Festivals

At 38th Mill Valley Film Fest, Gender Is On The Agenda

Hollywood’s new “it girl” may be more collective than individual. From “The Danish Girl” on opening night to “Suffragette” as its clo...

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Salman Khan's 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' Gets Standing Ovation At Busan International Film Festival

After enthralling the audience in India, Salman Khan’s “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” has reportedly impressed an audience of 5,000 people at the Busan International Fi...

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GlobeDocs Film Fest Kicks Off, Shining A Light On The Documentary Form

Boston has been an incubator of the documentary form and home to its influencers since film’s early days. And yet as a region, “we don’t really tell this sto...

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Madison’s First Asian-American Film Festival Kicks Off With Sci-Fi And Thrillers

For his film “Aloha,” writer-director Cameron Crowe wrote a character whose ethnic background was one-quarter Hawaiian and half-Chinese. The actress cast for ...

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6th Jagran Film Festival Extends Lifetime Achievement Award To Shashi Kapoor, Best Actor To Dulal Sarkar And Best Actress To Bhumi Pednekar At The Starry Festival Closing Night

~ Veteran make-up artiste Pandhari Juker honoured with Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema title ~ ~ Dulal Sarkar and the film ‘Chotoder Chobi’ win the Best...

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Special Screenings, Workshops & Celebrities make a cinematic Saturday to remember at 6th Jagran Film Festival

~ Showman Subhash Ghai engages film enthusiasts in a ‘Master Class’ ~ ~ Neil Bhoopalam conducted Q & A for NH10 ~ ~ European film screenings add an exciting ...

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London Film Festival Turns Spotlight On Gender Equality

The BFI London Film Festival opens Oct. 7 with “Suffragette,” the story of the Brit women who fought for equal rights to vote a century ago. It is clear, though, t...

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Kadambari' Wins Best Film Award At Washington South Asian Film Festival

“Kadambari”, a Bengali film centred around Kadambari Devi, sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore with whom he is supposed to have had a close personal relationship ...

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Rajkumar Hirani, Imtiaz Ali, Kalki Kochelin, Kundan Shah, Nilesh Maniyar grace Jagran Film Festival Day 3

~ Much awaited Jagran Shorts unfold the ultimate shot of short films.  Screening of ‘Birdman’ brings Country focus on US ~ Mumbai, September 30, 2015: A...

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YFR Launches Mans’s World, For Gender Equality At 6th Jagran Film Festival

~ The biggest multi-starrer series on the internet ~ What are Parineeti Chopra, Kalki Koechlin, Richa Chadda, Rhea Chakraborty, Bhumi Pednekar, Pritish Nandy, Soni Razdan, Sh...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: LOOKING FOR THE MAHANAYAK

Srijit Mukherji’s Oti Uttam is a film hard to dislike. And no, it’s not just...

April 27 2024

POLITICS: PEOPLE WILL DEFEAT AMIT SHAH

Vinta Nanda spent two days with Sonal Patel and returns to tell us that the Congress Par...

April 26 2024

THOUGHT FACTORY: DISCOVERING MAHARASHTRA'S COOL RETREATS

Beat the Heat: unveiling Maharashtra's chilling hideaways for a refreshing summer escape...

April 25 2024