Being awash with films or various web series is one way of keeping busy in these times, but one...
Category - Features
Director’s Note: Bamfaad
I had made a short film titled Jaan Jigar, which won for the Best Director Award at the 2018...
Take 5: Noor Jehan Across the Border
I’ve always maintained that one of the biggest losses to Indian cinema at the time of the...
Dracula In Pakistan: A Gentleman And A Friend
Pakistani cinema lost one of its unsung diamonds on the 21st of March, 2020. Personally, I lost a...
First Person: Body
The image of a naked man in public. That was the starting point of my script for my intended film...
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on Celluloid
Indian filmmakers have generally shied away from making biographical films on national leaders...
Incomplete Films: Rano
In LV Prasad’s Raj Kapoor-Meena Kumari starrer Sharada (1957), lovers Raj Kapoor and Meena...
Attihannu Mattu Kanaja
Attempts being made create a new genre called ‘slow cinema’ could well be unfair to...
Remembering Girish…
It was 1971. Vikas Desai, my ex-husband, and I were completing a film at the Film & Television...
Preview: His Father’s Voice
“It all began looking at the plight of children torn between parents, who can no longer get...