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Thursday, January 31, 2013

One day I discovered Suraiya

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When Suraiya passed away, I wrote this piece for India Abroad, March 12, 2004. On the occasion of her ninth death anniversary today, I post...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Kundan Lal Saigal and Kailas Puri

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Today being Saigal's 66th death anniversary, I post here a Saigal anecdote by my late father, S.V.Ramakrishnan, which he wrote for The N...
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Monday, January 7, 2013

Bimal Roy’s first film: New Theatres’ Udayer Pathey (1944) and the socialist dream

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This first appeared as "Udayer Pathey: Bimal Roy's realistic inference of socialism" at dearcinema.com on  January 5, 2013. ...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Introducing Lola the therapy dog

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Yes, this is certainly a film blog, but I simply could not resist introducing my dog here. The occasion calls for it. My dog is n...
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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Satyajit Ray on Balasaraswati: Bala (1976)

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This first appeared as "Satyajit Ray's 'Bala': Lesser work of a master filmmaker?" at  dearcinema.com  on  October 31...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The importance of being funny: Sullivan’s Travels (1941)

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Actor Joel McCrea as Sullivan Raj Kapoor in Shree 420 In writer-director Preston Sturges’ film Sullivan’s Travels (1941), Sull...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

A page from Maratha cultural history: Ramshastri (1944)

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A truncated version of this post first appeared as "Of truth and politics" in The Hindu on September 21, 2012. Actor-direct...
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