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Festivals

KASHISH 2022: Now Online!

South Asia’s biggest LGBTQ+ film festival is screening 184 films from 53 countries online After a very successful physical edition of the 13th edition of KASHISH Mumbai...

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Bollywood

Walk in, walk out

Film historian Dhruv Somani, writes on Bollywood’s ceaseless dilemma of wasteful changes in the cast of actors because of reasons ranging from so-called date issues, cre...

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Business and Politics

Distorted to Divide

Humra Quraishi comments about the distortion of Indian History and the caste, class and religious divides it seeks to indulge. It was shocking to see Bollywood actor Akshay K...

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Bollywood

Of the People

Khalid Mohamed writes on why he could never attempt a biography or documentary on his mentor and first employer, Basu Chatterji, whose second death anniversary was last week. ...

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Alternative Entertainment

DEVDAS: The Many Incarnations!

Aparajita Krishna visits Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Bengali novel published in 1917, but said to have been written in 1901, which has not only had a very long running...

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Thought Factory

INDIA AT CANNES 2022: RAMP-SHAMP! AIR KISSING AND ALL

It’s déjà vu time, one more time in the world’s most prestigious and revered film fest. Monojit Lahiri wonders why the world’s largest producer...

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Business and Politics

Justice Imprisoned

Humra Quraishi asks: Shahrukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan, has been declared innocent and let off in the drugs-on-cruise case, but does the story end here?  No, it can&...

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Bollywood

Touch of Class

As Dimple Kapadia’s birthday approaches on June 8, film historian Dhruv Somani tracks how she has made strong fashion statements over the decades. Her beautiful eyes an...

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Powerful People

SOHAILA KAPUR: The Person & Her Legacy!

Sohaila Kapur belongs to a very rooted and empowered artistic and cultural legacy. She has, in her individual way, made her own space, writes Aparajita Krishna She was born i...

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Thought Factory

BEGINNINGS

In a flashback interview, Aamir Khan talks to Khalid Mohamed about the pleasures and pains of acting.  If there’s one Khan from the presiding troika who has remain...

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PRAMOD PAWAR HONOURED FOR THEATRE

Prof. Dr. Avinash Kolhe celebrates Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee Pramod Pawar, whose rem...

June 16 2026

GOVERNOR REWRITES HISTORY FOR POLITICS

Film critic Arnab Banerjee examines Governor, a politically charged retelling of India's...

June 15 2026

COURAGE AMID MUMBAI'S DARKEST NIGHT

Arnab Banerjee reviews Bharat Bhagya Vidhata, Manoj Tapadia's gripping account of courag...

June 15 2026