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Alternative Entertainment

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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TV

TELEVISION: HOW I MET SATYAM, TRULY

A moving, intimate remembrance by Sharad Raj of writer Satyam Tripathi—his brilliance, arrogance, tende...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: TALE OF A CRIME THAT CUTS DEEP

A gripping Saudi thriller that uses the framework of a desert murder mystery to expose the deeper anxieties, silences, and societal constraints...

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Thought Factory

THOUGHT FACTORY: DEATH OF THE WORKING CLASS HERO

Khalid Mohamed analyses the slow disappearance of the working-class protagonist from Hindi cinema, exploring how shifting audi...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: DISCOVERING JEWELS AMONG THE JUNKPILE

Exhausted by the excessive violence, toxic masculinity and crass comedies of pan-Asian and global cinema, Khalid Mohamed share...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF HINDI CINEMA

Those forgotten B-grade movie divas of yesteryear: Khalid Mohamed recalls Indira ‘Billi’, Chitra and Naqi Jehan, j...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: THIS WEEK, TWO WORLDS COLLIDE

This week in Indian cinema, two films explore love across divides—Dhadak 2 confronts caste and heartbreak with sober sincerity, ...

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Trending

TRENDING: PRIDE COMBATS PREJUDICE

Khalid Mohamed assesses a clutch of shorts and feature films on same-gender sexuality and transgender lives, released on strea...

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Retroscope

RETROSCOPE: THIRTY YEARS AFTER...TIME FLIES

  Khalid Mohamed revisits Bandit Queen (1994), Shekhar Kapur’s film on the dacoit leader Phoo...

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Gender

GENDER: ALL ABOUT THE PATRIARCHAL PUSHBACK

A double-edged narrative: how the Sonam-Raja murder and Deepika Padukone's casting row reveal media bias, caste patriarchy, and the urgent need...

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