under Shaikh Ayaz

Ishaqzaade

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

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17 May 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
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’

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8 May 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
Hugo

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

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8 May 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
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

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4 May 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
Not the Final Whistle Yet

Subhash Ghai wants his show to go on. Never mind his surfeit of flops as a filmmaker and the iffiness of his film school’s survival

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21 Apr 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
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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18 Apr 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
Unmade in Pakistan

Parodies of Indian blockbusters are a rage across the border

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11 Apr 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
When Bond-meets-Bourne-meets-Johny

Agent Vinod director Sriram Raghavan on his obsession with rewriting and the influence of Hitchcock and Vijay Anand on his film

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25 Mar 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
The Three-Star Filmmaker

Director of Paan Singh Tomar Tigmanshu Dhulia on tightfisted critics and what his experience of theatre and television taught him about filmmaking

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16 Mar 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
Saeed Mirza Is Still an Angry Man

The director of the seminal Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai on his career as a novelist, the West’s racist ideas and why he found films “very limiting”

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2 Mar 2012 | BY Shaikh Ayaz
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