For An Informed Ambedkar Age
The Shared Mirror Publishing House Coming soon! ‘Cinemascope,’ filmmaker Rupesh Kumar‘s debut novel in Malayalam, was a bestseller that created waves in Kerala. Now, The Shared Mirror is very happy to bring to you the English version, translated by Shyma Pacha. Very, very happy! Watch this space!! “Poykayyil Appachan’s lines remind one of those …
Umar Nizar Snuff films: murder on camera for commercial gain. The world’s first conference devoted to the mythology of snuff took place at the University of Bournemouth on a weekend in November 2012, a clear indication of how attitudes have changed in the last two decades: the organizers and a number of the delegates …
Vinay Shende Vinay: Jai Bhim friends. Welcome to Ambedkar Age*. In this episode, we shall discuss the issue of film-making. In recent times, we have seen a number of people making films on the issue of Caste, from a Dalit Bahujan perspective – be it Nagraj Manjule or Pa. Ranjith. In continuation of this …
Anilkumar PV The setting of the last millennium saw the rise of a new star in the horizon of Malayalam film industry: Shakeela. It was in the year 2000 that her first Malayalam movie Kinnara Thumbikal was released. This low-budget movie, with a credits lacking in credible names, came out very strongly and went …
Dwija Aami and Sreerag Poickadan Malayalam actor Vinayakan has received the Kerala State government’s Best Actor Award 2016 for the Malayalee film Kammatpadam, recently. His interview by Jimmy James in Asianet News television channel for the programme ‘Point Blank’ on March 13, 2017, became viral on social media owing to his bold answers, straightforwardness and …
Sanjay Jothe रहस्य रोमांच के बहाने मनोरंजन की तलाश करते समाजों या लोगों पर कभी गौर कीजिये गजब के परिणाम हाथ लगेंगे। रहस्य और चमत्कार तो खैर अतिरंजित बाते हैं, सामान्य मनोरंजन के चुनाव की प्रवृत्ति भी पूरे समाज के मनोविज्ञान को नंगा करने के लिए काफी है। किस तरह के टीवी सीरियल्स और …
Sanjay Jothe कला और सृजन के आयामों में एक जैसा भाईचारा होना चाहिए जो कि भारत में नहीं है। ऐसा क्यों है? ऐसा होना नहीं चाहिए, लेकिन है। इनके बीच इस तरह मेलजोल और एकता क्यों नहीं है? एकता एक नैतिक प्रश्न है अगर आपकी नैतिकता विखण्डन और विभाजन के चारे से बनी है …
Kshirod Nag In general perception, Om Puri is not only regarded as an exception in the commercial cinema of Bollywood but also praised for his portrayals, which supposedly speak out the social realities of the times. Two of the celebrated portrayals performed by him are Layanya Bhiku in “Aakrosh” and Dukhi in “Sadgati”, representing …
Tuhin Bhattacharjee “If you wish to bring about a breach in the system, then you have got to apply the dynamite to the Vedas and the Shastras, which deny any part to reason; to the Vedas and Shastras, which deny any part to morality. You must destroy the religion of the shrutis and the …