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Sightless in Bollywood

Film historian Dhruv Somani, recollects the B-town movies dealing with the theme of the sight-impaired. Cinema has always been considered as a powerful medium to reflect our ...

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Sign of the times: Silencing Zillennials

Humra Quraishi expresses anguish at the systematic crushing of dissent among the young generations today. The political climate is turning murkier and also suffocating. It is...

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Tara ra pomp pomp

Khalid Mohamed attends The Big Day weddings, listens in to Martin Scorsese’s docu-interview with Fran Lebovitz and… more. THE BIG DAY (NETFLIX)   Oh oh, ...

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The Iconoclast

Long before Angela Merkel became a messiah for Arab migrants and courted controversy, there was Adolf Hitler who had invoked notions of nationalism, racial purity and German p...

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Exploring the Darker Side

After watching a couple of her films, Vandana Kumar believes, that it couldn’t be merely a coincidence that Isabelle Huppert plays morally ambiguous characters. This le...

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Gender

Awareness Campaign: Gender Based Violence

The Centre for Women Studies, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANNU) Hyderabad, in collaboration with CDPP, Hyderabad, held webinars on 'Awareness Campaign for Eliminat...

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Journey of a Passionate Tale-Spinner

Janaky Sreedharan presents Nabanita Deshmukh, a storyteller who follows a unique process to engage with children. The last I saw her was in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New D...

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Womanpower in khaki

Film historian Dhruv Somani, tracks down the heroines who have portrayed top cops, a domain usually reserved for heroes. Bollywood has largely been about stereotypes, what wi...

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Sign of the times: The Mahatma and the Frontier Gandhi

February 6 was Khan Abdul Ghaffar’s Khan birth anniversary; he was born in 1890 in Utmanzai, Pakistan, writes Humra Quraishi Also, known as the Frontier Gandhi, he play...

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How the war was won

Khalid Mohamed reviews the inexplicably neglected 377 Ab Normal, is zapped by the mega-abrupt Lahore Confidential, and discovers the controversial Bangladeshi film, Doob, with...

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WIFF MUMBAI TALKS CHANGING CINEMA

In the run-up to WIFF Mumbai 2026, The Daily Eye brings you the unmissable conversations...

July 24 2026

THIRTEEN DAYS WHEN HUMANITY HELD

At an intimate Mumbai screening of Martin Bourboulon’s 13 Days, 13 Nights, the fal...

July 24 2026

PHULE'S THIRD EYE RECLAIMS RELEVANCE

The Third Eye, Opens Again: Phule's Forgotten Play Speaks Powerfully to Our Times. The d...

July 23 2026