“My dad had gifted me a camera way back, it started off with that,” Salamat reminisced. Husain likes to use a minimalist approach, shooting in natural light to capture the authenticity in his subjects. His work has featured in leading publications including, Vogue, Taj Magazine, GQ and Verve. The DNA of Salamat’s artistic sensibility is …
Bollywood never stops in the demanding race of trade and, boy, are we glad! Decoding the unique PR advertising strategies, we come up with Part 7 of our series by focusing on this week’s release: Batti Gul Meter Chalu The Shahid Kapoor – Shraddha Kapoor starrer focuses on the issue of electricity in small towns. …
Fifty years ago, this story would have been unimaginable. Stars took the limelight, and directors were happy behind the camera, basking in the art of cinema. But times have changed and the recognition that a director gets today is multi-fold. Directors are now the face of many a movie. The remuneration for a director is …
Fall is here, which means the return of yellow, orange hues, an abundance of apple cider and Pumpkin spiced Latte in your nearby coffee shop ( who are we kidding here, its Starbucks!) and time to get your scarves and shrugs out. But the most important and exciting things about fall is the return of …
Interpreting the exclusive PR marketing strategies, we come up with Part 6 of our series by focusing on this week’s release: Manmarziyaan The film is a love story set in Punjab where Abhishek Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, and Vicky Kaushal will be seen in intriguing roles. Since day one, the cast and crew have kept the …
BY: Aneesh Balasubramaniyan A few years ago, Naved was just another guy you might walk past and not remember for the rest of your life. One fine day, after some moments of confessed frustrations, Naved went out and recorded a video of him rapping on a beat-all done on his iPad, and put it up on …
BY: S Juneja Think of the many Sundays you have missed dozing away on your recliner wading time away thinking that this would have been magical if I had some soft jazz in the background and an entertaining book in hand. Legends of Bollywood is a book made to satiate just that. There could not have …
In our country, what is measured ‘beautiful’ is often dictated by what’s seen on giant billboards, by advertisements that sell products to approved gender roles that are predefined and stab at our deepest insecurities – and most importantly, by our society whose minds have been shaped to accept it all, no questions asked. Thankfully, the …
By S Juneja There is always a looming curiosity when a producer introduces a movie, ‘sort of a sequel to Lunchbox’. We agree that the 2013 drama, Lunchbox, has enough takers intrigued enough to sit through two odd hours of a movie that claims to have taken off where Lunchbox failed to tread. But is …
The TISS Convention Centre in Mumbai was packed to the rafters with people who had come to attend a symposium inspired by SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s 2018 Peace Proposal. An event with a difference, it aimed at steering the world away from conflict, and working towards building a humanistic society.The symposium had dignitaries speaking on …
