Topic: Indian Cinema

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.

In 'Aparna Sen: A Life in Cinema', Devapriya Sanyal delves into the filmmaker's cinematic world, tracing the evolution of her women protagonists.

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.

Rani Mukerji got ‘offended’ by Kannada film director Prithvi Konanur’s comment on Indian cinema like a nationalist would. But the nation was nowhere in the discussion at the roundtable.

Ray & Mitra created masterpieces like Pather Panchali, Nayak and Devi . Mitra’s lens wove emotions, as seen in the iconic freeze-frames at the end of Charulata.