COVER STORY
The film was trashed by critics but lapped up by the audience, taken in as they were by the bright, gaudy sets
Outlook Magazine - 11 January 2016
52 Films To Light Up Your Life In 2016
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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
Arushi Bedi demystifies the highs and lows in the lives of eight newsmakers, including a product and a country.
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.
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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
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Our prime minister is a one-man show. How has his governance fared in 2015?
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Photos to remember 2015
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Arushi Bedi demystifies the highs and lows in the lives of eight newsmakers, including a product and a country.
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A subtle satire on those who obsess about linguistic purity
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A saga of theatrical ambition and conceit, pride, deception and hypocrisy.
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The lost-and-found screwball comedy theme taken to its apex.
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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.
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Luminaries who made a difference to this world, and moved on to the next
OTHER STORIES
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The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news
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People who hovered on our consciousness for that brief while before exiting stage, perhaps to return another day
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For those who are musically inclined, there’s much to cheer about in 2015.
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13 questions for which the answers are not in our list of 52
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Vatsala Mamgain dives into last year’s recipe files and reminds us what was hot
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For they deserve every bit of the adulation
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These top professionals are never without a read. This is what they liked most.
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And then came a big right cross....
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Stuti Agarwal identifies some artists to look forward to
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Sensuality and claustrophobia in a feudal setting of 1920s China.
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The title passed into common usage to describe repetitive living.
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A journey of innocence to experience, of unrequited, selfless and selfish love, and love found and lost several times over.
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Woody Allen's genre-defying romantic comedy
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A fantasy-adventure film, essentially for children which soon attained cult status
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A Broadway masterpiece adapted into a film.
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What holds this film together is not the plot but the theme of food
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Whatever the issue, Twitterverse is the first to get lit. The 140-character leeway is a pithy weapon to make a point. A sampler...
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The weird, the wacky and the mind-boggling...
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Today, single screens are a dying breed—only a few limp along, their facades veritable signages of mortality.
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Aheli Basu crunches numbers from the list that will light up your life in 2016
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To get the economy right, Modi sarkar needs to get itspolitics right or it’ll lose a winning battle
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The alphabet soup that was 2015 deserves to be savoured and then preserved, one letter at a time.
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As magical as it gets, and very, very English.
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Captures the nostalgic spirit and witty patois of the wounded rock-soldiers in the post-hippie decade.
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Freely borrowed from <i>The Godfather</i>, but brilliantly localised by Mani Ratnam,
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A face-heterografting sequence led to several nauseated faces in theatres
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Its trudging ground is the American Midwest, with its wide spaces and its homey, stoutly middle-of-the-road folks.
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Comes across as a stylistic exercise rather than one woven together by narrative
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One of its iconic scenes being the image of Harold Lloyd clutching on to the hands of a large clock on a skyscraper
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Godard’s voluptuous, sunlit film is a shuffling, like so many cards, of motifs modern and classical
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The best exotic William Shakespeare as it were.
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The archetypal ’70s family drama
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Its relevance is still found in the behaviour and attitude of many media barons of our time.
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It’s a masterpiece of choreography.
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A sceptical tribute to the ’60s and its flawed rebels.
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Fits neatly somewhere in the logical Kubrick grid.
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An English patois film made in India showing ’70s Delhi college life
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Bill Murray calls it “the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy”
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This pitiless self-satire—animated by a brilliant cast—is adapted from a semi-autobiographical play
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Redefined the gangster film genre.
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A work of cinematic art and one of the most celebrated films in history.
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The still waters of emotional stress that lie beneath rambunctious cooldom
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Some of the rail platform shots would be worthy of any European master.
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A novel that became enhanced into an icy scaremonger.
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Twenty years, and still running.
