Samit Tandon

Nov 10, 2012

Samit Tandon

The writer is an adviser on strategy, media, education and healthcare. He wishes
to be a filmmaker.

The kids are not all right

Director Abhishek Kapoor’s Kai Po Che, based on Chetan Bhagat’s novel, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, has had the box office ticking and social scientists blogging. There have been angry opinion pieces on whether the film does justice to the Gujarat riots, whether its writer has toned down the riot depiction to placate a Prime Minister-prospect, whether it depicts the “Indian Muslim community” accurately and more.

Divas of desire

If desire is the fundamental motivation of all human action, what is the desire that motivates Bollywood female protagonists’ actions? If one were to assume that “we are what (films) we watch”, the box-office is the most representative of who we are.

The sky did not fall on Bond

You can love them or hate them but you cannot ignore them. Bond films have been cult for five decades now, and the new production from the stable of the great franchise is no exception.