Tag: Hollywood
Melania’s Missing Children, Bardem’s Free Palestine, and Chopra’s Uncomfortable Silence: A Study in Hypocrisy
India was the first to recognize Palestine and stood with the Global South. Today, we remain silent on Gaza, Cuba, and Venezuela. It is time to reclaim our strategic autonomy. While, at the Oscar ceremony, Javier Bardem declared 'Free Palestine' while Priyanka Chopra stood uncomfortably silent. As a UNICEF ambassador, she speaks for children but ignores those in Gaza and India's own Dalits.
How soccer’s loss became Hollywood’s gain
For over a month, the 1965 film The Hill was on my watchlist. I kept pushing back, for a variety of reasons. Saturday evening,...
The mind of an extra-ordinary actor
Incidentally, the last film I watched in the theatres before the country went into lockdown, was Irrfan Khan’s last release in India ‘Angrezi Medium’....
Irrfan Khan believed in talent than mere looks
In the Eighties, when Irrfan was a teenager, people used to say he looked like the spitting image of the then Bollywood star Mithun...
ইরফান খান শুধু চেহারার চেয়ে প্রতিভায় বিশ্বাস করতেন
আশির দশকে, ইরফান যখন কিশোর ছিলেন, তখন লোকে বলত তাকে তৎকালীন বলিউড তারকা মিঠুন চক্রবর্তীর থুতু ফেলা ছবির মতো দেখতে। এই যুবক এটি একটি...
Irrfan Khan- The unforgettable star of Indian cinema
"Teeno Khan Ko Takkar Dene Ke Liye, someone has arrived dude," a legendary filmmaker had once paid ode to a rustic-looking actor with his...