It all started with words
Before the moving images, the first mass medium was the word in print. Reading and writing became popular.
And then what happened to the written word? Now its also most often a starting point for something grander and larger than life!
The very foundation of a MOVIE.
Perhaps?
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Bread (2026) | Official Poster Is Out Now! | Experimental Short Film
I am excited to release the poster of our upcoming experimental short film Bread. The film will have its premiere on 20th February 2026 at
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Movie Notes | The Substance by Coralie Fargeat
A mad film that let me reflect not just on beauty standards, but on women in art and the future of cinema as well.
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What Is A Goan Film In The Current Times?
Or, for that matter a film with stories that are rooted in the identity of a particular place-geographical, cultural and historical. In this case, the
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Yannick(2023) Is a Gentle Rap On the Knuckles For Artists
As an audience member, I rooted for Yannick when he finally had his moment in the spotlight, and the play he had written on the spot received genuine laughter…
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ART BASICS Of Photography
Who ever has an access to the machine or the technology has a higher chance of being an artist in the discipline the particular technology gives birth to. Back…
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Why The Black Bored?
The new Artificial Intelligence led revolution in art might isolate us further, bring upon loneliness. A major collaborative art form , cinema is under the fire of generative AI.…
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POEM | Of drinks and corpses
They sell you the weekend. They sell happiness. Happiness doesn’t exist. Corpses do. Of young people.
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POEM | G A Z A
We do think of the injustice and the horror. We think. We feel it should STOP. We know it. But we can’t do anything right??? Cos its world politics??
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DRUNK LOVE | Photo edits
We all love the idea of drunken love. Love itself is a drunk feeling, according to many a lore. It has captivated, and possessed humans for as long as…
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SHORTS | Modern Day Human Zoo Discovered in Kolkata. SHOCKING!
Human Zoos of the European colonial era shut down long ago, but shockingly there still exists one in Kolkata. Ironically Kolkata was the capital of British East India Company…
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ARCHIES | Why The Trailer of Zoya Akhtar’s ‘Archies’ Disturbed Me
When these two film related updates are juxtaposed something disturbing emerges. On one hand we have privileged filmmaker with privileged cast heralding a film about Privilege (at least that’s…
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POEM | Soft Fluffy Tragedy
It smells … Fragrance…. Like a t shirt in a second hand wooden cupboard. Old but washed clean.-A poem about grief and tragedy.
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“Nothing Private About Art, All Artists are on social media”
We caught up with the couple as they were in the middle of their post wedding photo shoot. The chemistry was almost sizzling considering the two don’t even know…
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THE GREAT INDIAN KITCHEN (2021) | Loses a Punchline Title To a Drooling Plot
Why does it feel like there is still a strong male gaze at the whole woman issue? It is present in both these films, Thappad (2020) as well as…
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MARK ROTHKO | The Mysterious Pallet of Mark Rothko’s Three Colours
On what merits is a work of art considered great? The complicated methodologies undertaken by the artist to create it? Or the complication of the emotional depth behind it?…
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TEACHER’S DAY | Teacher Teacher, But Can You Teach Me?
Thank you for shutting me up sternly when I asked “out of the syllabus” questions in the classroom. A questioning mind is the most useless mind in these current…
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HUMOUR | The Silent Epidemic Called Interruptions
This casual viewer is now sure to remain a casual viewer only, at least for a really long time. We are talking about pre streaming platform days, when it…
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HUMOUR | Self Help #3 How Not To Act Sophisticated In An Elevator
Most elevator fans either function extremely well or they simply don’t. Typical of most elevator fans. There is no such thing as medium normal breeze. There is often that…
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HUMOUR | Self Help #2- How to be a Tourist and not a Traveler
I am a TOURIST. I love tourism. I love tourists. I love touristy places. Tourists are a unique breed. And this guide #2 will tell you how to be…
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HUMOUR | Self-Help Tip #1 Be Pretentious
You know the best thing about ‘pretend’ is, you have so much variety. One day you can pretend to be happy, some day you can pretend to be sad,…
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HUMOUR|A Non-Guide to Celebrate New Year/Decade/Beginnings
There is a reason December is often called the ‘party season’. What else can you do on the last day of the party month? Obviously party right? So?
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HUMOUR | Honest Christmas Celebration E-mail By HR
As everyone wraps up (or rather wrap open) their respective Secret Santa gifts this Christmas 2019, here is an honest HR e-mail which I never received.
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About Me
I have very high self-image. This is the first thing you must know about me(oopps), I feel. In my own bubble I am kind of the best.
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Flash Fiction|Fight Like A Girl
An idle cop gets curious about a fight/fitness club whose tagline promises strange results.
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OPINION | Mumbai Be Kind And Get Well Soon !
The crowd, the desperation and the often famed fast life of Mumbai has somehow made us forget this basic virtue called Kindness.
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GUNS’ N ROSES AND DESTRUCTION OF LIFE
John Lennon spoke on behalf of millions to the government and the rest of the world that “all we are saying is to give Peace a chance,” and he…
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BOOKS | About Silkworm By Robert Galbraith
The setting for the second novel Silkworm is London’s publishing world. And as someone with nearly ten commercially successful novels under her belt she has
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KILLA | This Marathi Film Is Swami and friends of 2015
If R.K.Narayan was writing his novel now, this is what Swami and friends would go through in 2015. I was walking to Max Muller (Mumbai) in
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CINEMA | Commentary on The Film Court By Chaitanya Tamhane
For most Indians the Indian courtroom is almost a mystery. Whats with the filming or recording being not allowed inside the courtroom. Therefore, the typical
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HINDUISM | Observations On Worshiping Hindu Gods, Goddesses And Patriarchy
Hinduism has over 36 crore Gods and Goddesses and we in India love to worship almost all of these religiously and with regularity. But how
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OPINION | Dogs of Journalism : Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Students of journalism are told: if dog bites man, it’s not news. But if man bites dog, that’s big news. Much depends on who the
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PHOTO STORY | Cruelty Against Pedestrians
While in school we learn various uses of trees and also that they are extremely crucial for our survival. However in an urban landscape trees and humans
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