COVER STORY
Cinema Century
100 years of Cinema: a timeline of some landmarks
Outlook Magazine - 4 June 2012
ISSUE EDITOR: NAMRATA JOSHI
Gori Miss
Vamps become redundant as current filmmakers prefer non-Tamil, fair skinned actresses to play opposite Tamil heroes
Fab Five
The directorial duo of <i>Shor in the City</i> and <i>99</I> list the film-makers who influenced them
Fab Five
They are themselves strong independent women; these roles portray them holding their own through a host of difficult situations.
Fab Five
For song-writing, the ’50s and ’60s were the best era. There were Sahir, Kaifi and Shailendra...
Best Of Best
Mrinal Sen, Bejoy Nambiar, Namrata Rao and Om Puri on their favourites
Gori Miss
Vamps become redundant as current filmmakers prefer non-Tamil, fair skinned actresses to play opposite Tamil heroes
Fab Five
The directorial duo of <i>Shor in the City</i> and <i>99</I> list the film-makers who influenced them
Favourite Roles
There are too many that I wish I could list and write about!
Fab Five
They are themselves strong independent women; these roles portray them holding their own through a host of difficult situations.
Fab Five
It would perhaps be easier to narrow down a list from five of my own roles
Fab Five
For song-writing, the ’50s and ’60s were the best era. There were Sahir, Kaifi and Shailendra...
Awesome Few
The cinematographers I admire are those who create, not imitate.
Collectibles
Posters of film classics reimagined for Outlook readers
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Woh Kaun Thi?
So you think you know everything there is to know about Indian movies and stars?
Watching, And Being Watched
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?
Whetted Dreams
Exhilaration to heartbreak, the universe inhabits Bollywood
Attitude Bollytude
Celebrating the arc-lit genius of a subcontinental art
Cinema Century Diary
They say people are defined by their earliest memories. One of mine is watching my first film...
Those Donnie Darkos
In the south, more than reel, films morph into rituals of the culture
Poetry In Motion Pic
Stunning photographs of the earliest of our screen goddesses, Devika Rani
Song Of A Main Road
Bengali cinema’s long high, lows, and new hopes
The Ghost Who Talked
Ardeshir’s ardent dream, or the story of India’s first talkie
Dance In The Glade
The Shakespearean in Bollywood’s dreamy, bittersweet fantasies
Palace Of Delusion
Kamal Amrohi’s Mahal is our first reincarnation thriller
Which Way To Ramgarh?
Hindi film’s parallel reality is not a utopia, but an atopia. Where’s that, you ask? That’s precisely the point.
Beta Ray Fantasms
Wildly original, far more entertaining than what passes off as A
For The Girl Next Door
Lights, camera, action...a graphic novella
Quick Guns In Quietude
It’s difficult being a superstar in the South. Some manage it well.
Badi Bombat!
The significant other of the Indian cinema, seductress, moll...
The Hills Have Eyes
Ignore, and be ignorant. Cinema from the Northeast has verve.
Retuning Alha Udal
The lustrous versatility of film music, and change wrought by time
Aamchi Pichchur
Marathi cinema’s recent resurgence harks back to its pioneers
The Script, On Balance
As a cultural medium, Malayalam cinema has slipped
Mani's Worth
Cinema’s aim must be to create questioning minds. Are we there yet?
