Birth of a Film Psychopath

Whose Film is it Anyway?

An Ode to a Fish

Dry-cooler, Kevin Keegan Hairstyles and a Reverse Rape!
Topping Khooni Dracula was always going to be a tough ask at the very least but director/writer Bhoosan Lal felt an artist’s urge to bring his own interpretation of Bram Stoker’s legendary novel to the screen with one final definitive version and so Dracula (1999) was unearthed to swooning masses. Kiran Kumar – who has [...]

Of Blackberrys and Cellphones
Do you fiddle with your Blackberry when a film is running on screen? Do you discuss the price of stocks and shares when Kareena and Shahid Kapoor are romancing in Jab We Met? Did you ever pick up a fight with your girlfriend/boyfriend for everyone to listen to when Race in racing on the screen [...]

Characters and Certificates - Part 2
The story so far : Cubbu is going to ‘phoren’. Cubbu needs CHARACTER CERTIFICATES from the Mumbai police. Cubbu has been handed over three sealed envelopes by the Department of Character certificates at the police HQ. Now the onus is on Cubbu to take these three envelopes to three police [...]

30 days in 58 years
A BBC radio anchor was fired in November 2008 for making racist remarks. She called a taxi service to pick up her daughter, and insisted that they not send an Asian driver with a turban as that “would freak out her daughter”. It is true that children, specially babies respond well to face types that [...]

Greetings…
On the eve of the Deepavali festival, I had to urgently send a couple of DVD copies of a film of mine to a Film Festival. At the government post office that I normally frequent, out of the two multi purpose counters where one could register posts, only one was operational. The second one was [...]