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WHEN INDEPENDENT FILMS FIND THEIR AUDIENCE





From festival screenings to public platforms, WIFF Mumbai celebrates a defining moment as its films travel wider. Vinta Nanda reflects on Varun Tandon’s Thursday Special...
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When Memory Becomes a Companion is Utpal Datta’s meditative reading of Hamsafar, a silent Marathi short film that transforms an everyday object into a vessel of love, lo...
Read MoreMOVIES: A STARK MIRROR OF EXPLOITATION





In this powerful review, critic Utpal Datta examines The Untold Agony, revealing how Jayram Waghmode’s forty-minute Marathi short merges fiction with documentary realism...
Read MoreMOVIES: A GENTLE DOWNPOUR OF INDIE SUCCESS





Ritopriyo Saha’s short film Chhoti Baarish (Little Rain) is creating ripples across the global festival circuit — from Bangalore to Toronto — marking the ris...
Read MoreMOVIES: INDIA PREMIERE OF JESUS IN SIGN LANGUAGE





A groundbreaking cinematic milestone, JESUS premieres in India, breaking barriers with American and Indian Sign Language, Hindi dubbing, and English subtitles—uniting De...
Read MoreMOVIES: DANCE OF PUPPETS AND DESIRE





Suman Mukhopadhyay’s Putulnacher Itikatha adapts Manik Bandopadhyay’s classic novel with sensitivity and cinematic depth, bringing alive its conflicts of reason an...
Read MoreMOVIES: SUCH A FALL FROM GRACE





Khalid Mohamed, once a cheerleader of Mani Ratnam, is taken aback with Thug Life, the auteur’s fall from grace. “More for my sanity, than for anyone else’s, ...
Read MoreMOVIES: POISE WITHOUT EMOTIONAL ENTRY





Billed as a tribute to Rituparno Ghosh, Indradeep Dasgupta’s Grihapravesh does not lack ambition and scale. But the effort shows, and the film never comes together as a ...
Read MoreMOVIES: 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...
Read MoreMOVIES: AAMAR BOSS WEARS MANY MASKS





A bittersweet tale of family, loneliness, and emotional overdrive, Amaar Boss blends sentiment with slapstick, raising valid questions while slipping often into melodrama and ...
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Film critic Utpal Datta explores Mazhar Q. Kamran’s Safar Mein Shahar, examining h...
March 7 2026EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN FACTOR
Writer Ranjan Das Gupta reflects on emotional intelligence as a human, ethical and socia...
March 6 2026A LAST CALL FOR THE PLANET
In this in-depth conversation with Vinta Nanda, Fr. Kureethadam Joshtrom reflects on eco...
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