Can't Actors Show Creativity Without Cigarettes?

The film industry’s refusal to carry anti-tobacco health spots and warnings during films in cinema screens has upset health experts. Earlier this week, the Film and T...

BOLD, BUT NOT BEAUTIFUL

Three months into 2015, two television channels are show casing varied fare. They have taken it on themselves to give viewers a mix of shows ? from the melodramatic soaps t...

NOW ART FITS TO COLUMNS OF EXCEL SHEETS!

In the last week I happened to spend an evening with relatives who were visiting Mumbai from Jammu; my hometown and the place I took birth in. It’s a no-brainer that ...

TRADITION - BOON OR BANE

Tradition is a word that almost all Indians have grown up hearing. "India is a land of tradition", "our traditions date back to the earliest forms of civilisation", are jus...

NFDC Film Bazaar 2015 Invites Submissions for Three Labs: Screenwriters Lab, Romance Screenwriter’s Lab, and the newly introduced Children’s Screenwriter’s Lab

~The deadline for the submission of the application is April 15~

Mumbai, April 6, 2015: NFDC Film Bazaar 2015 is calling for entri...

After Winning Two Awards At Berlinale, Nagesh Kukunoor’s Next, Dhanak To Be Screened At TIFF And IFFLA

Mumbai, April 2015: After bagging two awards at the 65^th Berlin International Film Festival, Nagesh Kukunoor’s Dhanak (Rainbow) to be scre...

Out With The Old…?

Our society has been in a constant flux for change. There is a greater adaptation afoot in a nation like India because of its many contradictions, complexities and voices. ...

March Marches On

“Beware the ides of March,” warned the Soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. While a tragedy of such terrible proportions did not befall the screen, ...

From The Archive, 31 March 1995: First Ozone Hole Found Over Arctic

Meteorologists and atmospheric chemists have watched in alarm as a similarly explosive mixture to the Antarctic vortex has been assembled in the Arctic For the first time, ...