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Jai Arjun Singh

Jai Arjun Singh

Jai Arjun Singh

Jai Arjun Singh

Attuned to the times

Gulzar composed a gentle, meditative song for a classic like Bandini more than 50 years ago, also won an Oscar

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Updated On : 28 Mar 2015 | 12:06 AM IST

Nostalgia trips and lasting morals

The similarities between Naseeb Apna Apna and Dum Lagaa ke Haisha are really just skin-deep though

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Updated On : 14 Mar 2015 | 12:04 AM IST
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Love, virtually

If Her is a bone-chilling romance between a man and a machine, it is also a comment on how human relationships are changing in an increasingly tech-dependent world

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Updated On : 17 Jan 2015 | 12:06 AM IST

A case for new sermons

The protests against PK only strengthen the case for preachy actors

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Updated On : 03 Jan 2015 | 12:04 AM IST

The joker and his disguises

Mera Naam Joker is seen as one of Kapoor's most personal films

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Updated On : 20 Dec 2014 | 12:06 AM IST
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A child in time

Though a scripted, fiction film, Boyhood was made in installments over 12 years and captured the actor's own growth from age seven to age 18

A child in time
Updated On : 22 Nov 2014 | 12:06 AM IST

What dreams may come

Passages from Rajorshi Chakraborti's Or The Day Seizes you reminded me of Fellini's 1963 film, Eight and a Half

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Updated On : 08 Nov 2014 | 12:07 AM IST

Breaking the wall

The most Brechtian film I have seen from that period is Ketan Mehta's debut feature, Bhavni Bhavai

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Updated On : 25 Oct 2014 | 12:06 AM IST

To die, to sleep: two dark princes

One can't help but note the connections between Shakespeare's prince of melancholia and Stoker's Prince of Darkness - both are preoccupied with death and afterlife. Seen here is a poster of the 1931 f

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Updated On : 11 Oct 2014 | 12:04 AM IST

Made for each other: Kishore Kumar and Madhubala

Kishore Kumar and Madhubala's is one of the most unusual - yet also oddly poignant - romantic pairings in Hindi-movie history

Made for each other: Kishore Kumar and Madhubala
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