Book Reviews

Avengers, Assemble!

Who are the Earth’s mightiest heroes and what makes them so special, especially when they are together in their quest to save the world? This million-dollar-question needs to be answered in a couple of months before the

By Omair Alavi

There’s still something about Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan, also known as Junior Bachchan, celebrated his 43rd Birthday earlier this month, and we picked up photojournalist Pradeep Chandra’s Abhishek Bachchan - Style and Substance to understand the life and car

By Omair Alavi

­The sun will never set on Sholay

Every year there comes a Bollywood film that raises the bar so high that it leaves the audience mystified with its story and what went behind its making and production. But no Bollywood film has managed to go higher than

By Omair Alavi

From Alif to Noon

When the history of humor and satire in Pakistan will be written, Kamal Ahmed Rizvi’s Alif Aur Noon will always make the list.

By Omair Alavi

Dial H for Hitchcock

The name Alfred Hitchcock will always come up whenever a list of best directors of all time is compiled; however, not much is known about the British director’s earlier works or the films that contributed most to his met

By Omair Alavi

Understanding Clint Eastwood, the director

Ever wonder what makes a successful filmmaker great and achieve the status of being legendary in his lifetime? Follow Clint Eastwood’s iconic journey as a director through Bernard Benoliel’s Masters of Cinema: Clint East

By Omair Alavi

Masters of Cinema - Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg may not say much but his work speaks for itself; he’s not even on the cover of his own book, which in fact has a portrait of ET, one of the most ground breaking characters ever created in cinema. The dir

By Omair Alavi

Cracking the code

At the time of writing this review, Bollywood was in the middle of two Ayushmann Khurrana films - Andhadhun that was released last week and Badhaai Ho that would be releasing the next week. The actor is considered to be

By Omair Alavi

Taking a trip down memory lane

The names Marty McFly and Doc Brown are as important to time travel as Issac Newton is to gravity and Neil Armstrong is to moon landing. In Caseen Gaines’ We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy

By Omair Alavi

Reliving the magnum opus

There is no bigger film in Indian film history than K. Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam and if you don’t believe it, you will turn into a believer after reading Shakil Warsi’s Mughal-e-Azam: An Epic of Eternal Love. The book describ

By Omair Alavi