Piyush Chauhan

Piyush Chauhan is an apple farmer from Simla with an immense interest in films of all sorts, especially, Hindi. He has reviewed Hollywood films in the past for a semi-trade film magazine. And is a certified mountaineer. In his spare time, which isn’t much these days, he imagines climbing the impossible mountains. He dreams of, someday, touching the peak of Everest on his own as well as of introducing himself to popular Indian cinema as an actor-producer.
  • half-open windows

    Half-Open Windows

    Half-Open Windows. Originally written in Marathi. Author: Ganesh Matkari. Translator: Jerry Pinto   ‘On one side, the sea. On the other, the city. A city that seemed to believe that the Queen’s Necklace was enough past for it, a city sacri cing its beauty at the dirty altars of money.’ Half-Open...
  • Loev

    Loev is now on Netflix

    A story about loev, no matter how you spell it. Loev—official selection last year at some of the world’s leading film festivals, including SXSW and Talinn Black Nights—is a tender and intimate portrait of three men who struggle to define the boundaries of their friendship and the loev that...
  • Weekend Scriptwriting Course

    Rajashree’s Weekend Scriptwriting Course, Mumbai

    Have you wanted to learn how to script for feature films, TV shows, webseries or short films, but haven’t had the time to attend a long-term course? If so, you may want to be a part of the special new batch of Rajashree’s Weekend Scriptwriting Course, in Mumbai. Rajashree who? Book author,...
  • Indywood Media Excellence Awards—Mumbai edition

    Why do some people dedicate their life to the promotion of others? Why have they made such a seemingly strange deed the central focus of their life and work? What drives them towards an insane passion as this, the Indywood Awards? The answer to such questions often is easily found if...
  • The Oxford History of World Cinema

    Factual ERRORS in ‘The Oxford History of World Cinema’

    The Oxford History of World Cinema‘s promotional page at Amazon states that it “is the most authoritative, up-to-date history of the Cinema ever undertaken.” Really??? More research, please! It’s always a great idea when doing research on Indian cinema to get Indian film critics/scholars to review your chapters on...
  • The Unwanted

    Film on leprosy: The Unwanted Producers: NDTV Prime & Novartis in association with The Leprosy Mission Trust of India Venue: Mumtaz Hall, Taj Palace, Sardar Patel Marg, N. Delhi Date: Wed, March 01 Time: 4:00 pm Entry:  FREE Leprosy. Stigma. Discrimination. Exclusion. Archaic laws. Just some of the reasons...
  • Om Puri film screenings

    [entry free] Om Puri film screenings at British Council Library, Mumbai

    Om Puri film screenings   Event I: Film Screening: East is East Date:     Saturday, 25 February 2017 Time:     5:30 p.m. onwards In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children. Director: Damien O’Donnell Writers: Ayub Khan-Din (play),...
  • Upcoming screenplay competitions

    Festival Circuit. Call for Entries — Screenplay Competitions Outfest Screenwriting Lab Festival dates: Jun 05–07 | Venue: LA, USA Deadline: Feb 06 | Submission fee: 50 USD Page International Screenwriting Awards Accepted: Regular deadline: Feb 17 | Submissin fee: 49 USD New Hope Film Festival – Script Competition Accepted: Teleplay, feature-length...
  • Vol. II. Iss. I.

    Tributes—OM PURI

    “Om Puri. End of an era… এখন অসমীয়া ছবিত ওম পুৰীে কাম কৰাৰ কথা অাছিল I ছবিখন অাছিল ভবেন্দ্ৰ নাথ শইকীয়াৰ ’কোলাহল”I চাৰৰ লেখাত পোৱা যায় ওম পুৰীয়ে চাৰক কিমান সন্মান কৰিছিল I কিন্তু চাৰে ওম পুৰীৰ ইচ্ছাক বাস্তবত পৰিণত কৰিব নোৱাৰিলে I কিয় ? চাৰক সোধোতে কৈছিল, পুৰীয়ে...