Chaim Topol, who passed away in Israel on Wednesday, was a beloved, acclaimed Israeli actor, best known around the world for his portrayal of Tevye in the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof. He was 87. A few days ago, On the 9th of March, to be precise, the BBC carried the news that […]
A documentary produced in the Northeast has been selected for screening in a prestigious international film festival in France. ‘Mask Art of Majuli’, a documentary film featuring the Satriya mask-making culture of the famed river island in Assam, has been chosen for competition sections of the 29th Festival International des Cinemas d’Asie (FICA) in France […]
Norm Macdonald was the funniest comedian in his time among those who stayed out of political controversies. His specialty was pointing out how uncomfortable we are facing the reality of our human limits, moral and intellectual, as opposed to the fantasies we embrace eagerly in our flight from mortality. He was never far from the […]
In 1953, a 16-year old Muslim actress was delivering a dialogue on stage, when she was shot at. the bullet missed her and hit the stage curtains. The man who tried to shoot Nilambur Ayisha a religious conservative who wanted to drive home a point: Muslim women shouldn’t be actors. “It missed me and hit […]
If it was Father Gaston Roberge, who started Chitrabani in Calcutta and is known as the Communication Guru of Eastern India, it is Father Isaac Alappat who is the communication Guru of South India. The Catholic Church in South India bid farewell to one of its ablest communication gurus on Wednesday May 5th. Fr. Isaac […]
It’s a TV series called ‘Yeshu’, the Hindi name for Jesus and it’s slated for telecast on ‘&TV’ a ZEE TV subsidiary, on December 22. This TV series, produced and directed by Arvind Babbal is being touted as having ‘a never before story line’. The claim is certainly true, because what’s being promised by the […]
I saw ‘The two Popes’ on Netflix last week. Now I see that the two actors, Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins have been nominated for the Oscars. This is a well-directed and beautifully filmed movie that covers and idealizes the story of the two recent consecutive popes, one a conservative and one a liberal. The […]
On 25th of August, 2019 Vague Forever Entertainment had their screening of their short film ‘Alone December’. The screening was held at Kalidas Rangshalaya form 12 pm. It was the second screening for the film. The film Alone December is short film of 35 minutes and it a suspense thriller genre. The story revolves around […]
The virtuoso film and TV actress Vidya Sinha, recently sene in ‘Kulfi Kumar Bajewala’, passed away at the age of 71. The actress was admitted to hospital on 11 August for breathing problems. She died of respiratory failure caused by heart and lung disease. The actress was popular for her roles in Rajnigandha (1974), Choti […]
Satyajit Ray fans and followers will be excited to know that five unpublished works of the film maestro and author are to be released from 2020 onwards. The titles mainly comprise unpublished essays and illustrations, a senior official of a publishing house said. “Translations of Ray’s ‘Tarini Khuro‘ and many of his illustrated works, which […]
Films from Indian directors lapped up most of the awards apart from one film from Afghanistan and another from Bangladesh. The 2nd South Asian Short film Festival organised by the Federation of Film Societies of India – FFSI (Eastern Region) closed Sunday evening (31 March) at Nandan, the Film Centre in Calcutta, with a fabulous […]
LOS ANGELES: Green Book — backed by Anil D. Ambani- owned Reliance Entertainment’s Amblin Entertainment — and a film which explores race relations in the US in the 1960s, won the Best Picture honour at the 91st Academy Awards, apart from two other awards. The banner’s First Man also registered a win. The film also […]
