India

Project 365: Day 34 — High On Delusion

Those of us in India who have been acutely aware of how the state of affairs will know how we are slowly (and hopefully not surely) turning into North Korea. This has not always been the case, but has been slowly seeping into our collective (un)consciousness…

Remembering Kanan Devi, the first melody queen of Indian cinema on her 101st birth anniversary.

India’s Answer to Oscars

“Call an emergency meeting of writers, reality, sales and EM. One hour. My cabin.”

A Very Patriotic Diwali

Diwali, festival of lights, is right around the corner. To everyone who has grown up celebrating this festival, or everyone who has grown up around people celebrating this festival, the point of Diwali has always been clear: it signifies the triumph of light over darkness, good over…

Smile of a Soldier

Today morning I woke up at 5:30 am and sat in a monk mode for fifteen minutes. I refreshed myself and suddenly I got a phone call from Roonie who is junior to me and my gym buddy. He told me to get ready for the gym. On our way to gym we have shared some experiences of our lives. Roonie told me…

Rustam (2016) Review

Watched Rustam today. It traces the real life story of a Naval Commander whose wife has an extra marital fling with his…

Our Take on Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

If you currently live in India, you cannot have missed the buzz around the upcoming Karan Johar film — Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. At ConnectFor, we believe in adding value to everything. Hence, we took this buzz and made it our own. Let me give you a sneak peak into what one of our…

Why Bollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘la la land’ or ‘Manchester by the sea’

There is a audition song in ‘la la land’ sung by mia. She talks about her aunt who jumped in the freezing water in Paris and sneezed for a month but she said she would do it again. And then she…

Bring back the Angry Young Man !!

It’s been forty years since the ‘Angry Young Man’ first made his mark on Indian Cinema.

Whenever the phrase ‘Angry Young Man’ is uttered, the iconic scene of Amitabh Bacchhan in the film Zanjeer kicking the chair underneath Sher Khan(played by…