Reading Time: 7 minutes Seven numbers to celebrate Pancham. Seven sparks. Seven stars. Seven notes.
Asha Bhosle
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rahul Dev Burman ensures even teetotallers partake this heady concoction. Frankly, he leaves us no choice.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Rahul Dev Burman creates an angstful question that drowns in melodic sorrow. A question that’s for our times, and also for and on his behalf.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Debut director Honey Trehan lays out his movie on a multi-hued slow burn track that, as long as it stays on it, singes and haunts.
Reading Time: 6 minutes In this 1970 outing, director Shiv Kumar makes an unbelievably lame and unintentionally comic contribution to Hindi cinema, combining family drama, a spy caper, and coming up a cropper. Composer Rahul Dev Burman, painting out a silver lining with his score, comes to the heroic (and hero’s) rescue.
Reading Time: 5 minutes “You have one month to empty this kotha (brothel)!” says Ilias (Rajit Kapoor). Something told me that the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If there was one composer in Hindi cinema who could wrap his baton around your emotions and squeeze […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes {This review was first published in the inaugural issue of Pancham Times, a publication conceptualized and crystallized into […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes There’s this unsaid thing between me and movie trailers. I usually don’t watch them, and vice-versa. Unless, of […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Party scenes in Hindi movies have always had an arterious connection with the movie plot, and even more […]