India is a movie-crazy country. We celebrate them with sheer delight, dump them heartlessly, adore movie stars, praying for them and cursing them like our own. Well, that’s India! Parth Pandya talks about what cinema means to this country, with particular emphasis on Hindi cinema.
Amrita Sarkar recreates the emotions and expressions that grip us when we watch horror movies, through a painting.
In the world of full-length feature films and interminably long saas-bahu dramas, we have lost the beauty and brilliance that telefilms can bring to our television-watching experience. Sandhya Ramachandran on telefilms and why we need them back.
Ever wanted to enjoy the thrill of seeing a photograph you clicked like a frame from a movie? It’s not an uphill task, really. It takes only a bit of photo processing to do it as Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy explains through a simple tutorial and some of his processed photographs. Read on.
Nikolai is a graduate student and a willing participant in an experiment for cognitive science. But ‘plugging in’ periodically for the experiment makes him feel a strange kind of happiness and pleasure – and he doesn’t know why. Kicking off Spark’s new ‘Story Blocks’ series, Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty writes a multi-part series ‘Brain Back-up,’ with more episodes in upcoming issues.
What does it mean to watch a different, beautiful take on your favourite movie? Vani Viswanathan had one such experience recently watching The Lion King’s musical adaptation and tells you how it felt.
Srikanth Suresh Kumar unravels the music behind movies, sharing his personal thoughts and some of his favourite tracks. For once, have music ringing in your ears with the help of words! Read on.
When one thinks of Harry Potter, the acclaimed wizard boy from J.K.Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series, the mind effortlessly conjures the image of a certain bespectacled, serious-looking boy, thanks to the books having been given a visual form through seven brilliant movies. Varsha Sreenivasan writes an interesting conversation featuring Harry and a certain ‘Curious Spark’ who is an excited, curious and die-hard fan of Harry Potter.
Moving images make up a movie. Having said that, how can we forget its precedent – the still images? Sandhya Ramachandran pays a tribute to the photographs through a poem.