Mahendran Icon of changeVenkatesh ChakravarthyMahendran (1939-2019) set a new path in Tamil cinema with his deglamorised films.
Bernardo Bertolucci Master craftsmanVenkatesh ChakravarthyIn a career spanning 50 years, Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018) was equally at ease with epic historical dramas and intense psychological movies that w
The actor & the person The star, the actor & the womanVENKATESH CHAKRAVARTHYMany of the characters played by Jayalalithaa in her films were dramatisations of patriarchal anxieties, with the female body rendered pleasurable and
D. Ramanaidu Dream merchantVenkatesh ChakravarthyDaggubati Ramanaidu (1936-2015) is remembered not just for the record number of films he produced. He launched many careers, fostered film-making in H
Telugu In search of new narrativesVENKATESH CHAKRAVARTHYAs differentiation between genres began to get blurred in the early 1970s, the star and his relation to the fan became the sole aesthetic preoccupatio
SlideshowCaptured in timeAs independent India turns 75, some of the defining images of those seven decades.
