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Festivals

Bengal in Bengaluru: The Kolaj Bengal Film Festival

The first edition of the Kolaj Bengali Film Festival was a welcome effort in getting Bengali films a national reach. Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, who was on the jury, writes about ...

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Alternative Entertainment

Deepika, Madhuri, Alia, Vidya, Shefali – Women-centric films explode!

Will the recent whammos unleashed from these female big-hitters trigger more of the same? Monojit Lahiri attempts a checkout.   Gehriayan. Fame Game. Gangubai. Jals...

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Movies

HIT MACHINE

Film historian Dhruv Somani tracks the unique success story of Jeetendra who completed his 80th last week - in a welter of Hindi films made in Bombay and the south. The South...

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Festivals

An Easter Prayer

Happy Easter to all of you! Easter is a celebration of life. Various professionals speak to Monarose Sheila Pereira about their special Easter Prayer.  Over to them&helli...

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Business and Politics

SO MUCH OF DESTRUCTION!

Humra Quraishi revisits 1992 and the demolition of the Babri Masjid then, in context to the bulldozing of property without consideration for the Constitution of India. As I&r...

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Thought Factory

The Defiant Ones

Khalid Mohamed marvels at the bold and timeless writings of the iconic writers Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto, on the behind-the-doors scenes of the Bombay film industr...

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Powerful People

Making Fraaandship with Nupur Asthana

Aparajita Krishna explores love, relationships, friendships, feminism and more in the interview with writer, director Nupur Asthana who’s been setting benchmarks for wom...

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Bollywood

AMITABH BACHCHAN AND THE ANGRY YOUNG MAN

One of the biggest box-office failures of the superstar’s career, Alaap boasts one of his subtlest performances and, arguably, the best musical score in an Amitabh Bachc...

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Alternative Entertainment

THERE CAN NEVER BE ANOTHER… SUCHITRA SEN!

Matchless! Timeless! Deathless! On her 91st Birthday, Monojit Lahiri pays homage to Bengal’s gone but never forgotten, luminous Queen of Hearts!  As a kid who grew...

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Powerful People

That Mughal Touch

Film historian Dhruv Somani, catches up with Akbar Khan, for a conversation about the actor-producer-director’s yesterdays and todays. He may have been out of sight but...

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WHY ARCHIVING CINEMA MATTERS: NEVILLE TULI

A wide-ranging conversation on archives, cinema, and cultural consciousness, where inter...

January 23 2026

SUCHITRA SEN: THE STAR WHO CHOSE SILENCE

On her 12th death anniversary, Monojit Lahiri recalls the mystique, magnetism and unmatc...

January 22 2026

REVIEW: HAPPY PATEL - KHATARNAK JASOOS IS BIG ON INTENT, LIGHT ON LAUGHS

The actor-director’s spy spoof aims for absurdist satire but collapses under stere...

January 21 2026