Woman IPS officer accuses a top Tamil Nadu police official of sexual harassment, Madras High Court takes suo motu notice
Mamata throws a challenge to Suvendu Adhikari, announces her decision to contest from his bastion of Nandigram; Trinamool candidates list out
After Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Party, Shiv Sena backs Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation sets aside Rs.1,400 crore for the rejuvenation of Mumbai’s rivers
The Goa Foundation says a new proposal of the Ministry of Mines infringes on the rights of State governments and would lead to the sale of mines at below-market prices
Tamil Nadu government bans registration of land within 5km radius of Madras Atomic Power Station at Kalpakkam
Jitendra Tiwari, Trinamool MLA and former Mayor of Asansol, joins BJP on a day when ECI notifies first of eight-phase Assembly election
An international online symposium of university teachers calls for the creation of a forum to address the major disruption in academics caused by COVID-19 pandemic
Influential Bengal cleric Abbas Siddiqui takes the stage at Left-Congress Kolkata rally, announces support of his ISF to Left Front in election
Mamata Banerjee slams EC for eight phase election in West Bengal and asks if the schedule was made on orders of Modi and Shah
K. Balachander The KB school Ilangovan Rajasekaran AN hour-long discussion on his films, many of which defied established social norms and ...
Cinema's century Contemplating a century Sashi Kumar Mainstream Indian cinema’s hundred year spree makes for a pulsating narrative. Though it ...
In first person: M. Karunanidhi Cinema for a cause THE topic “Tamil cinema in the past 100 years” takes me back 70 years to an era of ...
In first person: Balu Mahendra ‘Cinematography has changed, so also the way films are made’ I graduated in cinematography from the Film Institute in Pune in 1969 with a gold medal.
Stardom Dream merchants The convergence of brand culture, television and stardom has forever changed the profile ...
Interview: Vipin Vijay ‘Aesthetic struggle alone matters’ Vipin Vijay is a postgraduate in film-making from the Satyajit Ray Film and Television ...
Interview: Adoor Gopalakrishnan ‘Indian cinema began with Ray’ On the ‘Indian’ in Indian cinema Indian life is different, and if a film is able to ...
In first person: Mammootty Irresistible magic CINEMA is not just my bread. It is my breath and my very being. It is indeed a proud ...
Hindi Opiate of the masses ZIYA US SALAM Whether dabbling in mythology, as in the silent era, or Nehruvian socialism, or the ...
Bharathiraja Man behind the 1970s wave IT was when Tamil cinema was in dire need of a powerful shot of adrenalin that the young ...
Malayalam New trails of discovery C. S. Venkiteswaran Cinema was adopted enthusiastically by the pluralistic society of Kerala, just emerging ...
Bengali RICH TRADITION Bengal happened to produce a highly successful set of popular conventions, most ...
Kannada From Mysore to Bangalore THE mainstream Hindi film is the closest we have to a “national cinema” because it ...
Documentary Narrating actuality Madhusree Dutta The language of documentary in India has moved from capturing “reality” to presenting ...
Marathi Standing tall Marathi cinema, as old as Indian cinema itself, has not only arrived but is thriving.
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 ...
Industry Market and the medium While apologists for corporatisation argue that it will clean up film-making, critics feel ...
Tamil A way of life Theodore Baskaran Tamil cinema inherited interesting and different characteristics from the art form it ...
Interview: Kamal Hassan ‘There is no separate pedestal for the performer’ R. Vijaya SankarR. Ilangovan Kamal Hassan. Having been part of the film world for 54 of his 58 years, Kamal Hassan is ...
Theatres Show time Stephen Putnam Hughes The year 1913 marks an important new development in the creation of a permanent home for ...
Music Singing cinema Cinema music exists only because there is cinema and has been and is constantly in a state ...
Aesthetics From Stone Age... Kumar Shahani It is the unacknowledged contribution of countries like India that liberated themselves ...
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 ...
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 ...
