Asif

Many experiences have shaped the literary sensibility of the 25-year-old Kashmiri writer and language teacher Asif Tariq, but two stand out for their passive and overt violence. As a standard 7 student at a school in his native Ganderbal area, he submitted a poem in Kashmiri for the school magazine. The editor tore the poem up and, with derision, told him to think of singing as a career. Folk singers are perched at the bottom of the social ladder in Kashmir. PREMIUM Bestselling Kashmiri novelist Asif Tariq…

Malayalam actor Asif Ali is one among many actors from the industry who is known for his love for cars. The actor has a variety of cars in his garage and the actor recently brought home a brand new BMW 7-Series luxury sedan. BMW 7-Series has been in the market for years and it has been a popular choice among celebrities and businessmen in the country. This luxury sedan has even been used by many politicians too. The actor has picked up the diesel 730 Ld M Sport variant of the flagship sedan. Also read: 10 DC Design…

Asif Kapadia returns with something unlike his previous acclaimed films … but maybe not utterly unlike. Kapadia has become known for intense documentary studies of agonised public figures including Ayrton Senna, Amy Winehouse and Diego Maradona, for whom the glare of attention, and the claustrophobic crush of public adulation, was a kind of addictive ordeal. There are points of similarity in this new, fascinating and perplexingly ambiguous film, something without a clear story, but which admits of any number of…

In the opening scene of Creature, a new film based on an English National Ballet production at Sadler’s Wells two years ago, a man appears out of nowhere, writhing, squirming, twitching. He is not in agony, but suffering from something possibly worse: bewilderment. When he walks, he loses his footing. It’s a ballet turned upside down; instead of rising to the air in an elegant saute, the dancer flounders uncomfortably on the ground. Creature, as the nameless protagonist is known, has been transplanted to an entirely…

Land Rover Defender made a comeback in its new avatar few years ago. Defender has always been portrayed as a rugged looking hard core off-road machine and the new generation Defender is no different from it. The only difference is that, it is now a lot more technologically advanced and offers a luxurious cabin. This is one of the reason, why it has become a popular choice among many Indian celebrities. Malayalam actor Asif Ali is the latest to join the Land Rover Defender family. He recently took the delivery of his…

The British film-maker Asif Kapadia grew up in north London and established himself with his 2001 debut The Warrior. In 2010 he made the documentary Senna, about F1 racing driver Ayrton Senna. It was followed by the Oscar-winning Amy Winehouse portrait Amy (2015) and Diego Maradona (2019). Kapadia’s television work includes documentary series The Me You Can’t See, 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything and crime drama Mindhunter. This month he is guest curator at Sheffield DocFest.These days you’re best known as a…