Konkona Sen Sharma is always facing the test between being liked and being good. And she never fails to come across as the finest performer of her generation, says Soma Basu Konkona and Ranvir are married and live with their son, Munna, in the heart of Brooklyn. She falls in…
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Soma Basu meets Kunal Basu, the man who gave Aparna Sen the story for her film The Japanese WifeKunal Basu, author of three acclaimed novels ~ The Opium Clerk (2001), The Miniaturist (2003), and Racists (2006) ~ and a collection of short stories, The Japanese Wife (2008), would any day…
After years in the making, The Japanese Wife is finally out. Soma Basu meets the cast to find out what gives the film a simplistic feel, like a Japanese painting I am scared of everything, I am scared of what I saw, I am scared of what I did, who…
One was given to politics and poetry and the other was a beautiful young woman from Hyderabad. Chances of them getting married were slim but love, we all know, has no rhyme or reason. Soma Basu meets Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar to discuss the life and times of Kaifi…
Soma Basu He promised he’d return tomorrow. And I wrote everywhere on my floor: “Tomorrow.” The morning broke, when they all asked: Now tell us, when will your “Tomorrow” come? Tomorrow, Tomorrow, where are you? I cried and cried, but my Tomorrow never returned! – Vidyapati (Translated: Azfar Hussain) Shastha…
Just as Cocteau would have made life fall in love with death sneaking through a mirror, Bhootum Bhagaban (the fourth play staged as a part of Vodafone Odeon Theatre Festival at Madhusudan Mancha on 3 December) creates two parallel worlds ~ life and after-life. Though the concept, ghost can be…
Self-flagellation is what a man finds ecstasy in when he desperately tries to evade the marriage trap ~ a beautiful young fiancé and a settled life in Italy. Nothing is known of the man except that he is from Kanpur with big-city dreams, a BBC filmmaker, who finally on the…