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Centenary Tribute

Shailendra: Lyricist who found divinity in humanity

This year marks the birth centenary of the lyrical genius whose verses transcended borders.

Ashutosh Sharma

Jawan: Is Shah Rukh Khan endorsing vigilante action?

While visually striking and action-packed, the film raises uncomfortable questions about its messaging.

Suhas Palshikar

How Alia Bhatt’s modern woman reflects the time we live in

Bhatt has consistently found success by playing complex, relatable, and unsinkable women.

Ishita Sengupta

‘Nationalism has to be rational’: Shoojit Sircar

The director of Sardar Udham, which has won five National Film awards, talks about making a ‘nationalist’ film in an age of hyper-nationalism.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

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Puducherry’s unusual film festival

The Manifest festival showcases films on dance, a genre that is slowly coming of age.

HOLLYWOOD STRIKE

Hollywood strike: Why some productions are continuing anyway

Strikes by actors and screenwriters have brought Hollywood to a halt. Some productions are still going ahead — but there are no scabs at work. What is

Plot twist no one saw coming: Karan Johar gets clean chit!

How ‘Rocky aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani’ united the deeply divided audiences that Karan Johar’s cinema invariably creates.

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Generations of Hindi cinema’s fans have been captivated by an array of talents that have graced the silver screen.

Exploring Bollywood’s journey through obituaries of its illustrious artists

Tributes to some of the stalwarts of Hindi cinema.

‘Mrinal da was an argumentative filmmaker’: Goutam Ghose

The director of classics such as Paar (1984) and Padma Nadir Majhi (1993) said Sen was uncompromising both as a filmmaker and as a human being.

Avik Mukhopadhyay.

‘To everyone Mrinal Sen was bondhu (friend)‘: Avik Mukhopadhyay

The famed cinematographer, who worked with the master in his last film Aamaar Bhuvan (2002), says Sen never stopped trying to break the stereotype.

Avik Mukhopadhyay

A still from Chorus showing applicants standing in a long queue for forms.

From Paradise Café to political cinema: Mrinal Sen’s radical journey

His films defied party allegiance and national cinema norms, identifying sectarianism as the true adversary.

Mrinal Sen and Sashi Anand, his cinematographer, during the shooting of Antareen (1993), which is set in an old palatial mansion.

Memory, history, and political commentary

Mrinal Sen deftly balanced contemporary political issues with a layered narrative of history and memory.

Madhuja Mukherjee

‘Mrinal Sen’s stark images transformed me’: Shoojit Sircar

The director of Vicky Donor, Madras Café, Piku, and Sardar Udham says he draws inspiration from Sen’s presentation of realism.

Mrinal Sen’s cinema might not be an easy outing: you don’t exactly get a tale on a plate with all the ends neatly tied up.

Editor’s Note: Mrinal Sen shattered our illusions about life and cinema

Introducing a new cinematic idiom, Sen challenged conventions and forced the audience to confront unsettling questions.

Mrinal Sen and Dhritiman Chaterji during the making of Padatik.

Dhritiman Chaterji on Mrinal Sen: ‘There was no difference between the filmmaker and the man’

One of the great actors of Indian cinema, Chaterji worked with the master director in Padatik and Akaler Sandhane.

Dhritiman Chaterji

Mrinal Sen’s films could be angry, bitter, satirical, gloomy, dark, even terrifying in their bleakness, but they uttered universal truths about human conditions, exploitation, and injustice.

From revolution to realism, the multifaceted legacy of Mrinal Sen

When conformity and obedience to the state become the norm, his dissent stands out as a beacon of inspiration.

Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay

A still from The Mirror. “I love that the film is a cat-and-mouse game. They have both transgressed,” says Konkona.

How Konkona Sen Sharma’s ‘The Mirror’ explores class and desire

Her new short film, part of the Netflix anthology Lust Stories 2, hits hard by making honesty an imperative.

Shreevatsa Nevatia

MT Vasudevan Nair in April 2019.

M.T. Vasudevan Nair at 90: Maverick maestro of words and frames

Over the last six decades, his literature and cinema have mapped Kerala society in all its intensity and complexity.

C.S. Venkiteswaran

All That Breathes celebrates people’s struggle against the odds in a milieu where hope is hard to come by.

The time is ripe for documentary as entertainment

A new era might be beginning for this genre of cinema, with OTT platforms and fresh audiences creating wide open spaces.

M.K. Raghavendra

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