Film screenings
Production Studio
Awards
Gallery
November 23, 2024
Coming Soon
events & workshops—Music, Film, & Literature
November 12, 2024
Interviews
Interview — Rinki Bhattacharya & Maithili Rao
June 17, 2024
Film Reviews
Modern Times
April 16, 2018
☰ Menu
Top Film Reviews
Top Film Reviews
Vijay 69
Top film reviews of Vijay 69 Director:...
Top Film Reviews
Paradise
Top film reviews of Paradise Director: Prasanna...
Top Film Reviews
Sharmajee Ki Beti
Top film reviews of Sharmajee Ki Beti...
Top Film Reviews
Ishq Vishk Rebound
Top film reviews of Ishq Vishk Rebound...
Top Film Reviews
Maharaj
Top film reviews of Maharaj Director: Malhotra...
Top Film Reviews
Maidaan
Top film reviews of Maidaan Director: Amit...
Top Film Reviews
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan
Top film reviews of Bade Miyan Chote...
Top Film Reviews
Madgaon Express
Top film reviews of Madgaon Express Director:...
Film Reviews
Film Reviews
The Traitor
The Traitor is a 2019 film made...
Film Reviews
The Servant
The Servant Director: Joseph Losey Writers: Harold...
Film Reviews
Hit Big
Amidst the black comedies competing in the...
Film Reviews
A Cup Of Coffee And New Shoes
With its world premiere at the Tallinn...
Film Reviews
The Monk
The Monk Director:Dominik Moll Writers: Matthew Lewis,...
Film Reviews
Mahishasur Marddini
In his fourth film, Mahishasur Marddini, Ranjan...
Film Reviews
Throne of Blood
‘Macbeth’ was written sometime in between of...
Film Reviews
A Hero
A Hero (2021) | presently playing on...
Film Essays
Film essays
Om Dar B Dar
Kamal Swaroop’s Om Dar B Dar is...
Film essays
Chattrabhang: 0 Intensity Cinema
Narrative cinema, in its most austere form,...
Film essays
‘Last Year at Marienbad’ as mystical film practice
‘Last Year at Marienbad’ has acquired the...
Film essays
Political Transformation and the Constructed ‘Real’
In this essay I hope to create...
Features
Features
Shivamma: shackled, & snared in survival strife
Kannada’s other, in familiar parlance – art...
Features
Two immortal Holi songs: style addition in film narrative
“Holi kab hain, kab hain Holi!” Gabbar...
Features
The Othello and Hamlet Figure in Assamese Narratives: Shifting Paradigm…
In the contemporary time, Shakespeare has been carried...
Features
‘U’, ‘A’, and ‘U/A’ film certification
Why are we encouraging our children/teens to...
Features
Of Realism in the Malayalam Reels
The cinema of Malayalam, having since its...
Features
Watching Cinema—the Good, Bad & Ugly
A few years back, when we were...
Features
World Viewing Women Cinema
It was an era where everything was...
Features
The Cinema of Hindi at the Junction of Globalization
The mind and body of Hindi cinema...
Interviews
Interviews
Interview — Rinki Bhattacharya & Maithili Rao
Motherhood, a Love Story: Rinki Bhattacharya and...
Interviews
Interviews — Kareena Kapoor Khan & Alia Bhatt
Kareena Kapoor Khan and Alia Bhatt discuss...
Interviews
Interviews — Ananya Panday, Janhvi Kapoor, Mrunal Thakur, Radhika Madan…
Film critic Rajeev Masand and Festival Director,...
Interviews
Close up: Homi Adajania
Homi Adajania cannot be slotted as a...
Interviews
Close up: Piyush Mishra
Piyush Mishra doesn’t mince words. He doesn’t...
Interviews
Close up: Kamal Swaroop
Kamal Swaroop is known for flouting every...
Interviews
Close up: Nimrat Kaur
Nimrat Kaur You auditioned for your role...
Interviews
Close up: Hemant Gaba
Hemant Gaba’s Shuttlecock Boys revolves around the...
Music
Music
Indie music video wins award in Paris
The music video of ‘It Crossed My...
Music
The Blue Notes
I wandered deep into the old cotton...
Music
Big Band Jazz. Part 2—Reading Music
Big Band Jazz. Part 2 — Reading...
Music
The Gigging Life in Rural France
The Gigging Life in Rural France I...
Music
Big Band Jazz. Part 1—Preparation
Big Band Jazz. Part 1 — Preparation...
Music
Recording the Drums—part 3
The Magix Buss—Part Three: What makes a good...
Music
Recording the Drums—part 2
The Magix Buss—Part Two The next...
Music
Recording the drums—part 1
The Magix Buss—Part One I have made...
Dalton
Dalton is quintessentially a film critic /essayist /festival advisor. Additionally, he’s the editor of Cinematic Illusions and the
Journal of Indian Cinema
; founder of the
Cinema Society of India
, which screens films; CEO of
House of Illusions
, a film studio that creates meaningful cinema; chief advisory board member of the
Kautik International Film Festival
; and artistic director of the Chalachitram National Film Festival. He has served on the music jury of Mahatma Gandhi University and on the film
jury (west zone panel) of the 67th National Film Awards
of India.
Of Personal Choices
Dalton
July 1, 2008
The early morning sun wakes me up to a dream come true. I pull back the curtains and bathe in the golden circle of light. Gee whiz, it’s such a nice feeling to have my own music column. There is so much I would love to share with you....
« Previous
1
2
Indian Film Industry
36k
Facebook
Twitter
13
Pinterest
Tags
Actors and Actresses in Focus
Ajit Duara
Anna MM Vetticad
Anupama Chopra
Ashameera Aiyappan
Baradwaj Rangan
Bijibal
Dalton
Deepa Gahlot
FICCI Frames
IFFI
IFI
Jayashree Chakravarti
Johnson Thomas
Joy Bimal Roy
Karan Bali
Kennith Rosario
Malayalam cinema
MAMI
Mayank Shekhar
Mihir Fadnavis
MK Raghavendra
Music scene
Nandini Ramnath
National Film Awards
Piyasree Dasgupta
Rahul Desai
Raja Sen
Rajeev Masand
Ratnottama Sengupta
Saibal Chatterjee
Saumil Gandhi
Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri
Shubho Sengupta
Shubhra Gupta
Sowmya Rajendran
Sreehari Nair
Subhash K Jha
Sukanya Verma
Suparna Sharma
Tanul Thakur
Top
top-film-reviews
Uday Bhatia
Veeyen