Dhurandhar’s  continuing box-office smash reveals how Bollywood’s patriotism has evolved from chest-thumping emotion to cool-headed statecraft. Bollywood has always moved in cycles. At one point, it obsessed over star-crossed lovers, in another phase, it was family melodramas or vigilante revenge. Yet one theme returns with almost metronomic regularity: the nation at war with itself or with others. Patriotism, in Hindi cinema, is not merely a genre but a barometer of national

From AI experiments to restored classics, the 56 th  edition of IFFI has widened the frame of Indian cinema and hinted at where it is headed next. Last month, on the sunlit banks of the Mandovi River, the western Indian state of Goa once again transformed into a brilliant mosaic of reels, voices and visions. From November 20 to 28, the 56th International Film Festival of India saw Panaji turned into a carnival of stories, with each frame a portal to distant lands, untold live

The iconic filmmaker’s scathing verdict on India’s National Film Awards exposes how India’s highest cinematic honour has drifted from art to appeasement. Adoor Gopalakrishnan is not a man who intervenes casually in public debate. He does not issue press releases, chase relevance or offer opinions to stay in circulation. His appearances in the public square are infrequent, and when he speaks, it is usually in the measured cadences of someone who has spent a lifetime observing

I n an era where artificial intelligence quietly slips into every corner of modern life, "Chiranjiv Perfect Bighadalay" arrives as a timely, refreshing, and deeply relevant theatrical experience. Presented by seasoned theatre stalwart Chandrakant Kulkarni, the play captures the quirks, conflicts, and chaos of today's tech-driven youth with wit, emotional depth, and striking clarity. Originally born as a one- act play that swept all awards at this year's Akhil Bharatiya Marath

While government grants and corporate sponsorships help keep it afloat, India’s professional theatre faces an existential challenge in...

The 71st National Film Awards will be remembered for the silence that buried a four-decade prize for cinema’s writers. “Silence is...

“Is Paris burning?” barked Hitler down the telephone to General Dietrich von Choltitz in August 1944, as the Allies pressed into France...

How a small state’s dialect cinema won India’s highest film honour in 2019. Chhattisgarh, a heavily forested state in central India, is...

Scarcely a day goes by without being worn down by the Maxwell murk, the sordid doings of the incarcerated Ghislaine Maxwell still...

No actor in India has commanded mass hysteria like Rajesh Khanna. His rise was meteoric, his decline Shakespearean. “Upar aaka, neeche...

As the Cold War entered its twilight and Gorbachev’s glasnost began to thaw decades of ideological frost, Australian director Fred...

My personal take on Adwait Dadarkar’s  Eka Lagnachi Pudhchi Goshta  — a Marathi play that held up a mirror to my marriage. Lately, I’ve...

I have never cared for Robert Ludlum’s airport reads. While the Bourne trilogy promised glimpses into the shadowy world of the terrorist...

Bollywood’s sports biopics are often whitewashed — stripped of controversy and seemingly vetted by the sportsperson’s PR team. Cricket...

Kashmir’s cinematic journey, from Bollywood’s favourite dream destination to a backdrop of conflict and politics, reflects India’s...

Fifty years after  Sholay , Bollywood returns with  Dum Laga Ke Haisha ,  Bareilly Ki Barfi ,  Stree , and  Laapata Ladies , offering...

Fifty years after Sholay, Bollywood returns with Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Stree, and Laapata Ladies, offering honest...

Mumbai: Almost 81 years after his passing, the first-ever biopic of the Father of Indian Cinema, Dhundiraj Govind Phalke – revered as...

Ritual has often met raw political calculation in the cloistered opulence of the Vatican. The death of a pope is not merely an occasion...

Guru Dutt was born Gurudutt Padukone in Bangalore on 9 July 1925. His father, Shivshankar Rao Padukone, had married Vasanthi in 1923. The...