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Alternative Entertainment

AAKHRI RIDE: MUMBAI AFTER DARK

Arnab Banerjee reviews Aakhri Ride, a Mumbai-set short that blends urban noir, dark comedy and supernatural horror while tracing a migrant driver’s d...

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Bollywood

TOXIC REVIEW: AMBITION WITHOUT ARRIVAL

Dr Piyush Roy examines Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups, exploring Geetu Mohandas and Yash’s visually ambitious gangste...

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Kaleidoscope

STUDENT CITY SEASON TWO BEGINS

Dr. Piyush Roy’s Student City returns with Season 2, following Avi and Rahul through friendship, loneliness, campus life...

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Retroscope

ANIRBAN: CINEMA BEYOND DEATH'S SILENCE

Forty-five years after its release, Bhabendra Nath Saikia's Anirban remains an overlooked cinematic masterpiece. Utpal Datta explores i...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: GHATAK, JUNG, BRECHT & PARTITION

In this profound essay, writer and filmmaker Sharad Raj explores how Ritwik Ghatak merged Marxism, Jungian ps...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: A DIP INTO THE RIVER OF FEMALE DESIRE

Writer-director Nidhi Saxena’s second film, Secret of a Mountain Serpent, is an exquisite piece of cinema that blurs the line between the...

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Festivals

FESTIVALS: A MAGICAL CELEBRATION OF ART AND HOPE

An enchanting sundowner hosted by Nisha JamVwal, showcasing Lata Balakrishna’s evocative art, celebrated the power of creativity and hope...

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Business and Politics

POLITICS: THE BRUTALITY OF BULLDOZING HOMES

"A stark exploration of the systemic bias and brutality in India’s use of bulldozing homes, revealing the deep-seated political and relig...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: PHAS GAYA SYSYPHUS IS TRUE INDEPENDENT EXPRESSION

Saumesh Bangera’s cinema is a perfect manifestation of the phenomenon of democratisation of filmmaking since it got morphed into the digi...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: CRAFTSMANSHIP AND FORM

Towards the non-bourgeoise tales from screen and stage: Amar Singh Chamkila and Lavani ke Rang are explored here by filmmaker Sharad Ra...

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