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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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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POLITICS: THE BRUTALITY WOMEN FACE IN INDIA

"Exposing the Brutality Against Women in India: A Heart-Wrenching Account of Systemic Failures, Rising Violence, and the Dim Rays of Hope Amids...

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MOVIES: HER JOURNEY OF CRAFTING CINEMA

Rosy Bora reflects on her path from assistant director to filmmaker, exploring the emotional depths of her latest film and the challenges of ba...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: UNLIKELY BONDS

"Before Life After Death" explores the struggles of a young pregnant woman and a grieving gynecologist in Singapore. It sheds light on societal...

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