Rupak Bardhan Roy

Alfred Hitchcock made fear a sophisticated form of entertainment. Above, James Stewart in Rear Window (1954) and Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959). Let us begin where discussions of this kind usually begin, the market. Leaving thriller novels and short stories aside, market analyses of audiovisual thrillers suggest that the global OTT and theatrical market was projected to reach $10 billion by 2026. Although the United States remains its largest consumer, the vast Asia-Pacific...

Separated by 55 years and radically different philosophies, Satyajit Ray and Christopher Nolan found remarkably similar cinematic ways to make the elusive nature of time visible. A still from Ray's biting classic Mahapurush (1965) “Gentlemen think alike!” is the proverb that resonated in connection to what Nolan recently said while praising Satyajit Ray's work; and with cinema’s timeless exploration of scientific and philosophical concepts. Let me direct you to a piece of dialogue: “Kaal...

As the economics and ecology of hyperscale AI begin to crack, Apple’s delayed strategy appears remarkably prescient. Apple’s WWDC 2026 delivered one unmistakable message: it has rebuilt its entire software and device ecosystem around Apple Intelligence. Siri AI has been re‑engineered from the ground up with on‑device reasoning, Private Cloud Compute now anchors Apple’s hybrid AI architecture, macOS and iOS have become AI‑native operating systems, and developers received new agentic frameworks...