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Cinema

City of Irritable Ghosts

Anik Datta’s satire Bhooter Bhobishyot is a worthy cinematic tribute to Kolkata, far better textured than the Kahaani brand of nostalgic love

Ishaqzaade

An anti-love story that collapses into a pamphlet on interfaith marriages

Bollywood’s Nasa Guy

Bedabrata Pain was up to hi-tech wizardry at a Nasa lab in the US before he quit the job to make a film on the Chittagong uprising of 1930

The Artiste Who Will Never be a Star

Annu Kapoor is a realist. He prays that he’ll be given the gift of beauty, not talent, in his ‘next birth’

Hugo

An anomaly in Scorsese’s oeuvre of mean dystopias, this is his dreamlike tribute to cinema

Bollywood’s Funny Guy

Ranvir Shorey on the futility of being a good actor and why he will always remain an underdog in the film industry

The Dibakarian Way of Life

Director Dibakar Banerjee on the politics of his films, his commitment to cinema as an art form and why he can’t bear to watch his own films

Tezz

It tests your credulity, but even so, this high-speed train thriller is worth a watch

Vicky Donor

This film has a sense of humour that cuts across class and cerebral levels

Sixty Years of Baiju Bawra

How an unassuming film, with a small star cast and not-yet-famous music composer, became the mother of all musicals and a precursor to Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar

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