INDIAN FARMERS BLINDSIDED BY CINEMA

Khalid Mohamed examines the deepening crisis faced by India’s farmers and how their ongoing struggles are overshadowed b...

POWERFUL PEOPLE: NOT A MAN’S WORLD ANYMORE

Huma Qureshi, who believes that Mumbai’s show business isn’t a man’s exclusive world anymore, has belted out...

MOVIES: SUCH A FALL FROM GRACE

Khalid Mohamed, once a cheerleader of Mani Ratnam, is taken aback with Thug Life, the auteur’s fall from grace. “M...

KALEIDOSCOPE: REIMAGINING TAGORE – INTIMACY & IDEOLOGY

A bold theatrical reimagining of Tagore’s Ghare Baire, Ghar Aur Bahar explores the fraught intersections of love, ideol...

BOLLYWOOD: SOME STORIES STAY BURIED

Why a sequel to Zubeidaa can never be made: because truth, memory, and myth blur irreversibly when royalty, cinema, and unresolved grief intert...

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE GENTLE GENIUS

Cinema, at its purest and most soul-stirring, found a devoted servant in Shaji N. Karun. Khalid Mohamed bids farewell to the g...

TAMAS: THE LIGHT OF TAMAS

Aparajita Krishna writes, “35 years after it lit India’s television screen and cinema, I am herei...

PAST IS MY MASTER AND EVENING MY DAWN: VINAY SHUKLA

His film-work has been artistically selective and also across-genres, fairly mainstream, writes Aparajita Krishna.

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Oh, those snakes and ladders

Khalid Mohamed reviews the politics-as-usual drama Madam Chief Minister, is brain-boggled by Qubool Hai 2.0 and finds sol...