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Hollywood

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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Powerful People

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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Gender

INDIA’S IDENTITY DEBATE MEETS CULTURE

When Identity Is Policed and Culture Is Celebrated: India’s Strange Inflection Point. As India debates identity through new legislation, ...

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Bollywood

THE CURIOUS CASE OF PRIYADARSHAN

He’s back in the news. After a prolonged hiatus, the essentially South Indian filmmaker is returning to the arena of Bollywood cinema, wi...

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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...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: DOING IT MY WAY

Lately, it’s been raining awards and accolades on the path-breaking multi-media achiever. And she has preserved a child-like persona, ope...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: DEATH OF THE WORKING CLASS HERO

Khalid Mohamed analyses the slow disappearance of the working-class protagonist from Hindi cinema, exploring how shifting audi...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: FILMS. AUDIENCES. FILM CRITICS.

India, the world’s largest film-producing nation, thrives on cinema and media, yet its film critics remain undervalued. Monojit Lahiri investigates t...

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Powerful People

POWERFUL PEOPLE: PREITY ZINTA ON DOING IT HER OWN WAY

Khalid Mohamed’s throwback to a conversation with the iron-willed Preity Zinta, who’s set to return to the movies ...

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Festivals

FESTIVALS: ARE THE NATIONAL AWARDS LOSING THEIR WAY?

Once upon a time the most glamorous, eagerly-awaited and coveted award was Filmfare founded in 1954, but today the National Awards’ credi...

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