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Festivals

FESTIVALS: FUTURE AND LEGACY OF INDIAN CINEMA

A Bold New Chapter: SCREEN Academy Fellowship Empowers Young Filmmakers. From nurturing emerging voices to restoring timeless classics, Mumbai’s cinematic pulse beats st...

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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 streaming platforms. 2025’s queer cinema quietly...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: THE HUNT - A HAUNTING MASTERPIECE

SonyLIV’s The Hunt reframes political storytelling with restraint and realism, offering a gripping, almost meditative investigation into one of India’s most defini...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: MAALIK IS BLOOD, DUST, SWAGGER

Even Earnest Rajkummar Rao Can’t Fully Rescue This Formulaic Gangster Drama. Pulkit’s Maalik is a gritty, stylish gangster saga that boasts Rajkummar Rao in top fo...

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Trending

TRENDING: A THOUSAND QUIET EXPLOSIONS OF CREATIVITY

From provocative fiction to powerful grassroots screenings and a festival of global cultures—meet the quiet revolutionaries reshaping India’s creative landscape be...

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Alternative Entertainment

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE

OTT has redefined cinema with realism and bold narratives, challenging the dominance of Bollywood and Hollywood's star-driven spectacles by echoing the authenticity of Europea...

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Movies

MOVIES: WHY THIS ADVENTURE FAILS

A scathing critique of Sonar Kellay Jawker Dhan by Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, exploring how lack of imagination, poor execution, and hollow nostalgia destroy the potential of a o...

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AI and Tech

AI & TECH: KEEPING THE STORY ROOTS ALIVE

Immersive technology is revolutionizing storytelling, but without traditional foundations like theatre, music, and live performance, the evolution of authentic narrative risks...

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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 Phoolan Devi, recalling the blitz of controversies which surrounded th...

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Kaleidoscope

KALEIDOSCOPE: THE ONE-WAY SHIPS IS A STIRRING DEBUT

A powerful debut, The One-Way Ships unearths the forgotten voices of colonial India’s ayahs—young girls torn from home, navigating loss and identity across contine...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: OF THAT HUMAN FACTOR

Currently, the boom in Artificial Intelligence has been viewed with mounting dread or em...

December 9 2025

POWERFUL PEOPLE: IDEAS BECOME MOVEMENTS HERE

A conversation between Vinta Nanda and Shenali Rajaratnam, a young global leader shaping...

December 8 2025

RETROSCOPE: FLASHBACKING WITH....CHAUDVIN KA CHAND!!

Monojit Lahiri met up with the still-gorgeous Waheeda Rehman at her sea-front flat in Ba...

December 7 2025