By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Westland Limited, Delhi, 2015, pp. 192, Rs. 399.00 VOLUME XL NUMBER May 5, 2016 A Mosaic of Pain and Suffering The wounds may have healed to an extent but the suffering is relived and borne again and again by the affected families and through them, by theirContinue Reading

Jaskiran Chopra’s book, Memories of Another Day, is a fascinating trip that reflects vignettes from a person’s life, growing through the magical Seventies and Eighties in Dehradun, writes Lokesh Ohri The Doon Valley evokes in those that have spent their youth here, a sense of nostalgia, which perhaps no otherContinue Reading

CAST: Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma, Ekavali Khanna, Aman Uppal DIRECTION: Tanuj Bhramar GENRE: Drama DURATION: 1 hour 35 minutes A devastating secret becomes the point of conflict between a father and son. Nithin Swaminathan, played by `Bombay’ and `Roja’ star Arvind Swamy, has got to the point that he can’t keep it in anyContinue Reading

Cast:Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Sheirgill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sachin Khedekar, Divya Dutta, Kaveri Director:Rajesh Pillai Coincidences and happenstance play a major role in Traffic, the late Rajesh Pillai’s Hindi remake of his 2011 Malayalam smash hit of the same title. But thanks to its sharply chiselled screenplay and near-perfect casting,Continue Reading

World Cinema: 100 Films – 100 Stories – 100 Nations – 100 Cultures -100 Directors – 100 Quotes The book “World Cinema : A celebration” is a unique collection – entertaining, stimulating, heart-warming and thought-provoking – that brings together a wide variety of films from all corners of the world.Continue Reading

Director : Tinu Suresh Desai Music : Sharib-Toshi Lyrics : Kalim Shaikh, Sharib Sabri, Toshi Sabri, Kunal Verma Starring : Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra and Vishal Karwal The third in the series of the successful 1920 franchise, 1920 LONDON, holds promise of a good melodious musical outing, the kind oneContinue Reading

UK, 2016, 108 minutes, Colour. Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally, Devika Bhise, Anthony Calf, Stephen Fry, Richard Johnson. Directed by Matt Brown. Dev Patel made a strong impression as a young man in the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. He has grown older sinceContinue Reading

Guwahati: Not many from Assam would know that the State still has a stretch of tropical wet evergreen rainforest in Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts bordering Arunachal Pradesh. Much of this precious forest has been lost due to illegal logging and encroachment before a part (111.19 sq km) of the once-sprawlingContinue Reading