A scene in our film Mumu Shelley (2021) has Mumu (Pubali Sanyal) drop a vessel of cooked rice on the …
Purab Aur Paschim: Book Excerpt
Purab Aur Paschim showcases villainy in Hindi cinema through an intensive study of four films – Ramanand Sagar’s Ankhen (1968), Manoj …
One-on-One With Shubham
Shubham, a graduate in acting from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, has carved a unique niche …
One-on-One With Arun Nambiar
He is one of the finest sound designers in India today. A graduate of the Film and Television Institute of …
Director’s Note: R For Roshan’s Childhood
We are today far removed from the days when documentaries were seen as works that projected or reflected the ‘objective …
One-on-One With Devashish Makhija: Cheepatakadumpa & Cycle
With an impressively artistic body of various short films and three feature films in his oeuvre, Devashish Makhija is a …
A Requiem For An Intent Inquiry
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
“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
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
Oscar Wilde was notorious in his time for several reasons, but particularly his sexuality (for which he was imprisoned), his …