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BOLLYWOOD FAME, FORGOTTEN STARS, CAUTIONARY TALES

Today Mumbai’s film actors have wised up to the fact that fame and fortune don’t last forever. Several yesteryear doom-laden storie...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: BÉLA TARR, I STRUGGLE TO NEGOTIATE

In this personal tribute by Sharad Raj, the author reflects on Béla Tarr’s cinematic legacy, his...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: TRIUMPH THAT OUTLIVES THE WAR

A reflective, humanist reading of Sriram Raghavan’s Ikkis, Arnab Banerjee examines war beyond valor, locating memory, gr...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: AGE, STILLNESS, CINEMA

The stasis of old age rendered with precise strokes becomes not just a theme but an emotional landscape, where caregiving, memory, and routine ...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN PHANTOM INDIA WAS GHOSTED

Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by the French auteur Malle, which had been ...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: MIRACLE AND ‘THE CURSE’ OF JAI SANTOSHI MAA

Khalid Mohamed looks back at 1975, the year of Sholay and the miraculous success of Jai Santoshi Maa and its aftermath — a cinematic cont...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: JAIDEV COMPOSED, SILENCE SANG ALONG

On Jaidev’s birth anniversary which was two days ago, on 3rd August, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri remembers the uns...

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Movies

MOVIES: POISE WITHOUT EMOTIONAL ENTRY

Billed as a tribute to Rituparno Ghosh, Indradeep Dasgupta’s Grihapravesh does not lack ambition and scale. But the effort shows...

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Festivals

FESTIVALS: THE HERITAGE TRANSPORT MUSEUM, GURGAON

Discover the Heritage Transport Museum in Gurgaon—a vibrant tribute to India’s transport history, where vintage vehicles, Bollywood...

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Retroscope

RETROSPECTIVE: CINEMA, CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME

Exploring Shumona Goel’s experimental cinema through fragmented time, sensory aesthetics, and urban modernity, this analysis connects her...

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