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Alternative Entertainment

ANKUR: THE SAPLING OF PARALLEL HINDI CINEMA

“In the early 1970s, a new class of population was emerging in India, which had started to get rid of the legacy of the past and reboot t...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD’S AMAZING CHUMMA CHUMMA STORY: FROM OOOIMAA TO GO-BABY-GO!

A caress given with lips, key to paradise, the blossom of love, the first discharge of a purely, physical, sexual sensation, the first crisis o...

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Movies

I MAKE REGIONAL CINEMA THAT RESONATES WITH GLOBAL AUDIENCES: DISHA BHARDWAJ

Vinta Nanda gets in conversation with Disha Bhardwaj, a young filmmaker, whose first film Chupi Roh is selected to screen at t...

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Thought Factory

HRISHIKESH MUKHERJEE: THE EVERYMAN FILMMAKER

Hrishikesh Mukherjee passed away at the age of 83 on 27th August 2006. On his 17th death anniversary Shantanu Ray...

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Gender

STRAW DOGS: POETICS OF VIOLENCE OR MISOGYNY?

Based on a novel by Gordon Williams – ‘The Siege of Trencher’s Farm’, it was also my first exposure and my starting poi...

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Alternative Entertainment

MANI KAUL’S ICONOCLASTIC USKI ROTI

This film is a juxtaposition of slow-moving close-ups and wide shots layered with lots of silence and interspersed with a few monotonous dialog...

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Powerful People

Dr SUCHETAN PRADHAN: THE CULTURE BEHIND DENTISTRY

I am in conversation with one of India’s best known practicing dentists: an implant aesthetic and laser dentist, writes Aparajita...

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Bollywood

REMEMBERING BOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST STAR-ACTOR OF HER GENERATION: SRIDEVI

On the occasion of her sixtieth birthday, 13th August, Monojit Lahiri salutes the memory of the matchless and timeless Ms Hawa...

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Festivals

RAJA BRO: FILM ABOUT INDIAN TRANS MAN IS MAKING WAVES

The film is being appreciated for its honest and sensitive portrayal of Merlin, a trans man living in Kalyan. Director Sridhar Rangayan to pres...

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Alternative Entertainment

THE ADDA OF GANGA VIHAR!

Aparajita Krishna dives deep to the not so long history of Ganga Vihar and what it holds together as a past unimaginable and r...

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