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UTTAM KUMAR: BENGAL’S ETERNAL MAHANAYAK

Forty-six years after Uttam Kumar’s death, Bengal’s Mahanayak remains unmatched. Monojit Lahiri revisits his enduring stard...

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Powerful People

PRATIBHA SUMAN: REFUSING PRESCRIBED BOUNDARIES

From a small-town childhood to theatre, cinema, poetry and cultural activism, Pratibha Suman tells Vinta Nanda how independence shaped ...

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Alternative Entertainment

THIRTEEN DAYS WHEN HUMANITY HELD

At an intimate Mumbai screening of Martin Bourboulon’s 13 Days, 13 Nights, the fall of Kabul became more than history re...

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Festivals

PHULE'S THIRD EYE RECLAIMS RELEVANCE

The Third Eye, Opens Again: Phule's Forgotten Play Speaks Powerfully to Our Times. The dramatized reading of Trutya Ratna ...

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Powerful People

NO LIMITS: SAYANI GUPTA BREAKS BOUNDARIES

To make up for a briefer-than-brief conversation with her back in 2022 at the wedding of Richa Chadha-Ali Fazal, over to an insightful ...

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Hollywood

HINDI CINEMA: UNDER HOLLYWOOD’S HAT

Khalid Mohamed recalls the impact (and copycatting) of Hollywood cinema and its gossip journals, which inspired countless ente...

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Bollywood

GOVERNOR REWRITES HISTORY FOR POLITICS

Film critic Arnab Banerjee examines Governor, a politically charged retelling of India's 1991 economic crisis, praising Manoj ...

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Bollywood

A STORY BURIED BENEATH PARTITION'S ASHES

Arnab Banerjee examines Imtiaz Ali's Main Vaapas Aaunga, a poignant Partition-era drama exploring memory, displacemen...

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Alternative Entertainment

OF SHARED DESTINIES AND FRACTURED BONDS

Film critic Saibal Chatterjee reviews Pritha Chakraborty's Phera, a deeply moving father-son drama that explores home...

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Alternative Entertainment

I LIVE INSIDE THE VISUAL WORLD

Utpal Datta speaks with Sri Lankan filmmaker Nadie Wasalamudaliarachchi about her acclaimed debut feature Pantrum Read More