Being awash with films or various web series is one way of keeping busy in these times, but one also …
Director’s Note: Bamfaad
I had made a short film titled Jaan Jigar, which won for the Best Director Award at the 2018 edition …
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 partition in 1947 …
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 friend who …
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 because (i) these films have little or …
Incomplete Films: Rano
In LV Prasad’s Raj Kapoor-Meena Kumari starrer Sharada (1957), lovers Raj Kapoor and Meena Kumari struggle with their relationship after …
Attihannu Mattu Kanaja
Attempts being made create a new genre called ‘slow cinema’ could well be unfair to very movies that are intended …
Remembering Girish…
It was 1971. Vikas Desai, my ex-husband, and I were completing a film at the Film & Television Institute of …
Preview: His Father’s Voice
“It all began looking at the plight of children torn between parents, who can no longer get along and are …