Tabla wizard ustad Zakir Hussain (9 March 1951–15 December 2024) left for his eternal journey at a time when he was supposed to be in Kolkata as a much awaited participant in the Swara Samrat Music Festival. The world of art lovers, film lovers, even tea lovers, is shell shocked by this sudden bolt from the blue.
In her latest outing, Superboys of Malegaon, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was last screened at Red Sea (where I watched it), Reema Kagti carts us to a small city in Maharashtra and throws us in the midst of a group of boisterous boys.
As the grand curtain call to Srijit Mukherji’s foray into the Feluda universe, Bhuswargo Bhoyonkawr stands not merely as an apposite swansong but as the crowning jewel of his adaptations.
The 16th Rasheswar Saikia Barbayan Sattriya Dance Award and the 56th Annual Festival of Dance were held recently in Guwahati by Sangeet Sattra in honour of its founder principal, Adhyapak Rasheswar Saikia himself, and were a rich fare.
This year, GD Birla Centre for Education hosted its much-awaited ‘Winter Carnival 2.0’ to celebrate the immense contributions of retired teachers, as well as students, parents and alumni, all held within a day filled with fun and festivities on 7 December.
The Guru Purnima celebrations, dedicated to Ustad Vilayat Khan, featured Arvindbhai’s disciples and grand disciples. It was organised at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai (20-21 July, 2024).
From a mere assistant director for 17 years in Bombay to a national icon, Prabhat Roy's chronicle full of thrash and thorns has been recorded in his newly-released autobiography, Clapstick, edited by Gautam Bhattacharya.
Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba is as gripping as Hasseen Dillruba was. Released in 2021, helmed by Vinil Mathew and penned by Kanika Dhillon, it plotted a romantic murder mystery of two men and one woman.
An artist belongs to no political party, and an artist belongs to no religious ideology, an artist has to distance himself from each one of these in order to see each one of these objectively… and finally he has to release himself and distance himself from himself.
Tribhuvan Mishra: CA Topper, Netflix's latest foray into the world of serials, has neither a novel idea to throw up nor a great piece of narration, which goes all over.
