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Hollywood

Remembering Hollywood’s Cleopatra!

A Timeless Movie Queen, Ageless Screen Legend, Matchless Star, writes Monojit Lahiri, on Elizabeth Taylor’s 88th Birth Anniversary on 27th February 2020, when paying tri...

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Movies

Back on the Burning Train

Film historian Dhruv Somani, takes you back on a ride to India’s first disaster movie directed by Ravi Chopra, which had its taut and terrifying moments but unfortunatel...

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Business and Politics

When stories divide…

Humra Quraishi expresses her apprehensions about the divisive politics being played today and what is means for the Indian Muslim. We aren’t born to experience tra...

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Powerful People

ACTOR with a CAUSE

Khalid Mohamed’s heartspeak with Atul Kulkarni, the actor of substance and spleen, who has lately been making waves with his performances in A Thursday and Rudra. At th...

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Thought Factory

MUJIB: The Making Of A Nation

Aparajita Krishna has brief but deep conversations with director Shyam Benegal, co-writer Atul Tiwari and costume designer Pia Benegal of the soon to be released film Mujib: T...

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Alternative Entertainment

Music Knows No Caste

After garnering critical acclaim and winning the FIPRESCI Award at the Bangladesh International Film Festival 2022, Bangladeshi filmmaker Shabnam Ferdousi’s debut featur...

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Alternative Entertainment

Crime Drama, Women and Claude Chabrol!

Writes Vandana Kumar, “No one takes you away from one-dimensional morality while trying to fathom his women characters as Claude Chabrol does”. I am writing ...

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Festivals

Shreejith Mohan wins KASHISH 2022 poster contest

South Asia’s biggest LGBTQIA+ film festival to be held June 1-5, 2022, reports The Daily Eye Newsdesk. The winner for the KASHISH 2022 Wendell Rodricks Poster Design Co...

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Trending

More about the Hijab

The hijab controversy has gripped the nation. Professionals from various religions speak to Monarose Sheila Pereira about their views  Adv. Shane Cardoz  While ...

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Bollywood

Director’s Cut

Film historian Dhruv Somani, pens a tribute to the late producer-director Ravi Tandon, who had kept a low profile throughout his estimable career. Stalwart producer-director ...

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THE JUST: POLITICS, MORALITY, VIOLENCE

Prof Dr Avinash Kolhe reviews The Just, Albert Camus’s powerful political-moral pl...

August 17 2026

BATWARA 1947 REVIEW: SHABANA AZMI

BATWARA 1947 REVIEW: SHABANA AZMI Every nation carries within it a wound that history ...

August 16 2026

SRIDEVI: BOLLYWOOD’S MOST MAGICAL SUPERSTAR  

On her 63rd Birthday, August 13, Monojit Lahiri ...

August 15 2026