Powerful People

I will always be an art filmmaker - Sanal Kumar Sasidharan

Cinema in the time of spiralling budgets is not his scene. Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, the 41-year-old outspoken director of Sexy Durga (censored to S Durga) has just wrapped up h...

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Experiments with Storytelling: Meet Anuraadha Tewari

In a freewheeling conversation, Anuraadha Tewari, screenwriter of films like Rahul, Fashion, Jail and Heroine, tells Vinta Nanda about all that has gone on in her life between...

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Director's Kut

“If an actor’s film succeeds, he becomes a star.” – Sudhir MishraIn this telephonic talk with JYOTHI VENKATESH, the maverick filmmaker SUDHIR MISHRA ta...

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Interview with the Man of the Wild, Mike Pandey

“If Salman Khan agrees, I can make a documentary film on how important it is to save tigers called ‘Tiger Zinda Rahega’”, says MIKE PANDEY. Mike Pandey...

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Meet the ‘Actor’ in Director Goutam Ghose

“I do not desire to act at all, though I agreed to act in Majidi's film ‘Beyond the Clouds’”. Goutam Ghose tells Jyothi Venkatesh.The internationally r...

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Nostalgia - A rare interview of Mohammad Rafi

The legendary singer Mohammad Rafi's 93rd birth anniversary was held on December 24, 2017. To mark his birth anniversary, in his memory, we carry this interview which was...

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''Theatre has always been my first love''. – Sunil Barve

Veteran actor director Sunil Barve has won several accolades for the various roles he has played throughout his career and many for his role to revive classic Marath...

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Shashi Kapoor - The Actor Without Airs Is No More

Shashi Kapoor, born as Balbir Prithviraj Kapoor, who was adored as the Adonis of Hindi Cinema and hailed as an actor with a global appeal of his own is no more. The embodiment...

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Sanal Kumar Sasidharan: “There is nothing sexy about Durga in my film”.

The firebrand director shot to fame recently when his latest film S Durga was banned from being showcased as part of the Indian Panorama section in the 49th International...

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Abhishek Banerjee and Anmol Ahuja: No Stopping this Casting Duo

“Casting is 65 percent of directing”, said John Frankenheimer, the four-time consecutive Emmy Award winning American film and television director. Casting is a ver...

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THE FANTASTIC 27 DOWN BY AWTAR KRISHNA KAUL

27 Down is a 1974 Hindi film written, directed and produced by Awtar Krishna Kaul starri...

May 28 2023

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BOLLYWOOD AND POLITICS

One’s been listening to viewers of The Kerala Story. The common refrain is, &ldquo...

May 27 2023

A MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE: ARUNBHAI GANDHI

She worked with him for twenty years and he remained a friend till his last days. Saroj ...

May 25 2023