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Mrinal Sen@100
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.
Vaishna Roy
Mrinal Sen@100
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@100 — The Lede
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
Cinema
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
Profile
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
Documentary Films — The Lede
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
Documentary Films
Films Division: A repository of the history of India
What began as the government’s propaganda wing soon grew into the country’s biggest producer of documentary and short films.
Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay
More stories from Cinema
‘Netflix can be both your enemy and your ally as a documentary filmmaker’: Rafeeq Ellias
The versatile filmmaker discusses his journey of making documentaries and how the cinema genre has evolved in India.
Jinoy Jose P.
How feminist documentaries reshaped India’s cinematic imagination
Feminist documentaries from the 1980s onwards brought a fresh and audacious perspective to the traditionally confined ‘political’ documentaries.
Anjali Monteiro,
K.P. Jayasankar
Kartiki Gonsalves: ‘Building a community of documentary filmmakers is crucial’
Interview with the director of The Elephant Whisperers, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film.
Jinoy Jose P.
Documentary filmmakers: The unconventional heroes of free speech in India
It is a fact that documentary films have driven significant advancements in India’s freedom of speech and expression laws.
Lawrence Liang
Editor’s Note: Is the Great Indian Documentary on the cusp of an epochal shift?
From historical chronicles to political dissent and beyond, documentaries have come a long way in India.
Vaishna Roy
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