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COVER STORY
18-10-2013
100 years of cinema
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Briefing
In first person: Balu Mahendra
‘Cinematography has changed, so also the way films are made’
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Stardom
Dream merchants
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The convergence of brand culture, television and stardom has forever changed the profile of the Indian film star, generating new sites for the product
In first person: Sabitri Chatterjee
Nostalgic about a bygone era
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In first person: Akkineni Nageswara Rao
The long journey from Gudivada
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In conversation: Samik Bandopadhyay
Centenary and selective memory
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In first person: D. Ramanaidu
‘Telugu industry a force to reckon with’
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Telugu
In search of new narratives
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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
In first person: Arghyakamal Mitra
‘We just keep up with the West’
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In first person: K. Viswanath
‘Change cannot be at the cost of values’
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Tamil
A way of life
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Tamil cinema inherited interesting and different characteristics from the art form it evolved from, the “company drama”: a strong aural tradition and
Industry
Market and the medium
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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’
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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
Documentary
Narrating actuality
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The language of documentary in India has moved from capturing “reality” to presenting “authenticity” and from being an instrument of propaganda at the
Theatres
Show time
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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
Interview: Adoor Gopalakrishnan
‘Indian cinema began with Ray’
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Aesthetics
From Stone Age...
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It is the unacknowledged contribution of countries like India that liberated themselves from colonial rule to create discourse for the postmodern and
Music
Singing cinema
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Cinema music exists only because there is cinema and has been and is constantly in a state of transition.
Interview: Kamal Hassan
‘There is no separate pedestal for the performer’
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Kamal Hassan. Having been part of the film world for 54 of his 58 years, Kamal Hassan is today an epitome of versatility. His career started with a ba
In first person: Mammootty
Irresistible magic
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Bharathiraja
Man behind the 1970s wave
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Parallel cinema
Parallel experience
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Gulzar speaks
‘Hindi films saved Urdu’
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The Bachchan phenomenon
Brand Bachchan
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In first person: Girish Kasaravalli
‘Diminishing support’
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In first person: Goutam Ghose
Cinema in each language is national
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In first person: Soumitra Chatterjee
Back to Bengali literature
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In first person: Anant Nag
‘Films were bolder in the past’
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Malayalam
New trails of discovery
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Cinema was adopted enthusiastically by the pluralistic society of Kerala, just emerging from feudalism and casteism in the early 20th century, as an i
Editor's note
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In first person: Buddhadeb Dasgupta
A more discerning audience now
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Kannada
From Mysore to Bangalore
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Bengali
RICH TRADITION
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Bengal happened to produce a highly successful set of popular conventions, most importantly a form of bourgeois melodrama that became commonly identif
Marathi
Standing tall
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Marathi cinema, as old as Indian cinema itself, has not only arrived but is thriving.
Fan clubs
Hero worship
Lead Story
The fan phenomenon is uniquely south Indian, and if there is one single feature that characterises all fan activity, it is the fans’ acute sense of en
Assamese
Against odds
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A look at the film history of Assam reveals a pathetic tale of struggle for survival in a market-driven situation.
Women in cinema
Missing angle
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A greater range of women’s experiences and lives needs to be covered in depth before the daughters of India can see themselves as full human beings on
Hindi Cinema
Opiate of the masses
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Whether dabbling in mythology, as in the silent era, or Nehruvian socialism, or the escapist formula fare in the 1970s and later, Hindi cinema was alw
Interview: Mahesh Bhatt
‘Our cinema will emerge stronger’
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Mahesh Bhatt. For all his candour in real life, his films, such as Arth (1982) and Saaransh (1984), have made the best possible statements on his beha
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