05/08/2024
Absolutely love these photos! And it’s been a year already!! ♥️
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30/06/2024
I loved , Prasanna Vithanage’s layered, complex, powerful film starring Roshan Mathew and Darshana Rajendran. It’s out in theatres today. Link to the review in bio . Do not miss it
18/06/2024
Fun encounter with Karan Kandhari, the director of the very weird black comedy starring , where he talks about being an outsider and a misfit. Link to the conversation in bio
12/06/2024
Those who love Bittu-Ki-Mummy, will not be able to recognise Sunita Rajwar in Sandhya Suri’s debut feature ‘Santosh’, which premiered during this Cannes.
I got chatting with Rajwar and Shahana Goswami about the prepping for the film, a police procedural set in a fictional North Indian town.
The film’s gaze is stark and unflinching, as we witness the landscape through their eyes. Here are excerpts from the conversation, a day after their Cannes screening.
11/06/2024
One year already to this launch! There were many ‘launches’ after this one, but the first one is always so special. Really, time’s winged chariot keeps gathering speed. This is such a special book, because it is about such a special actor. Ok, enough specials!
24/05/2024
With Payal Kapadia, the director of the moment, whose debut feature is, in my view, and of a whole bunch of others here in Cannes, a front-runner for the top prize
24/05/2024
After the press conference of . Kani Kusruti killing it with her choice of apparel.
The watermelon bag, which has made waves, wasn’t in evidence today but that’s all right, because we’re not going to forget it in a hurry.
Also in the frame, director Payal Kapadia, and behind her, Chhaya Kadam. Couldn’t catch sight of Divya Prabha in the crush, though.
24/05/2024
Payal Kapadia’s is a quiet, harrowing, meditative soliloquy on loneliness and connection. I have a tingly feeling about this Indian film, in Cannes competition after 30 years.
22/05/2024
Indian films are busy making a mark at this edition of Cannes. Here’s a quick Look at two : SANTOSH and SISTER MIDNIGHT, the first with Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar, and the second headlined by Radhika Apte. Watching these two, I kept wondering if they will ever release in India..
21/05/2024
Fascinating bio pic focussing on Donald Trump’s early years has enough warts to merit it being called objective. Ali Abbasi directs with finesse, and both Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as his mentor Roy Kohn are excellent
19/05/2024
Rahman. And me.
18/05/2024
I haven’t been too complimentary about some of your films, I tell Naseeruddin Shah. Oh that’s all right, he says. We have a good chuckle over it. This came up while we were chatting about his first time in Cannes— yes he’s never been here before— the standing ovation at the end of the Manthan screening, and other things.
16/05/2024
As a huge fan of , I’m heartbroken to report that which premiered in out of competitions at this Cannes is a massive disappointment.
, a debut feature from Agathe Riedinger was totally worth my time
16/05/2024
Who better than the Marvellous Meryl Streep, with a range of powerful female roles in her half-century and counting career, to get this year’s honorary Palme d’Or? The 77th edition is also trying to deal with the tales coming out of the French film industry, while also celebrating big cinema: it is a tricky place. My on ground piece from
16/05/2024
Who better than the Marvellous Meryl Streep, with a range of powerful female roles in her half-century and counting career, to get this year’s honorary Palme d’Or? The 77th edition is also trying to deal with the tales coming out of the French film industry, while also celebrating big cinema: it is a tricky place. My on ground piece from
11/05/2024
For those who have small feet like me, it’s always a challenge to find the right footwear. If I had a rupee for every time a salesperson told me aap udhar children’s section mein dekh leejiye—aargh—I’d be a millionaire.
Around the same time last year I had bought a pair of Steve Maddens, about the only brand that stocks things in my size, and within a couple of wears, the sandals acquired a scratch right in front where it was most visible.
Back at the store in the mall, the salesperson who had happily sold the pair to me just a few weeks before, washed his hands off it. Nothing we can do, sorry no exchange. It’s wear and tear. Wear and tear? In two weeks?? Came back seething, thinking dark thoughts about brands and their behaviour towards paying customers. Oh well. I put those sandals away.
So anyway here’s where the story picks up again, earlier this year. Passing by the store at the airport— I had time to kill— I stopped by, with full intentions to browse-not-buy, because hey, this brand had let me down. And I lucked into the this lovely gent, who got me an exact size ( this happens all too rarely), fished out the same in another colour, and— cheery on top, offered me a third pair, from his side. Which made it an offer I couldn’t refuse. Not just BOGO, but BOG3, three for the price of one. Did I need all those shoes? Of course not. Did I take them all? Hell, yeah!
A big shout out for the helpful store manager Tariq Hussain, who heard my sad Steve Maddens story, and with that unexpected gesture of generosity, won me over!
Looking forward to stopping by again, when I head out next week!! Do I need more shoes? Absolutely not! 😂
29/04/2024
Irrfan. Where was looking, I wonder
24/03/2024
There are some film events which I really enjoy, and is on top of that list. Conversations and cinema, and, of course, films themselves, are an unbeatable combination. Here’s my piece on the tenth edition of the DFI-run event, which is slowly but surely ensuring that under-represented cinematic voices are coming to the fore globally
06/03/2024
There are masterclasses, and then there are master classes. A fabulous one with Canadian director Atom Egoyan brings to a satisfying end
05/03/2024
Leos Carax. Many sobriquets match : enfant terrible, rebel, iconoclast. Always interesting to listen to him
02/03/2024
Seriously, no one cooler than Claire Denis. Apart from everything else,anyone who dumps their Chanel tote by their feet has my absolute respect
01/03/2024
And this edition of Qumra starts with a bang. The very wonderful Toni Collette in the house, all animated and warm and so, yes, grounded
22/02/2024
Editors can make or break the film. A chat with Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese’s legendary multiple-Oscar winning editor, who says she has the ‘best job in the world’
20/02/2024
Should have figured the Martin Scorsese press conference would be jammed, so here I am, sitting on the floor, way back, so I can barely see him but can hear him loud and clear. Do not be a slave to technology, he says. Amen
20/02/2024
Revisiting the past to get a handle on the present is the theme of these two excellent films and , at the Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival
19/02/2024
Two Indian entries make a splash . Kottukkali, P S Vinothraj’s terrific excavation of patriarchy, featuring Anna Ben and Soori Muthuchamy, and Raam Reddy’s magical realist tale, starring Manoj Bajpayee, Deepak Dobriyal and Priyanka Bose, which delves into questions of identity and belonging. Who, really, are we?
18/02/2024
With my Berlinale partner-in-crime. After three whole days of being here, jumping in and out of films, we finally managed to fetch up at the best bear in the world!
18/02/2024
Last day at the Delhi Book Fair, and lots of great discounts. This one too! Thanks for the photos !!
18/02/2024
Gael Garcia Bernal toplines , a futuristic look at living and dying. And how different is different, and what, if anything, is normal, is at the core of , both competition films at . Both absorbing films which make you think. Link in bio
15/02/2024
I sometimes think I come all the way to Berlin just to gorge on the fantastic bowls at .
Watch films back to back at the Palast, and then fetch up and feed your face. Best way to
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