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Kumar Shahani, filmmaker and film theoretician in Chennai.

Kumar Shahani: Visionary filmmaker who pushed Indian cinema’s boundaries 

From Maya Darpan to Tarang, Sahani’s legacy is marked by experimentation, intellectual complexity, and a lifelong dialogue with realism and the avant-
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All That Breathes celebrates people’s struggle against the odds in a milieu where hope is hard to come by.

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.
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A still from Kantara.

Vocally local: ‘Kantara’ is new cinema with moorings in local culture

Among the recent blockbuster southern films, it is unique for not being “regional cinema”.
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