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‘Illuminating Ray’ A Critique on Gaston Roberge’s Satyajit Ray: Essays (1970-2005)

Ray’s extraordinary Calcutta films have not attracted a fraction of the analysis devoted to his early work. Western critics have tended, with the exception of Andrew Robinson and one or two others, to underestimate their qualities; at home, they were often dismissed at the time as politically timid and have almost been forgotten of late.

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‘Illuminating Ray’ A Critique on Gaston Roberge’s Satyajit Ray: Essays (1970-2005)

Satyajit Ray’s extraordinary Calcutta films have not attracted a fraction of the analysis devoted to his early work.

The Invisible ‘B’ in LGBT Discourse: A Reading of Brick Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

While in terms of narrative form and structure, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is cast in the mould of a classic Hollywood film, it has important points of departure, particularly in the way in which the central male character has been portrayed, in that it allows us to make a bisexual reading in the text.

Modes of Storytelling: Tapan Sinha’s Kshudita Pashan (1961)

The film uses an unrequited romance, an attempted suicide, a rather tearful separation and suggestions of an eternity of waiting on behalf of the female ghost.

The City in Cinema, and Cinemas in the City: South City Mall and Locations of Display

Somewhat surprisingly while there are numerous studies on 19th Century Calcutta, enquiries on the political history of Calcutta from the partition years to the political upheavals of the late sixties and early seventies are rare, and are conspicuous by the absences. In this context, cinema becomes an important visual evidence of the changing cityscapes.

The Certain and Uncertain Tendencies in Today’s Bollywood Cinema

What Bollywood also seriously needs today is to cultivate a new tendency of revisionism.

Playing Passion Over Penance – Re-viewing Chokher Bali (1902-2002)

In the film, observed some critics, ‘one misses the dignity and self respect’ which went into the making of Binodini in the novel.

Locating the Muslim Identity in Popular Hindi Cinema

The Muslim community of post-partition India occupies an in-between space beyond the self and before the other. Hindi cinema furnishes an interesting site of analysis.

Screening Delhi

Films that deal with Delhi as a city largely involve emigrational situations. Exploring Delhi-6, DevD, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, Chandni and Khosla Ka Ghosla.

Trajectory of the Indian Nation State through the Figure of the ‘Tapori’

In the political trajectory of India, the tapori is the representative of the new generation or newly born nation state.

City and Cinema: The Cinematic City of Paris

Cinema is a powerful signifying system. Cinema captures the aural and the visual realities of a metropolis and becomes a metaphor for urban life

Framing Cleo In Paris

First episode in the film where Cleo meets the tarot card reader establishes the point that the notion of time and space are interchangeable at one level

A Nazi City – Berlin in the Films

Interestingly, filmmakers trying to depict Berlin of that era are faced with a number of hurdles, esp the absence of internationally recognizable landmarks.

Christopher Nolan’s Inception: The National Unconscious of America

Inception is a projection of the collective American fear of a crumbling economy more than it is an experimental project of dreams in the style of 1950s psychoanalysis.

LSD And The Great Indian Middle Class In The Films Of Dibakar Banerjee

Before making LSD, Dibakar Banerjee made two most original and authentic movies of the so called new generation of Bollywood since the turn of millennium.

Visions Broadened in Cranford and Return to Cranford

The BBC television drama, Cranford and its sequel, Return to Cranford broaden our visions about the place of men and women as distinctive entities in the world.

Choosing Between Death and Death: Suicide in Kobayashi’s Seppuku

Masaki Kobayashi devises in Seppuku (1962) a language that is stark and simple and unfolds a drama that sharply critiques feudalism in all forms.

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