'There's Very Little Comedy These Days'

'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......

'Paheli is a simple, loveable film'

Think of Amol Palekar and you immediately visualise a Hrishikesh Mukherjee/Basu Bhattacharya worldwith Utpal Dutt and soothing music. But as Palekar keeps reminding you, he is an "actor by......

Chupke Se: a web of confusion

Chupke Se could have been included in the category of films of Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee. A spoof on high-society endeavours, it lacks the natural acting of Amol Palekar, Farooque......

Lockdown blues? 3 feel-good films to cheer you

Feeling the heat and tension of the pandemic? Fikar not!There's nothing as effective as a good, happy, positive film to launch you into the orbit of optimism.Subhash K Jha picks three films that......

When Pelemania Gripped India

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,......