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Saturday, July 19, 2025
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Off The Cuff with Ajay Bijli

In the latest edition of ThePrint 'Off The Cuff', Ajay Bijli, chairman and managing director, PVR Limited, was in conversation with our Editor-in-Chief Shekhar...

International Space Station will become a movie set for a week. But what about poop and garbage?

At least 45 films about space travel have received Oscar nominations for Best Visual Effects, but in the case of Russian film ‘Challenge’, the visual effects will be real.

Congress MP-led commission threatened to throw Omprakash Mehra off the 4th-floor for Delhi-6

Filmmaker recounts his descent into alcoholism and depression after the first cut of Delhi-6 was declared a commercial flop.

Footpath — the 1953 Dilip Kumar movie that still holds a mirror up to society

Starring Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari, and directed by Zia Sarhadi, Footpath is known for its meaningful and piercing dialogues that are relevant even today almost 7 decades later.

Why Asia’s movie rebound is good news for everyone

Just as in the US, theaters in Asia-Pacific closed thanks to Covid. But the region has shown that worries of streaming services eating into the market share are premature.

Hollywood’s Covid quandary — get back to work & risk infections or delay & lose business

Industry has taken steps to ensure filming is safe, but surge of Covid cases demonstrates progress is fragile. Extreme caution also makes it harder for business to pick up.

Radhika Apte spy flick doesn’t sell sex or fantasy — are Charlie’s Angels days finally gone?

The new Radhika Apte flick, A Call to Spy, is part of a new wave of films that finally realizes women in espionage not just a fantasy, but real-life reality.

All I want for Christmas is a Hollywood blockbuster

Warner Bros. plans to launch all its 2021 movies the same way as Wonder Woman 1984 in the US — both in-cinema and exclusively on HBO Max for 31 days.

Big-screen experience irreplaceable, PVR Cinemas head says as movie halls open across India

In an interview to ThePrint, PVR Cinemas Joint Managing Director Sanjeev Kumar Bijli talks about cinemas opening up after nearly 7 months and how the movie-watching experience will change.

Covid halted film productions, closed cinemas. But movies were in trouble long before

Covid is accelerating the transformation in movie production, distribution & consumption. But even before this, streaming services were having a huge impact on the industry.

On Camera

Socialism hinders India’s industrial growth. We need free enterprise first

‘The tirade against capitalism is wholly unfounded. Capitalism as it has shaped during the past quarter of a century is a far better method of developing the economic resources of any country,’ wrote DN Hosali in 1956.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Joys of Trumplomacy: India & the world are learning US President’s 99 moods and 1 goal

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.