On the special occasion of Culturazzi’s second birthday, we are proud to announce Culturazzi’s first event offline in the form of a feature film screening. The event, set for 7th March 2010 in Bangalore, will see the official offline launch of Culturazzi as an initiative for the first time, and will be followed by the [...]

“Even the music makes me want to kill myself,” said a man a few rows down from me during the closing credits. I laughed; sometimes someone just says it all.
But being depressing is only one of the problems with A Single Man, helmed by fashion designer-turned-director Tom Ford. Watching it, you can see that Ford [...]

We have discussed Kate Bush’s work on Culturazzi before, and here we are again - talking about the eccentric virtuoso from the UK. Kate Bush is an artist for all times, with her mad-hat antics, her spectacular music, her masterful use of language and metaphors. Hounds of Love started it all. Hounds of Love finds [...]

John Schlesinger’s Darling is the pure embodiment of swinging London in the 60s. In certain respects it plays like a time capsule, capturing and locked in a particular moment in time. In other ways it transcends its period, creating something that remains compelling and engaging, a film that seems at times to step out of [...]

Holding a prism to the twilight sky
As united as the art critics were in lambasting Bikash Bhattacharjee’s work in his early days, in his later years they were as divided in interpreting his work. Because, it’s a common ailment of the common art critic not to rest in peace till he has categorized an artist [...]

On September 11 1999, when the first reports of the attack on the World Trade Centre started pouring in, it seemed too unreal to be true. After the dust settled, the media started rifling through the bookshelves of contemporary extreme fiction to find parallels. It turned out, none of their nightmarish plotlines could come close [...]

What if you had a passion for doing something you were terrible at? Would you make it your life’s work regardless, or would you shove The Dream down under a pile of Get Real? Most people would do the latter. “When I grow up I want to…” says everybody, but hardly anybody actually grows up [...]

Midnight at noon
The most fascinating part of Bikash Bhattacharjee’s journey to the light was that he did not rush towards it like a moth, but became the flame instead. In the early sixties, while Abstract Expressionism spread faster than Jackson Pollock’s paint splatters across the world, Calcutta was no island. Added with the dismal condition [...]

Four stories, each intense and tragic, all connected in some way to relate a singular narrative. Many films are told this way – director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu often constructs his films in this way – but few are as worthy of celebration as Babel. Taking its name from the Tower of Babel, which in the [...]

If you know even a little about the premise of Funny Games - you start dreading what you are going to witness from the first frame itself. This fact alone is a commentary on how violence, and the expectation of violence has seeped into our consciousness - almost to a point where we dread its [...]