COVER STORY
100 years of Cinema: a timeline of some landmarks
Outlook Magazine - 4 June 2012
ISSUE EDITOR: NAMRATA JOSHI
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Vamps become redundant as current filmmakers prefer non-Tamil, fair skinned actresses to play opposite Tamil heroes
The directorial duo of <i>Shor in the City</i> and <i>99</I> list the film-makers who influenced them
They are themselves strong independent women; these roles portray them holding their own through a host of difficult situations.
For song-writing, the ’50s and ’60s were the best era. There were Sahir, Kaifi and Shailendra...
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Mrinal Sen, Bejoy Nambiar, Namrata Rao and Om Puri on their favourites
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Vamps become redundant as current filmmakers prefer non-Tamil, fair skinned actresses to play opposite Tamil heroes
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The directorial duo of <i>Shor in the City</i> and <i>99</I> list the film-makers who influenced them
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There are too many that I wish I could list and write about!
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They are themselves strong independent women; these roles portray them holding their own through a host of difficult situations.
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It would perhaps be easier to narrow down a list from five of my own roles
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For song-writing, the ’50s and ’60s were the best era. There were Sahir, Kaifi and Shailendra...
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The cinematographers I admire are those who create, not imitate.
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Posters of film classics reimagined for Outlook readers
OTHER STORIES
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So you think you know everything there is to know about Indian movies and stars?
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Long before the home theatre and the multiplex, it was <i>dekho, dekho, dekho, bioscope dekho</i>.... Cinema-watching has come a long way since. Or has it?
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Exhilaration to heartbreak, the universe inhabits Bollywood
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Celebrating the arc-lit genius of a subcontinental art
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They say people are defined by their earliest memories. One of mine is watching my first film...
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In the south, more than reel, films morph into rituals of the culture
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Stunning photographs of the earliest of our screen goddesses, Devika Rani
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Bengali cinema’s long high, lows, and new hopes
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Ardeshir’s ardent dream, or the story of India’s first talkie
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The Shakespearean in Bollywood’s dreamy, bittersweet fantasies
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Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal is our first reincarnation thriller
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Hindi film’s parallel reality is not a utopia, but an atopia. Where’s that, you ask? That’s precisely the point.
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Wildly original, far more entertaining than what passes off as A
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Lights, camera, action...a graphic novella
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It’s difficult being a superstar in the South. Some manage it well.
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The significant other of the Indian cinema, seductress, moll...
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Ignore, and be ignorant. Cinema from the Northeast has verve.
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The lustrous versatility of film music, and change wrought by time
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Marathi cinema’s recent resurgence harks back to its pioneers
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As a cultural medium, Malayalam cinema has slipped
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Cinema’s aim must be to create questioning minds. Are we there yet?
