TOLLYWOOD’S GIFTED ACTORS

Bengali cinema and filmmakers, though revered worldwide, still do not draw much attention within India. It may have to do something with the ov...

Dream Interrupted

Film historian Dhruv Somani laments the fact that Muzaffar Ali’s Zooni (1989), with Dimple Kapadia in the title role, co...

Memories of Underdevelopment

Sharad Raj writes, “Many consider Tomas Alea, the greatest filmmaker to emerge from Cuba and Memories of Underdevelopmen...

The Master: A Documentary

Vinta Nanda chats with Khalid Mohamed on the eve of a screening of his documentary film on Shyam Benegal, at the NCPA auditori...

The Big Evolution

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Saif Ali Khan, who has grown from yesterday’s ‘chocolate boy’ to an acto...

From King Lear to The Image Book: Jean-Luc Godard

The year was 1989, a print of Jean-Luc Godard's latest film, King Lear, an adaptation of William Shakespear's well known play was received by t...

Double Whammy

Film historian Dhruv Somani writes on Bollywood’s fascination for double role movies, down the decades.

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Srijit Mukherji: A Filmmaker at a Crossroad

Three releases in a month, a fourth lined up. Is Srijit Mukherji spreading himself too thin? Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri ...

Justice Imprisoned

Humra Quraishi asks: Shahrukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan, has been declared innocent and let off in the drugs-on-cruise case...