This seems like a good time to read Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s book,
The Town Slowly Empties, as the pandemic-related events of 2020 seem to repeat themselves in 2021, only in a scarier form. Bhattacharjee’s memoir harks back to the beginning of 2020, when life as we knew it suddenly changed. Written in the form of a journal, it begins on March 23, the day the national lockdown started, and continues until April 14, when the lockdown was extended till May. The intimate and the unanticipated frame Bhattacharjee’s reflections. When life is “reduced to a few rooms” and our bodies “forced into confinement”, the mind becomes “free to soar.” As the machinery of life in capitalism comes to a halt, the sounds of industry and automation give way to the chirping of birds. Pollution levels reduce drastically. Lockdown, Bhattacharjee writes, “returned us to our lost childhood. to birds. to ourselves.”
Nimrat Kaur On The Late Irrfan Khan: ‘He Could Make Dialogues Feel As If He’s Sitting Next To You, Talking To You Personally’
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Actor Nimrat Kaur, who shared screen space with Irrfan Khan in critically-acclaimed The Lunchbox, remembered the actor s death a year ago means the loss of the possibility that he stood for as someone who always pushed boundaries that did not exist . Irrfan, 54, lost his battle with a rare form of cancer on April 29 last year in a Mumbai hospital, continues to be mourned by his friends, family and fans, who flooded social media pages with the smiling pictures of the actor and shared anecdotes and stories about him and his movies.
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Nimrat Kaur: As a movie buff and his co-star, I always tried to understand how Irrfan perfected difficult and emotionally nuanced scenes
Nimrat Kaur: As a movie buff and his co-star, I always tried to understand how Irrfan perfected difficult and emotionally nuanced scenes
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We won t ever be able to recover from the loss of Irrfan Khan: Nimrat Kaur
Bollywood actress Nimrat Kaur, who shared screen space with Irrfan Khan in critically-acclaimed The Lunchbox , remembered the actor s death a year ago means the loss of the possibility that he stood for as someone who always pushed boundaries that did not exist . Irrfan, 54, lost his battle with a rare form of cancer on April 29 last year in a Mumbai hospital, continues to be mourned by his friends, family and fans, who flooded social media pages with the smiling pictures of the actor and shared anecdotes and stories about him and his movies.
Paggait felt special from day one of shoot: Sanya Malhotra
The film, which begins with death but is the life-affirming story of a woman coming into her own, felt special from day one, says Malhotra who has been receiving high praise for her performance.
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NEW DELHI: Mamma, I have a feeling my life is going to change.
That s what Sanya Malhotra, who says she is self-critical to the point of being negative, told her mother ahead of the release of her critically acclaimed film Pagglait .
And change it did.
The film, which begins with death but is the life-affirming story of a woman coming into her own, felt special from day one, says Malhotra who has been receiving high praise for her performance.