Tirthankar Mitra Even at the risk of uttering a cliché, filmmaker Shyam Benegal was in a class of his own. A path-breaker, he took his audience to places where they had never been before. And…
Bollywood continued to witness high and low points in 2024. While some superstars failed to deliver at the Box Office, the youngsters won the hearts of their fans and established their strong presence in the…
Bollywood’s celebrated director Imtiaz Ali is one of the four filmmakers who contributed to the making of My Melbourne, an anthology of four stories about sexuality, gender, disability and race which was screened at the…
Anasuya Sengupta, who earned the best actress award at the Cannes 2024 for her role in Bulgarian filmmaker Konstantin Bojanov’s The Shameless, was joined by her co-star Omara from the Hindi film at the 30th…
Raj Kapoor’s hundredth birthday fell on 14 December this year and to celebrate the auteur’s centenary a nationwide retrospective of his ten iconic films will be screened from December 13 to 15. Raj Kapoor remains…
After being rejected four times by the National School of Drama, Manoj Bajpayee says he developed a Dronacharya-Eklavya relationship with the premier acting institute because he considered it an absentee mentor that shaped his success.…
Shoojit Sircar, known for films like Vicky Donor, Madras Cafe, Piku, October, Sardar Udham et al, narrates his friend’s successful battle with cancer in I Want to Talk featuring Abhishek Bachchan. In a recent chat…
Things seemingly old are finding a new life in recent times, be it in vinyl records, retro dresses, or re-released films Bollywood from the Sixties, giving an intriguing glimpse of the consumers’ taste, observes Ranjita…
Filmmaker Rahul Dholakia says his upcoming film “Agni” was a story waiting to be told and he hopes that the movie inspires new respect for firefighters, who put their lives on the line to save…
Actor Saiyami Kher said she is often asked by people in the film industry to be “out there” on social media, a piece of advice she finds difficult to follow. Kher, known for work in…
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