Navrang (Hindi)
The film was trashed by critics but lapped up by the audience, taken in as they were by the bright, gaudy sets
Bhavni Bhavai (Gujarati)
Splits the storyline between a migration of untouchables from a village to a city and the tyrant ordering the community of sweepers to be whipped for not working
Up, Down And In Between The Tramlines
Arushi Bedi demystifies the highs and lows in the lives of eight newsmakers, including a product and a country.
South Style Movies
We’re sick to death of Bollywood and Hollywood. Southside films across the four regional languages made news for being mega productions, little gems, quirky and cool.
15 Minutes Of Fame
People who hovered on our consciousness for that brief while before exiting stage, perhaps to return another day
Dos-A-Dos In Their Hands
These top professionals are never without a read. This is what they liked most.
Letter From An Unknown Woman (English)
A journey of innocence to experience, of unrequited, selfless and selfish love, and love found and lost several times over.
Goopy Gyne Bagha Bayen (Bengali)
A fantasy-adventure film, essentially for children which soon attained cult status
A Little Bird Tells Me...
Whatever the issue, Twitterverse is the first to get lit. The 140-character leeway is a pithy weapon to make a point. A sampler...
A Paradise Lost To Time
Today, single screens are a dying breed—only a few limp along, their facades veritable signages of mortality.
Johnny Come Jaitley
To get the economy right, Modi sarkar needs to get itspolitics right or it’ll lose a winning battle
An Acrophony Of The Year Past
The alphabet soup that was 2015 deserves to be savoured and then preserved, one letter at a time.
The Last Waltz (English)
Captures the nostalgic spirit and witty patois of the wounded rock-soldiers in the post-hippie decade.
Eyes Without A Face (French)
A face-heterografting sequence led to several nauseated faces in theatres
Fargo (English)
Its trudging ground is the American Midwest, with its wide spaces and its homey, stoutly middle-of-the-road folks.
Dressed To Kill (English)
Comes across as a stylistic exercise rather than one woven together by narrative
Safety Last (Silent)
One of its iconic scenes being the image of Harold Lloyd clutching on to the hands of a large clock on a skyscraper
Contempt (French)
Godard’s voluptuous, sunlit film is a shuffling, like so many cards, of motifs modern and classical
Citizen Kane (English)
Its relevance is still found in the behaviour and attitude of many media barons of our time.
In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones (English)
An English patois film made in India showing ’70s Delhi college life
Kung Fu Hustle (Cantonese)
Bill Murray calls it “the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy”
Party (Hindi)
This pitiless self-satire—animated by a brilliant cast—is adapted from a semi-autobiographical play
Y Tu Mama Tambien (Spanish)
The still waters of emotional stress that lie beneath rambunctious cooldom
