We are today far removed from the days when documentaries were seen as works that projected or reflected the ‘objective …
Director’s Note: Selfies With Siri
The Covid-19 lockdown has triggered different responses from different people. Filmmakers like everyone else, too, have been left with no …
Director’s Note: Lohit Diary
In January this year, I work up to the pleasant news that announced the Padma Shri being bestowed on Satyanarayana …
Bunnu K. Endo Maye
Broadly speaking there are, perhaps, two types of cinema/films. The first variety, also the dominant one, is a kind of …
Director’s Note: Bunnu K. Endo Maye
It is now more than two and a half decades since I graduated from the Film & Television Institute of …
The Unbearable Being Of Lightness
A film on a suicide note, a shopping area and a few gazes… The Unbearable Being of Lightness starts with …
Haal-E-Kangaal
When two filmmakers meet after fifteen years, and one of them narrates a script to the other, they find the past catches up …
BV Karanth – Baba
At a very young age BV Karanth ran away from his house in Babukodi village near Mangalore in Karnataka, South …
Putaani Party
Putaani Party won the National award for the Best Children’s Film of 2009. The film is shot in Dharwad, Karnataka and …
Director’s Note: Putaani Party
A Gram Panchayat or a village governing body in rural India facilitates the formation of the Makkala Samiti or Children’s …