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Watching this series, I learned a new term, ‘limited-series.’ You see, we had two distinctions with stories on the screen, to begin with. One was at a three-hour-long format called the Movie. When stories were ‘too long to fit in a movie format, we had the serial — Typically, thirteen or twenty-six half-hour episodes telecasted …
Ship of Theseus is the one film and the only film where I was part of an audience which gave a standing ovation after the movie ended. It seemed ridiculous at the time, but I guess it very moving for many people. The slow and subtle film however was surprisingly enduring, and a couple of …
One significant disconnect between me and my History textbook was over the events of the third Battle of Panipat. Ask any Maratha above the age of seventy, educated or otherwise. The mere mention of Panipat brings out an uncanny sadness. The pain of a singular event is carried down by generations in their collective memory. …
