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A Requiem For An Intent Inquiry

By Ramchandra PN, November 26, 2021 8:08 amNovember 30, 2021

Dilip Paanwala used to run a small cigarette shop next to the canteen at the Film and TV Institute of …

Book Review: Conversations With Waheeda Rehman

By Ranjan Das, November 18, 2021 8:34 amNovember 18, 2021

“Bound scripts were uncommon in the early days…. Many times, the scene was given to us on the day of …

An Actor’s Actor: Book Excerpt

By Hanif Zaveri and Sumant Batra, November 9, 2021 10:15 amNovember 9, 2021

An Actor’s Actor: The Authorized Biography Of Sanjeev Kumar highlights the life and times of one of Indian cinema’s greatest …

All Art Is Quite Useless: Misguided Morality And Masala Movies

By Megha Agarwal, September 24, 2021 12:53 pmSeptember 24, 2021

Oscar Wilde was notorious in his time for several reasons, but particularly his sexuality (for which he was imprisoned), his …

Revisiting Samskara…

By Ramchandra PN, June 10, 2021 4:23 pmJune 10, 2021

The very mention of Samskara (Funeral Rites) invariably invokes the name of its late writer, the firebrand UR Ananthamurthy. So …

Director’s Note: Adhura

By Arjun Lal, May 15, 2021 9:50 amMay 19, 2021

It was March of 2019. I had just completed shooting my first-year final film at the Prague Film School (PFS). …

Personally Yours, Satyajit Ray

By Shoma A Chatterji, May 2, 2021 8:26 amMay 2, 2021

Like most people, my cinematic journey of filmmaker Satyajit Ray began with the first of his now immortal Apu trilogy, …

Sumitra Bhave – A Tribute

By Shoma A Chatterji, April 24, 2021 9:19 amApril 24, 2021

I first met Sumitra Bhave at the Hyderabad Filmotsav in 1986 when she presented her short film Bai (1985), a …

Upperstall’s Top 20 Indian Films

By Team Upperstall, December 20, 2020 10:40 amJuly 2, 2021

On July 7, 2020 our labour of love, Upperstall.com turned 20. Stating the obvious, it has been a stupendous journey …

Short Takes: 3 By Tourneur

By Karan Bali, December 7, 2020 11:26 amJuly 27, 2022

Director Jacques Tourneur (1904-1977) will always be remembered for helming one of the greatest film noirs of all time, Out …

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