READING THE FILM BALA GANDHARVA – Aparna Roy BaligaBala Gandharva is a Marathi movie directed by Nitin Chandrakant Desai. This film is based on the life and times of the thespian Narayan Sripad Rajhans who was given the name Bala Gandharva by Lokamanya Tilak for his talent in music .He joined the Kirloskar theatre company […]
Month: January 2013
Cover Story
FEAR OF THE ‘ OTHER URBAN’ MUMBAI, MIGRATION AND XENOPHOBIA IN THE REPRESENTATIONAL POLITICS OF KANNADA FILMS: H.A. Anil KumarMumbai: As a Den-set, Villain and City of Travel: Mumbai is popularly known as a city-of-migrants. Often aggressive politics considers it as a city of immigrants. The population and its variety have been represented only as […]
Essay
CINEMA ! A RETROSPECT OR A DWINDLING MEDIUM? AN ANALYSIS ON THE STATE OF CINEMA IN CONTEMPORARY TIMES WITH ITS RICH HISTORICAL LINEAGE! – Dinesh KhemaniCinema has asserted its presence since more than a century now. It has evolved with time and has experienced various developments technologically and expressively. Ever since the potency of the […]
Essay
CINEMA CULTURE IN SOUTH INDIA – Manjunath S.We have lost the magic of various still visuals’ capacity, while positioned in sequence, behaving like moving images. The specific experience of what they communicated is unique and already historicized by now. It was an age of the archaic age of technology in the Indian context. However, the […]
Essay
MEETING OF TWO ICONS- Rajarshi Sengupta This article was written as a result of visiting Lepakshi festival (September 2012) in Leakshi, Hindupur district, Andhra Pradesh. The event took place on occasion of an annual religious festival there and also to spread public awareness about the heritage site at the same time, where A.P. Tourism promoted […]
Feature
DIRECTIONS – IN NEW NARRATIVES – Rahul Bhattacharya Probir Gupta’s artistic practice has always found its edge by producing art which is a constant subversion of the fashionable, in the manner that medium, form, motifs are chosen, rendered and images presented. Yet Gupta’s subversion does not take the direction of the anti aesthetic. In fact, […]
Feature
THE ART OF AKASH CHOYALJaipur based Gallery Artchill in upcoming India Art Fair will take the World’s breath away showcasing truly unique 3D artworks and airy sculptures by Indian artist Akash Choyal. As the Cherry on Top will be other one-off project by Artchill – launch of the first Contemporary 3D Art Book in the […]
International
MANIA AKBARI – THE DISTILLATION OF REALITYThere is on occasion an opportunity for a conversation that challenges you to the core, a situation that unsettles you as much as it enlightens your imagination, and this was one such occasion. Beginning with us all sitting opposite one another, as though we were about to play a […]
History
Mrinal Sen – A director par excellence… Mrinal Sen is one of India’s most politically active filmmakers. Sen, who celebrated his 90th birthday this year, has also completed six decades as a director. After having studied physics at University of Calcutta, Sen worked as a freelance journalist, a salesman of patent medicines and a sound […]
Obituary
and Th e Sun set in the West Pandit Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012)The legendary Indian classical musician Pandit Ravi Shankar suffered upperrespiratory and heart ailments and passed away last month on 11th December. Spanning a long and eventful career of more than eight decades, Pandit Ravi Shankar elevated and brought […]
Photo Essay
It’s not every day you see a girl with pink hair, rabbit ears and a pair of random foam dice dangling from the sides of her head wandering around outside in the rain with an acoustic guitar she never intends to play. But once every two months in Busan, you can see oddities such as […]
Review
India Art Festival’s second edition concluded in Mumbai with huge expectationsIndia Art Festival, a modern and contemporary art fair, hosted from 28 Nov to 02 Dec, 2012 in Mumbai showcased more than 3000 artworks. There were 40 art galleries along with 300 individual artists that participated in the second edition India Art Festival from 50 […]
Review
ANISH KAPOOR – at The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia This unique exhibition, which is the first major presentation of the artist’s work in Australia, includes works from the early stages of Kapoor’s career to the present day. It explores the artist’s continual experimentation across a variety of materials including clay, plastic, pigment, steel and […]
Editorial
The presence of visual arts dates back to centuries and is instrumental in representation of life. Ever since life began man felt the need to express these aspects of life through creative pursuits like engaging in art. However trivial and frivolous some of these artistic renditions might seem to us now, they were indeed the […]