Category Archives: Film Reviews

Last Lear – Rituparna Ghosh’s Thesis on Amitabh Bachchan

Posted on October 12, 2020 by secondsaturn

Many moons ago, my senior in Jadavpur University, now a eminent gender economist, was keen that Rituparna Ghosh who was a year senior to me in the class and I should become very good friends. I barely knew who he … Continue reading →

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Vinci Da

Posted on April 15, 2019 by secondsaturn

This is quite a joke among our girls Ghalib gang that we the single women on the wrong side of the 50’s is increasingly finding ourselves marginalized even if we have a room of our own. Ghalib becomes our reference … Continue reading →

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Sanju

Posted on July 19, 2018 by secondsaturn

I have not watched the film Sanju. Yasser Usman has already written about Sanjay Dutt, I am yet to read it. I have not followed Sanjay Dutt really though I wish I could. I know some of his fans and … Continue reading →

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Politics of Padmavati

Posted on February 11, 2018 by secondsaturn

Watched the film Padmavat. Spectacular, disquieting and disturbing. Spectacular because of the visuals but disquieting and disturbing because of the history. Historians want to take the history bit out of it and the Karni Sena wants to stop the history … Continue reading →

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Amitabh @ Prateeksha

Posted on September 24, 2017 by secondsaturn

It was exactly on the 20th of December 1990 that I got an invitation from Amitabh Bachchan to be his house guest at Prateeksha in Mumbai. The invitation came through a call from Mumbai, then still Bombay in my landlord’s … Continue reading →

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Partition and Cinema

Posted on May 10, 2015 by secondsaturn

Partition and Cinema . May 8, 2015 at 8:24am I will call her as Miss T because I have to conceal her real identity for purposes of privacy. No, her name does not start with a T, far from it. … Continue reading →

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Obituary Rituparno Ghosh

Posted on June 2, 2013 by secondsaturn

I was drawn to Rituparna Ghosh  for his craft; he had magic with his camera, he could weave poetry with his lens. He followed several styles; I think that he began with Ogo Bodhu Shundori of Salil Dutta in his … Continue reading →

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Lincoln The Movie

Posted on March 15, 2013 by secondsaturn

I have more relatives living in the USA than I have in India, I think. I also have some friends living in America. They are not recent emigrants; many are there for the second generation now. Thanks to the Facebook, … Continue reading →

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Zindagi Badi Honi Chahiye, Lambi Nahin…

Posted on July 19, 2012 by secondsaturn

The first Hindi film I saw which I also happened to follow and recall was Aradhana. It was in a large group of uncles and aunts and cousins that we went to watch the film in a modest theatre in … Continue reading →

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Kolkata As Star

Posted on April 13, 2012 by secondsaturn

In Shrijeet Mukherjee’s 22shey Shrabon and Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani, the star is the city of Kolkata, and that too such a powerful star that it could render the Bengali superstar, Prosenjit in the former and the Hindi film star Vidya … Continue reading →

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