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THE FIRST FILM: CINEMA, FREEDOM, DESIRE

Cinema transforms the Confined World By Utpal Datta. In Piyush Thakur’s award-winning short, a young girl’s yearni...

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SANJIB SABHAPANDIT: PURPOSE-DRIVEN CINEMA

Sanjib Sabhapandit is in conversation with Utpal Datta about Assamese cinema, purpose-driven filmmaking, cultural identity, audience re...

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NO LIMITS: SAYANI GUPTA BREAKS BOUNDARIES

To make up for a briefer-than-brief conversation with her back in 2022 at the wedding of Richa Chadha-Ali Fazal, over to an insightful ...

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HINDI CINEMA: UNDER HOLLYWOOD’S HAT

Khalid Mohamed recalls the impact (and copycatting) of Hollywood cinema and its gossip journals, which inspired countless ente...

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PURSUIT OF TRUTH: KANWALJIT SINGH UNFINISHED

In a reflective conversation with Vinta Nanda, veteran actor Kanwaljit Singh revisits his journey from Saharanpur to FTII, cin...

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AN ACTOR PREPARES: ASEEM HATTANGADI

A multi-tasker, he is a theatre, film and web series actor. Son of the celebrated actor Rohini Hattangadi and the late theatre director Jayadev...

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THE ETERNAL CRISES OF FILM SCHOOLS

From Argentina to India, film schools face political pressure, privatization threats, and ideological control. Sharad Raj refl...

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LAST WEEK’S ARTS, CINEMA AND CULTURE PULSE

From Berlinale’s politically charged opening to India’s expanding global presence, theatre movements, advertising crossovers and ne...

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POWERFUL PEOPLE: THOSE BASIC VISUAL INSTINCTS

Ravi K. Chandran, among the A-list of superstar technicians of Hindi and south Indian language cinema, has excelled in his met...

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TELEVISION: HOW I MET SATYAM, TRULY

A moving, intimate remembrance by Sharad Raj of writer Satyam Tripathi—his brilliance, arrogance, tende...

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