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Cinema
In first person: D. Ramanaidu
‘Telugu industry a force to reckon with’
I WANTED to be a farmer, and for a while I did just that, apart from running a rice mill and even operating a few buses. Not content with the work bac
Telugu
In search of new narratives
As differentiation between genres began to get blurred in the early 1970s, the star and his relation to the fan became the sole aesthetic preoccupatio
VENKATESH CHAKRAVARTHY
In first person: Arghyakamal Mitra
‘We just keep up with the West’
Technically, I definitely feel that Indian cinema has taken a great leap. Whatever developments have been taking place globally, India has somehow kep
In first person: K. Viswanath
‘Change cannot be at the cost of values’
EVERY time a mediaperson meets me, his/her first question is: “What makes your films so everlasting?” My reply is almost always the same: chemistry is
Tamil
A way of life
Tamil cinema inherited interesting and different characteristics from the art form it evolved from, the “company drama”: a strong aural tradition and
Theodore Baskaran
Industry
Market and the medium
While apologists for corporatisation argue that it will clean up film-making, critics feel that this is not necessarily the case and that the cottage
Interview: Vipin Vijay
‘Aesthetic struggle alone matters’
Vipin Vijay is a postgraduate in film-making from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. He has made several award-winning short fil
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Narrating actuality
The language of documentary in India has moved from capturing “reality” to presenting “authenticity” and from being an instrument of propaganda at the
Madhusree Dutta
Show time
The year 1913 marks an important new development in the creation of a permanent home for film in specialised cinema theatres, which is every bit as mo
Stephen Putnam Hughes
‘Indian cinema began with Ray’
Indian life is different, and if a film is able to reflect that, it is “Indian” cinema. We do not belong to either the fork-and-knife people of the We
From Stone Age...
It is the unacknowledged contribution of countries like India that liberated themselves from colonial rule to create discourse for the postmodern and
Kumar Shahani
Singing cinema
Cinema music exists only because there is cinema and has been and is constantly in a state of transition.
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