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There are filmmakers whose work you admire, and then there are filmmakers whose work recognises you. Noah Baumbach belongs firmly in the latter category. Across two decades, his cinema has quietly but relentlessly built an interior landscape. One that charts the fault lines between love and ego, presence and absence, intimacy and self-absorption. Jay Kelly
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I first heard about Rivals when the International Emmys were announced a few weeks ago. A Disney/Hulu show, apparently. What surprised me more was that it had been available all this while on our very own JioHotstar. Quietly sitting there, unannounced, un-hyped, waiting to be discovered. So I watched. Then I read up a little.
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I have found myself returning to Train Dreams again and again. Not always by watching it. Sometimes in fragments. Sometimes in memory. And sometimes in a place beyond memory, where certain images or sensations drift in without warning and settle quietly somewhere inside me. The film has become less of an object I’ve viewed and
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Some films arrive like a whisper. You don’t notice them at first. Then they settle inside you and refuse to move. Train Dreams is one of those films. Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar’s adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella is quiet and unhurried, almost deceptively simple, but somewhere along the way it opened a small window
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Anubhav Sinha and I have known each other for nearly 26 years. We are nearly the same age and we started our careers at approximately the same time and I have always envied him. Earlier it was for the wrong reasons. Then it was because he bought a swanky Toyota when most of his peers
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My favourite comfort food. Breakfast, lunch or dinner – I can eat idlies at any time. I make an idli batter almost every weekend for a leisurely breakfast followed by coffee. This recipe does not use cooking soda – I detest soda as it invariably makes me feel uncomfortable and bloated. The picture above was
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I was at a film festival in Florence and that visit was food paradise! Pizza, pasta, risotto, sinful desserts, olive oil, fresh ingredients, minimum cooking and fantastic wine were my daily indulgences. I picked up hints of this pizza recipe from there and even began making pasta at home. So here it is! Kids love
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Here is a recipe that I’ve built after much experimentation. Every time I was cooking my kids would ask for Butter Chicken. This creamy, rich, mildly spicy, mildly sweet and yummy dish was often relegated to dining out and mostly inconsistent taste – every restaurant seemed to have its own recipe. Some recipes were
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The death of a 26 year old PhD scholar at the Hyderabad University on 17th January 2016 disturbed me. Rohit Vemula’s death continues to disturb me very deeply. That someone so young should even contemplate suicide is disturbing enough. That he did commit suicide gives me sleepless nights even now. Was it cowardice? Was it despair?
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Dear Students of FTII, Why are you on strike? Why are you not attending your classes? Don’t you have a reputation for going on strike at the slightest provocation? Don’t you realize that your institution needs change? Why are you so resistant to change? Your chairperson is an eminent member of the film and television
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