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From Doctor to Box-Office Disruptor
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Vishal Chaturvedi has turned a deeply personal spiritual story into one of 2026’s biggest box-office surprises.
In an industry where films routinely arrive with star salaries running into crores, lavish sets and multi-crore marketing campaigns, Hanuman Ansh is a striking...
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The Huns Who Came in from the Cinematic Cold
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Peter o' Toole in 'The Night of the Generals' (1967), which remains vastly underrated despite its trenchant probing of the Nazi psyche.
This week marks yet another anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe. The dating...
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Childhood for Sale
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Khilawadi, a short fiction film directed by the young and sprightly Shobhita Thakur, alumnus of the FTII, Pune, is making news wherever the film is being screened. Why? The subject of the film is shocking in its inhuman brutality.
Through...
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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.
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Why India Can’t Get Its Epics Right on Screen
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A still from Peter Brook's 'The Mahabharata' (1989)
Every time Hollywood drops a blockbuster movie based on one of the foundational epics of the West, a collective groan seems to arise from a significant section of Indian cinephiles and the...
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Time Turns from Ray to Nolan
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Separated by 55 years and radically different philosophies, Satyajit Ray and Christopher Nolan found remarkably similar cinematic ways to make the elusive nature of time visible.
A still from Ray's biting classic Mahapurush (1965)
“Gentlemen think alike!” is the proverb...
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Why do Indian superheroes fail to impress the audience?
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Mumbai: Spider-Man continues to enjoy phenomenal success at the Indian box office, highlighting the country's enduring fascination with Hollywood superheroes. But the craze also raises an important question: Has Bollywood missed the opportunity to build its own superhero universe?
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Alpha, Alia and the business of female stardom
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Mumbai: For all the progress Hindi cinema likes to claim, one uncomfortable truth keeps returning to the surface and that is, the industry still does not know how to build women into lasting theatrical phenomena. Alia Bhatt’s Alpha is only...
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Selective Memory
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The decision by censors to withhold the Diljit Dosanjh-starrer Satluj from Indian audiences scarcely forty-eight hours after its release has elevated the film into a political cause. The controversy is now about how India chooses to remember one of the...
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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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Alistair MacLean’s Arctic Dream
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There are films that critics unanimously consecrate, and others that, despite critical derision, retain a strange and enduring grip upon memory. Such ambivalently received films are cherished with an almost irrational devotion by those who encounter them at the right...
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