Arjun NiyogiNETFLIX (NFLX): OTTscape in a transition mode, calls for a cautious diligent rationalization going…The OTT streaming medium is going through a huge transitional phase right now. The overall global economic slowdown has forced the…Jan 12Jan 12
Arjun NiyogiPast Lives: Bridging the gaps in life and beyond…..“Who do you think they are to each other?”Oct 16, 2023Oct 16, 2023
Arjun NiyogiTravelling back home or away from it….with a movie and a song…The train stopped at a station named Barog. This was supposedly the scheduled breakfast break. The attendant deboarded the compartment to…Jul 31, 2023Jul 31, 2023
Arjun NiyogiSide A…Side B: Cassettes of memories we play, stop, eject or get stuck in…..Are memories analog or digital? Today, we store our everyday memories in the form of photos in drives, we list and rate movies we see in…Jul 18, 2023Jul 18, 2023
Arjun NiyogiPORN Stories: Majority WATCHES, most people ENJOY, but everybody FAKES (in public)I was at a film festival. I did not want to attend. My friends dragged me in. We were just done with our coffee at a coffee shop in a…Jun 30, 2023Jun 30, 2023
Arjun NiyogiMemories of a monsoon, a window to the multiverse of wetnessA few years back, sitting in my office, I casually said to my colleagues, “I want to go to Kerala once, to see the monsoon arrive.”. It was…Jun 19, 2023Jun 19, 2023
Arjun NiyogiImperfections galore, digital FILTER is the new “Fair & Lovely”In the 80s, a television commercial had overnight caught the attention of the audience. It showed a “devil” (a bald person, with a white…Jun 14, 2023Jun 14, 2023
Arjun NiyogiMovies, Birdsong and Memories: Close encounters of the strangest kindIn the last scene of Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi (The Adversary), Siddhartha, the protagonist in the film hears a birdsong outside his room…Jun 9, 2023Jun 9, 2023
Arjun NiyogiNANPAKAL NERATHU MAYAKKAM — Lijo Jose Pelissery gets into a transcendental realm with…“I was thinking…Did any of us think there would be a place like this? Did any of these people think they would have to meet us? Now we are…May 30, 2023May 30, 2023
Arjun NiyogiWhy does it have to be always a COMPETITION? CANNES or otherwise….We are in the results season. The results of the secondary and senior secondary school board results of various states, ICSE, and CBSE are…May 26, 2023May 26, 2023