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From Eurorail to Sarson Ke Khet: An Ethnography of DDLJ’s Everlasting Romance with India by Yashika Begwani, explores why thirty years on, Indians still dream of love in...
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As Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge completes 30 years of success, Monojit Lahiri takes you down memory lane tracing the life and times of Bollywood’s timeless Majnu, the kin...
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Inside the Impact Storytelling Masterclass at WIFF Mumbai 2025: At the Waterfront Indie Film Festival Mumbai 2025, filmmakers and changemakers came together to explore how sto...
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Khalid Mohamed looks back at 1975, the year of Sholay and the miraculous success of Jai Santoshi Maa and its aftermath — a cinematic contrast that defined devotion, dest...
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Ritopriyo Saha’s short film Chhoti Baarish (Little Rain) is creating ripples across the global festival circuit — from Bangalore to Toronto — marking the ris...
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As India celebrates the birth centenary of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, the Bard of the Brahmaputra, Utpal Datta recalls a poignant conversation that revealed the man behind the legen...
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When art-house brilliance wins global acclaim but faces neglect in its own country, it forces us to question the moral compass of our cinematic culture and its growing obsessi...
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A powerful panel at IFFD 2026 brings together leading independent filmmakers to examine ...
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