Sooni Taraporevala’s film Little Zizou — which can be watched for free these days on Hulu — always makes me yearn for my first true love: Bombay. Because Little Zizou represents the perfect template of the city known to outsiders as Mumbai but beloved by insiders forever as Bombay, the craziest, most chaotically beautiful place… Continue reading The Best Things in Life Are Free: Little Zizou on Hulu
Month: May 2013
How Sohrab Modi won over Prithviraj Kapoor
In this special series, we re-visit great Hindi film classics. Today, we look back at Prithviraj Kapoor and Sohrab Modi’s 1941 film Sikander. By Sukanya Verma | Rediff Sikander ne Porous se ki thi ladayi, jo ki thi ladayi, toh main kya karoon?’ shrugged Mohan Choti in a catchy song from Anpadh. If only he… Continue reading How Sohrab Modi won over Prithviraj Kapoor
Adi Kanga: Visionary who helped create New Mumbai
A week before Adi Kanga died he could not remember what he had for breakfast, but he could explain Pythagoras’ theorem to you. He was an all-rounder: a mathematician, an imaginative artist and one among few others who had planned Navi (New) Mumbai. In the late 1960s a group of friends including Kanga, a civil… Continue reading Adi Kanga: Visionary who helped create New Mumbai
