Written over the years, 16 Frames is a collection of 16 critical articles on cinema analyzing the different trends and intertextualising cinema with the other art forms. The short and crisp articles are multilayered to raise the curiosity of the reader and are likely to fascinate her with the originality of the subjects dealt with. As award-winning film critic Shoma A Chatterji comments – ‘the book reads on, like a river, sometimes placid, sometimes turbulent, flowing through the reader’s mind, through the films one has certainly watched and films one has never seen and is never likely to see.’

গত প্রায় দু দশক ধরে সিনেমার ওপর লেখা অমিতাভর বিভিন্ন প্রবন্ধ - কখনো ‘ত্রিবিউট‘, কখনো প্রলম্বিত ‘আলোচনা‘ বা নিছকই বিশেষ কোনো ফিল্মের ‘সমালোচনা‘

Radha and the nine other stories of this collection are urban fables of a third world city. The characters are normal human beings but in many cases they have to stoop low just to survive.

India is a land of diverse cultures and languages. So is her cinema. There are various genres within the Indian cinema which demands a closer look. This book tries to focus on three such genres and reviews ten films falling under each of them.

এই বই ভানহীন। কবিতায় কোথাও নতুন করে শব্দ খোঁজার কারসাজি নেই, আড়াল খোঁজা নেই। সপাট এবং ঋজু।

শ্রীজাত'র কথায় - "অমিতাভ লেখালেখির জগতে নতুন, তার লেখাও, সেই অর্থে বেশ নতুনই।