Crime Drama, Women and Claude Chabrol!

Writes Vandana Kumar, “No one takes you away from one-dimensional morality while trying to fathom his women charact...

The Human Voice

Khalid Mohamed, who was commissioned to write the official autobiography of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997)...

A Sip of Georgia

Vandana Kumar reminisces about her visit to Georgia where she discovered that it is the country where wine originated. Unlike in France, which has a tradit...

100 years of Sayed Haider Raza

Teesta Bhandare explores the art of Raza through the lens of the global avant garde.

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Our Film Festivals: Tamashas or reality checks

Monojit Lahiri investigates whether our film festivals are arty time-pass or educative game changers.  <...

Kitu Gidwani: Distinctly Yours!

Aparajita Krishna flashbacks and forward with the life and times of Kitu Gidwani – an actor with, perhaps, the most well...

Jhappi-pappi and all

Farrukh Dhondy recalls the Bhartiya Janta Party’s election victory of 2014, which he watched unfold on television when h...

Evening Shadows wins at Yatha Katha film festival

Sridhar Rangayan’s Gulabi Aaina and Evening Shadows to screen at Hyderabad Queer Film Festival

Sridhar Rangayan’s feature film Evening ...

Claude Chabrol and The Poetics of Murder

My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’, La Nouvelle Vague, was through Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978). M...