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Ganpati Bappa and the Movies
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How Mumbai’s studios and streets celebrated cinema
Mumbai: Mumbai’s Ganesh Utsav has always been more than a religious celebration. For generations, it has also intersected with the city’s other great passion-cinema.
Long before photographs of stars welcoming Ganpati Bappa at...
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The Market of Fear
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Alfred Hitchcock made fear a sophisticated form of entertainment. Above, James Stewart in Rear Window (1954) and Cary Grant in North by Northwest (1959).
Let us begin where discussions of this kind usually begin, the market. Leaving thriller novels and...
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What Cinema Misses About the Ramayana
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To capture Valmiki’s wonder on screen, filmmakers must look beyond the great battle and to the poignant love between Sita and Rama.
Yugo Sako’s 'Ramayana, The Legend of Prince Rama' came closest to ciematically capturing the tenderness of Sita and...
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Bollywood’s War of Narratives
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The Hindi film industry’s old formula of sanitising Pakistan and demonising Indian society is now facing a box-office challenge from films putting national security and historical memory at the centre of the story.
There have always been two distinct, divergent...
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From Stardom to Statecraft
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For India’s film stars, the leap from screen fame to political power has been a journey of triumphs, reversals and occasional second acts.
From Thalapathy on screen, Vijay has taken political centre stage as Tamil Nadu's current Chief Minister.
For...
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Why We Really Watch Screen Adaptations of Ancient Epics
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A still from Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
If you have read epic poetry from ancient Greece or India, whether in translation or in the original, you’d know that the heroes in these great epic poems have their vulnerabilities. I’m not...
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Reel History: How Bollywood Reconstructs the Past
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Cinema frequently departs from historical reality to serve narrative and emotional needs.
Cinema has served as a powerful medium of blending history with storytelling to create emotionally compelling narratives. The representation of history in cinema oscillates between fact and fiction....
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A Series On Marital Rape
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Sadly, marital rape is not a punishable crime in India. More than half of the world’s countries do not criminalise sexual assault in marriage, including OECD countries like the Czech Republic and Japan. But is marriage the right solution even...
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Cinema’s Quiet Unifier
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A. Krishnamurthi’s maiden Marathi film was inspired by Balasaheb Thackeray
Mumbai: Renowned film producer A. Krishnamurthi, founder of Tina Films International (TFI), passed away early Friday following a brief illness. He was 98. He breathed his last at Lilavati Hospital,...
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