Hallyu — a Chinese term which means Korean Wave, in correlation to the culture loosely encompassing the popular theme of music, movies, food etc…. This term is used for the explosion of Korean culture reaching the various shores of the world mainly through the music-movie route. Well that’s turned into a tsunami in the past few …
We will be soon moving into a frenzy of celebrations, the biggest, the largest of all, largest on the whole of the earth so to say — Diwali. Diwali is to welcome Shri Ram back to Ayodhya, at least that’s what we are told. Today I see no such thing. Diwali is broadly speaking a …
The first memory that the trailer of ‘The Disciple’ evoked was ‘Whiplash.’ I thought the movie is a rehash for an Indianized version. But the brand of Chaitanya Tamhane (Court, 2014) was enough for giving it a try. Some parallels do exist. The Guruji of ‘The Disciple’ is a hard taskmaster like Fletcher (Whiplash). Both …