Box Office bleeding: The Empty Screens Syndrome

The ticket window for Bollywood films has been seeing a continual slump for the last three years. It’s basically because of lack of good content, originality, scripts...

Panel Including Shonda Rhimes Address Film/TV's 'Unconscious Bias'

The top entertainment figures filling the stage at the Writers Guild Theatre came from wildly diverse areas. One was an Oscar-winning actress, another was an Oscar-winning ...

SAAS BAHU AND TRADITION

??India lives in her villages,? is a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. ?This isn't the exact quote, though. Gandhiji actually wrote, ?India is not Calcutta and Bombay. In...

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...

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...

SONY, THIS WEEKEND

The weekend on Sony Entertainment Television was marked by thrills courtesy Adaalat and CID; and reflection thanks to Bhanwar.

Team Adaalat went to the Andaman Isla...

WHEN THEATRE MARRIES CINEMA

As I sat watching a CinePlay screening of the play sometimes, in a preview theatre, I was tad perplexed. Am I watching a play or am I watching a movie? Some months back, I ...

Women’s Day– Three Key Words For The Year

By Augustine Veliath

On this International Women’s Day I have a sense of accomplishment.

I was part of an event Elevate 2015 in Mum...