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...

By the mid-1970s, the audacious William Friedkin had already made two signature American films of the decade - The French Connection...

Mumbai: Years ago, the veteran south Indian and Bollywood director A. Bhimsingh was working on the gloomy love-triangle, ‘Aadmi’ (1968)...

Mumbai: April 4, 2025, my heart feels heavier than it ever has. The news hit me like a monsoon storm—Manoj Kumar, the towering legend of...

U.S. actor Richard Chamberlain, who passed away recently at 90, will forever be remembered as television’s dashing Dr. Kildare and his...

Once again, producers R. D. Bansal and family have brought back a 2K restored version of Satyajit Ray’s Nayak across Indian theatres on...