(Photos) Gulzar, Saurabh Shukla, Bharatbala Ganapathy at the special screening of The Lives of Others in Fun Republic on Feb 22nd 2008. The Lives of Others is an Academy Award-winning German film, marking the feature film debut of writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The movie was original in German: Das Leben der Anderen. (more…)

(Photos) Consider it a woman’s instinct or a biased psychology, I always had a feeling that Rajat Kapoor is synonymous with good Offbeat Cinema. I remember watching him do a class job in advertisements and some worthwhile action in the television, and then he came in playing the role of an old child-abuser in ‘Monsoon Wedding’. It is difficult to say why but I knew, he was going to stay right here and act in some good movies and when it comes to film making, I think now the time has come to disclose his silver. ‘Mithya’ is not exactly a surprise but with movies like ‘Raghu Romeo’, ‘Mixed Doubles’ and ‘Bheja Fry’ from Rajat Kapoor, it was quite expected. Arindam Chaudhuri’s ‘Mithya’ is a very well narrated lie, with everything from dramatic, comic, roman antic, thrilling and tragic elements stirred well in it. Mr. Chaudhuri has some how amended for his sins by making ‘Rok Sako Toh Rok Lo’, a good choice by putting money in Rajat Kapoor and letting him do his bit peacefully. (more…)