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Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
26 March 2025

Photography Review: One Step in their Shoes

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The Passerby, a photo exhibition of Indian street scenes, shows us the worlds we are walking past.  (A short review essay I did for India To...
4 June 2021

How Benegal turned an '80s train ride into a journey of self-discoveries

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For my weekly column in Mirror/TOI Plus, the seventh piece in a series on trains in Indian cinema:  Shyam Benegal's thought-provoking te...
8 February 2021

What sells in the media hasn’t changed in 40 years

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My Mumbai Mirror column: In Mrinal Sen’s 1982 film Chaalchitra , the filmmaker turns his astute gaze upon the smokescreen that is the busine...
6 October 2020

The people versus science

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A respected doctor becomes the target of public anger in the uncannily resonant  Ganashatru , Satyajit Ray’s 1989 take on the classic Ibsen ...
13 July 2020

An archive of expressions: On Saroj Khan

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My Mirror column for July 5: The late Saroj Khan created a new kind of dancing body on the Hindi film screen, but she also embodied a...
2 March 2019

Living in the Ruins

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My Mirror column : Continuing her tribute to Mrinal Sen, our columnist writes about his rarely watched gem, Khandhar (1984). Sha...

Reeling in the Real

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My Mirror column : Twenty years after his Baishey Shravana , Mrinal Sen revisited the subject of famine with Akaler Sandhane , producing a...
14 May 2017

A Mixed-Up Tape

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Meri Pyari Bindu ’s attempt to merge our nostalgia for old Hindi songs with 1990s adolescence and a Calcutta childhood feels well-intentio...
30 April 2017

Friend and Lover

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My Mirror column : Vinod Khanna’s star persona combined sexy shirtless masculinity for the female gaze with an intense rendition of male ...
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21 April 2017

Not Papered Over

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My Mirror column : New Delhi Times  depicts an Indian media threatened by the growing nexus of business and politics — thirty years ago. ...
22 December 2016

Picture This: Signs of the Times

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My BL Ink column : on watching Naseeb in demonetized India. I watched Manmohan Desai’s 1981 hit Naseeb , and it spoke strangely to the wo...
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