The Raizada family has been keeping single-screen moviegoing alive in Old Delhi since the Nehru era. Cash registers are still ringing at Delite Cinema.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
Lokah reimagined the tale of the yakshi while Marathi film Dashavatar blended myth and reality to spotlight a community's vulnerable existence in the Konkan region.
Whether helping choreograph, developing characters, or mentoring young talent, Sandhya’s fingerprint was on every part of V Shantaram’s cinematic tapestry.
A Bollywood obit may be premature, but the writing on the billboards is crystal clear. Industry insiders say 2025 is the year to watch for a reinvention.
I was exposed to Shyam Benegal because my parents watched his films with great relish. I'm lucky to have watched films such as ‘Ankur’, ‘Mandi’, and ‘Trikal’ while growing up.
In ‘The State and New Cinema in Contemporary India’, Sudha Tiwari examines the setting up and roles of the Film Finance Corporation and the National Film Development Corporation.
The song ‘Dheere Dheere’, from the Telugu film Devara, fixates on Janhavi Kapoor’s midriff in a most unsavoury way. If this is the pinnacle of ‘pan-Indian’ cinema, it’s hard to stomach.
Bollywood has long exoticised and misrepresented the Northeast. But now, filmmakers and actors have taken matters into their own hands. The Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Jawan gave a small nod of acknowledgment to the often-overlooked region.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Best journalists in India are jobless orworking with independent media or on social media. The worst run national media and the most scherewed write movie reviews or write pro goverment articles.
Lollywood leaves no stone unturned to denigrate Bharat and Sanatana Dharma. Why should we hold back?
And the good news is, we have the facts to return the favour with riba (haram interest).
It is amusing to see that one set of pundits becoming alarmed and screaming when a different movie narrative is getting popular acceptance across the country. This movie should be seen as just, a movie. A well made one at that if people can look beyond politics – which is proven by its box office success.
Excellent commercial movie! (“commercial” being the operative word here). Fulminating over it’s messaging is akin to searching for deeper meaning and nuance in a Jerry Bruckheimer film – in that one has to be a special type of disingenuous clown to do so! The only greater absurdity would be to talk about “creating a popular mood for peace”, at this stage, ie. literally less than 9 months after the Pahalgam attack! I for one can’t help but marvel at the inner workings of such minds! Peace with whom? The people who said Pahalgam was a “false flag”? That said, I sure would like to try some of whatever such sanctimonious peaceniks are consuming!
Finally, a fine journalist turned to mediocrity with an article on cinema… Congratulations Mr Gupta.. Cinema is made by those people based business and art..On based on national agenda..
They could have shown weapons being procured from LeT etc, but in that case there was no justification for Akshay Khanna’s character. This would not have allowed the movie to show the Balloch suffering angle at all. Although, there was creative liberty which betrays logic, but I see that it solved one purpose.
Best journalists in India are jobless orworking with independent media or on social media. The worst run national media and the most scherewed write movie reviews or write pro goverment articles.
Lollywood leaves no stone unturned to denigrate Bharat and Sanatana Dharma. Why should we hold back?
And the good news is, we have the facts to return the favour with riba (haram interest).
It is amusing to see that one set of pundits becoming alarmed and screaming when a different movie narrative is getting popular acceptance across the country. This movie should be seen as just, a movie. A well made one at that if people can look beyond politics – which is proven by its box office success.
Excellent commercial movie! (“commercial” being the operative word here). Fulminating over it’s messaging is akin to searching for deeper meaning and nuance in a Jerry Bruckheimer film – in that one has to be a special type of disingenuous clown to do so! The only greater absurdity would be to talk about “creating a popular mood for peace”, at this stage, ie. literally less than 9 months after the Pahalgam attack! I for one can’t help but marvel at the inner workings of such minds! Peace with whom? The people who said Pahalgam was a “false flag”? That said, I sure would like to try some of whatever such sanctimonious peaceniks are consuming!
Finally, a fine journalist turned to mediocrity with an article on cinema… Congratulations Mr Gupta.. Cinema is made by those people based business and art..On based on national agenda..
Good luck..
Good film, great film. However, creating a popular mood for peace would get my applause.
They could have shown weapons being procured from LeT etc, but in that case there was no justification for Akshay Khanna’s character. This would not have allowed the movie to show the Balloch suffering angle at all. Although, there was creative liberty which betrays logic, but I see that it solved one purpose.