating to management of......
'Earlier, the comedy track used to run parallel to the main story with songs et al.''Nowadays, it's just once one scene here and there.' IMAGE: Mehmood and Shubha Khote in Sasural. Shubha Khote......
Boy meets girl, sparks fly, eternal vows are sung, obstacles are overcome and the all-important happily-ever-after is accomplished. Every second plot in Bollywood is a love story. But there are few......
A movie like Bad Boy being made in 2023 would have been just as unwatchable no matter who made it.That Rajkumar Santoshi has, is almost heart-breaking, sighs Deepa Gahlot. There is something......
The Kerala Story is among a long list of films that invited bans and censorship. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led Uttar Pradesh government announced on May 9, 2023 that the film The Kerala Story......
Rohit Shetty, that king of blockbusters, and his 'comedy-verse' of actors came together to launch the trailer of their next laughathon, Cirkus. The event, as expected, was as entertaining as......
The enormous structured global advertising machinery that surrounds every football game on the planet today?Pele was perhaps single-handedly responsible for all of it.By just being brilliant,......
Satyajit Ray's world revolved around Edson Arantes Do Nascimento, better known to millions of football fanatics as Pele."It was not possible to watch a match on television during Baba's (Ray's)......