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:: Movies Plus

WATCH THAT: Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai at a recent function in New Delhi. (AP)

Brother vs Brother

More than 60 years after the founding of Israel, the enormously complex issue of the separation of state and religion continues to divide the country’s citizenry. Israel’s situation is unique — it is a Jewish state and a democracy. Its Declaration of Independence guarantees freedom of religion, a freedom not always implemented to the satisfaction of secular and non-Orthodox Jews.Full story

‘It is the story of a generation in Iran’

When you speak to the Iranian filmmaker Behnam Behzad Boroujeni, whose first feature film Tanha Do Bar Zendegui Mikonim (Before the Burial) was screened at the on-going Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival in New Delhi, you notice how wary he is of slipping into any "controversial" terrain. When you take notes, he looks over, pleading not to put anything that he is talking off the record. He has to go back to his country, he explains.Full story

Looking beyond the WWW

Designyatra 2009 is around the corner. Into its 2009 edition, Kyoorius Designyatra purports to redefine visual communication in India. Full story

 

 

 





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