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Stories written by Amborish Roychoudhury
Amborish Roychoudhury is a Social Media professional and film fanatic. Apart from films, he's fond of comics and classic detective fiction. For a Bengali who was exposed to a deluge of literature, music and cinema, with a liberal dose of Doordarshan at an early age, this queer mish-mash resulted in a keen awareness of pop-culture, particularly Cinema.

Remembering Yash Chopra

Yash Chopra

To call him the ‘King of Romance’ may be doing disservice to a prolific creator like Yash Chopra

October 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Features & Opinion,Spotlight | Read More »

In a Cult of their own, Part – II

andaz-apna-apna

Yash Chopra is looked upon as the grandfather of candyfloss romance, an antithesis to the more ‘artistic’ genre of films. One wonders why.

September 5th, 2012 | Posted in Features & Opinion,Spotlight | Read More »

In a Cult of their own (Part – I)

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Films that gained a ‘cult following’ over the years, despite being unnoticed on release

August 21st, 2012 | Posted in Features & Opinion,Spotlight | Read More »

Nobody thought we’re making a feature film with such a small camera: Kenny Basumatary, Director, Local Kung Fu

Kenny Basumatary

An interview with Kenny Basumatary, the director of Local Kung Fu, being screened this Saturday at Delhi Ocian’s CineFan Film Festival.

July 27th, 2012 | Posted in Interview | Read More »

Villains in Indian Cinema

Amjad Khan

Javed Akhtar once said that if one were to make the list of the villains of Hindi Cinema, one can write the socio-political history of India for the last sixty years. Nothing could be more apt.

July 26th, 2012 | Posted in Features & Opinion | Read More »

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