One of America’s most revered and feared critics Roger Ebert is no more. He continued to write his influential review till the very end although he had lost his voice to cancer. This, our own Bollywood’s maverick actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui discovered when he flew down to Ebert’s home-town Illinois the <em>Eberfest</em> to screen Prashant Bhargava's ebullient <em>Patang</em> (a <em>Kai Po Che</em> without the formulistic bromance) at Roger Ebert’s annual film festival in April 2012.

<strong>Sudhir Mishra: </strong> “Roger Ebert was one of the critics who taught me how to look at cinema and to see the director inside the film and the director’s vision or the lack of it.”