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Festivals

PAGE MEETS SCREEN AT WIFF (LIT) MUMBAI

Where Stories Found Their Voice: WIFF LIT Opens Conversations Between Literature and Cinema The first monthly 2026 edition of WIFF Mumbai at SOCIAL Versova brought together a...

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Retroscope

FEARLESS NADIA’S HUNTERWALI FILM PHENOMENON

Film historian and Proffessor Piyush Roy revisits Hunterwali (1935), the groundbreaking Wadia Movietone stunt classic that introduced Fearless Nadia, a female action icon whos...

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Alternative Entertainment

ADAMYA REVIEW BY SAIBAL CHATTERJEE

Writer-director Ranjan Ghosh’s Adamya (The Unbroken) is nothing short of a marvel, writes critic Saibal Chatterjee. Set in the Sunderbans, the political thriller follows...

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Festivals

STORIES TRAVEL FROM PAGE TO SCREEN

The Waterfront Indie Film Festival (WIFF) Mumbai launches its literature vertical with a two-day programme at SOCIAL Versova, bringing authors, playwrights and screenwriters t...

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Powerful People

JOY SENGUPTA: ACTOR WITHOUT COMPROMISE

In a rare, deeply reflective conversation with Khalid Mohamed, actor Joy Sengupta traces his journey across theatre, cinema and television, speaking about artistic integrity, ...

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Festivals

MUMBAI DESIGNER WINS KASHISH POSTER

Mumbai-based designer Pari Nirmal wins the KASHISH 2026 International Poster Design Contest, bringing the festival’s theme “Reflect, Resonate, Rejoice!” to l...

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Gender

WOMEN RESISTING POWER IN INDIA

This Women’s Day, Vinta Nanda looks out for women in India resisting food capitalism, environmental destruction and human rights violations — reminding us that the...

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Alternative Entertainment

SAFAR MEIN SHAHAR: CITY AS CHARACTER

Film critic Utpal Datta explores Mazhar Q. Kamran’s Safar Mein Shahar, examining how Mumbai emerges not merely as a setting but as a living character shaped by memory, m...

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Health

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR

Writer Ranjan Das Gupta reflects on emotional intelligence as a human, ethical and social force. Drawing from personal experience, philosophy and society, he examines how emot...

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Thought Factory

A LAST CALL FOR THE PLANET

In this in-depth conversation with Vinta Nanda, Fr. Kureethadam Joshtrom reflects on ecology as an ethical and spiritual challenge, urging humanity to embrace ecological conve...

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UDTA TEER REVIEW: STAR CAST DISAPPOINTS

Udta Teer, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Sara Ali Khan, attempts to turn Indo-Pakistan...

October 26 2026

TU HAI MERI KIRAN: OBSESSION FAILS TO FLY

Arnab Banerjee reviews Karan Rawal’s Tu Hai Meri Kiran, a science-fiction thriller...

October 25 2026

(NOT) A FORGOTTEN FREEDOM FIGHTER OF GOA

Libby de Liberdade: A Century of Courage, Conscience and Goa’s Freedom explores ce...

October 24 2026