In first person: Girish Kasaravalli

‘Diminishing support’

FOR me, this 100 years business is something governmental. The government records and the historians need certain dates to mark stages and demarcate t

In first person: Goutam Ghose

Cinema in each language is national

So let us call it 100 years of Indian cinema for convenience’s sake. Now the question that I want to address is, what is Indian cinema? And how Indian

In first person: Anant Nag

‘Films were bolder in the past’

I GREW up in a small village called Shirali, the nearest town being Bhatkal, in north coastal Karnataka. My parents were from North and South

New trails of discovery

Cinema was adopted enthusiastically by the pluralistic society of Kerala, just emerging from feudalism and casteism in the early 20th century, as an i

C. S. Venkiteswaran

In first person: Buddhadeb Dasgupta

A more discerning audience now

BEFORE cinema came to my life I was totally engrossed with poetry, which I started writing from the age of 13. At that time the best poetry ma

From Mysore to Bangalore

THE mainstream Hindi film is the closest we have to a “national cinema” because it addresses wide audiences within the boundaries of the nation. After

RICH TRADITION

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For City Editor: Attn:Mr. K.Ramachandran. 110 years of World Cinema another initiative from Sathyam Cinemas where we would be featuring some of the oldest movies made in the world. I am also sending images of posters that were made in that era.
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