ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: OF THAT HUMAN FACTOR

Currently, the boom in Artificial Intelligence has been viewed with mounting dread or embraced warmly as a technological revolution in image-ma...

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 ...

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...

THOUGHT FACTORY: FILMS. AUDIENCES. FILM CRITICS.

India, the world’s largest film-producing nation, thrives on cinema and media, yet its film critics remain undervalued. Monojit Lahiri investigates t...

TRENDING: SCANDAL THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

Khalid Mohamed unspools the shocking adulterous affair in the extra-conservative era of post-independence India, and Europe, b...

BOLLYWOOD: ‘ALL I NEED IS WOR

Rehana Sultan, the sensation of the 1970s following Chetna and National Best Actress Award winner for Dastak, in conversation...

RETROSCOPE: OF MEENA KUMARI & DREAMS OF HOLLYWOOD

Khalid Mohamed’s unpublished conversation with the late Saawan Kumar Tak, who despite his mega-hit movi...

BOLLYWOOD: WHEN FAME MEETS REAL TALENT

Actors Long to Be Stars. Stars Yearn to Be Actors — Can the Twain Ever Meet?

Monoji...