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A mutiny or a plea for independence
As discussions continue, Farrukh Dhondy remembers writing a script for Ketan Mehta - Rani of Jhansi, which was hijacked of course by those re-writing History. It was probably...
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Aditi Singh revisits the film Mississippi Masala, thirty years after its release, and recalls the metaphors of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’. Mississippi Mas...
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Monojit Lahiri writes about Chidananda Dasgupta - his birth centenary was celebrated through a 2-day event on November 20th and 21st, at Nandan, Kolkata Film Critic, Scholar,...
Read MoreGrusha Kapoor on her Acts!
Aparajita Krishna walks down the road of actor Grusha Kapoor’s life, and career, which started at the young age of 15. Grusha Kapoor is a child of theatre and one who h...
Read MoreMahishasur Marddini: Endless Night…
Filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh speaks to Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri about his soon-to-be-released film… It is instantly intriguing when a director calls his film ‘a letter o...
Read MoreNothing is funny in one India
Humra Quraishi remembers what Zakia Jafry had once said to give context to the violence spreading across India today and why there is silence surrounding it. A country withou...
Read MoreClaude Chabrol and The Poetics of Murder
My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’, La Nouvelle Vague, was through Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978). My admiration of the director gre...
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Legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee passed away on 15 November 2020. To mark the first anniversary, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri writes about a forthcoming book on the thespian, Sou...
Read MoreHinduism, not Hindutva, was Nehru’s idea of India
Let us not be in any illusion. Being complacent basis the belief that there’s any sensitivity left in the discourse would be wrong, writes Humra Quraishi Half truths do...
Read MoreScripting doomsday!
In the last few years, which were bedevilled with ambivalence, ambiguity and plain misunderstandings, statements of people in power or celebrities were deliberately distorted ...
Read MoreOF WOMEN, BY WOMEN….TWO BOOK REVIEWS
Sohaila Kapur reviews Avni Doshi’s First House and Andaleeb Wajid’s Have You...
September 27 2026HAS BOLLYWOOD FORGOTTEN SCREEN LOVE
Today, with crime nationalism, and action calling the shots has love vanished from the s...
September 26 2026EK LAMHA ZINDAGI: LOVE BEYOND BORDERS Juhi Babbar
Soni delivers a remarkable solo performance in Ek Lamha Zindagi, directed by Makrand Des...
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