Afternoon Is The New Prime Time

Doordarshan has already been there and done that. In the mid-90s, the mandarins at Mandi House came up with an unprecedented move to create an Afternoon Prime Time, wherein...

Five Film Festivals That Should Be On Every Movie Buff's Radar

The Tribeca Film Festival kicked off yesterday (April 19), bringing a smorgasbord of indie films, discussion panels, TV shows, live podcasts, and master classes to Downtown...

What's In Store At This Years Cannes Film Festival

The lineup at each year’s Cannes Film Festival typically includes a few surprise entries. But the announcement of this year’s offerings brought the first, grudg...

Repeats, Ad Nauseum

With the Dalai Lama’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh doing the news rounds, there can be no better a time than this for Epic Channel to telecast the first two episodes of...

Amitabh Bachchan Makes An Important Point About Rape Victim-Blaming, In TV Show

In a two-minute prologue to TV show Kya Qusoor Hai Amla Ka, Amitabh Bachchan poses some hard-hitting questions to society. "Rape sirf rapist hi nahin karta. Hum jaise log b...

Telling Tall Tales

World Storytelling Day (March 20) was a reminder that the art of storytelling is slowly but surely disappearing. Now television attracts the young and sidelined mothers and...

Poojita Chowdhury: The Accidental Filmmaker

Interview With Poojita Chowdhury

Our creative director, Shiv Bhalla caught up with Poojita Chowdhury, whose film ‘Gender Bender’ has been making waves. ...

MTV: Bold, Sensitive

In 1995, Ashish Balram Nagpal, an art connoisseur, made a film called Adha Adhura which was way too progressive. In the film, Ashish Balram Nagpal, a billionaire businessma...

Shonda Rhimes: Never Afraid To Tell Abortion Stories

Shonda Rhimes isn't a doctor. She doesn't even play one on TV (though, at this point, she probably knows more about obscure diseases than your internist). But Rhimes, who h...