To paraphrase the great West Indian writer C.L.R. James: “What do they know of cinema who only Hindi cinema know?” The truth behind that aphorism shone through on English news …
Vishnuvardhan starred in tens of memorable songs, but his brief guest appearance as a lecturer in friend Ravichandran‘s Grease2 takeoff, Prem Loka, brought an admirable lightness to the superhit film. …
churumuri records with deep regret the passing away of the Mysore-born Kannada superstar H.N. Sampath Kumar, known to the world as Vishnuvardhan, following a heart attack in his home-town on …
Naseeruddin Shah (left), probably the greatest Indian actor to have dabbed the greasepaint, shares the stage with Benjamin Geelani during Antigone, directed by Satyadev Dubey, as part of Bengaluru Habba …
Girish Kasaravalli, winner of four national film awards—third only to Satyajit Ray (6) and Buddhadeb Dasgupta (5)—and director of Gulabi Talkies which won Umashree a national award for best actress …
Besides software, Bollywood has emerged post-1990s India’s most recognisable signature. The movies open to full houses; the trade papers quote the oodles of dollars made by them; its stars are …
Four-time national award winning Kannada film maker Girish Kasaravalli quoted in The Hindu: “Had our film-makers followed the Bengali format instead of the Bollywood one, Indian cinema would have attained …
Adoor Gopalakrishnan in Deccan Herald: “Our media is so illiterate; they think only the Bombay stars bring in the glamour. It is not so in any festival. It is the …
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