May 2013 marks the 100th year of Indian cinema. Raja Harishchandra was India’s first feature film that released on  May 3, 1913.  Made by Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, this silent film consisted of 4 reels and was not a big hit with the audience in the first few days. But, with some creative marketing Phalke managed to get people to come [...]

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Cloud Atlas is an epic of a film directed by Lana Wachowski, Andy  Wachowski (Matrix trilogy) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). This “meta-narrative” as Tykwer put it spans 500 years of history and is embedded with 6 tales set in different parts of the world. The story begins in South Pacific in 1849 and ends [...]

Thanks for checking in.  Am slowly making my way back to this always-connected-digital-lifestyle, where we scarf bits and pieces of digital information on a constant basis. The result? An over-load of information and I simply had to take a break. It was fantastic not to be tethered to any digital device and the Internet for [...]

Margin Call was a film that I really, really wanted to see. I missed out on the screening and so was really looking forward to watching it in the theatre. I mean you would also want to see Margin Call right? The film is about the financial meltdown of 2008 and how it all started. [...]

George Clooney has a new film out “The Ides of March.” The film’s title is derived from an ancient phrase to describe the Roman calendar. “Ides of March” refers to the 15th of March. Then there is the phrase “Beware the Ides of March.” These are the words that the soothsayer warns Julius Ceasar, the [...]

Confession time. I was not sure if “Real Steel” was my kind of film. It is set in the future where robots or “bots” fight each other in World Robot Boxing matches. These are not tiny robots, but towering ones that are pretty sophisticated. So, the technology part was appealing, but not the fighting part. [...]

A Hollywood stuntman by day, and a driver for a heist gang by night. To add to the mystery this driver is not much of a talker. But then things start to go wrong, especially when a heist starts to unravel. Guess it should come as no surprise then that “Drive” where Ryan Gosling flips [...]

How do global health pandemics break out? How do you locate patient zero and quickly find a cure? How do people handle a pandemic events at a personal level? How do governments deal with it at the national and international level? That is basically what director Steven Sonderbergh’s new film “Contagion” is all about. Packed [...]

Director John Madden’s “The Debt” is an absorbing political spy thriller that is a remake of an Israeli film “Hachov” (Hebrew) directed by Assaf Bernstein. “The Debt” is set in Israel, East Germany and Ukraine and brings back a whole different world – The Cold War period with those forgotten places and words like Checkpoint [...]