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Patriot Bureau -August 19, 2022

A lawsuit filed in Delhi HC sought to prevent the film from releasing on ITT platforms as it had infringed the literary copyrights of ‘Kabu na chhadein khet’

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MURTAZA ALI KHAN -August 10, 2022

Indian cinema plays a big part in helping Indians imagine themselves as an entity bound together with a common culture. Though themes and tastes have changed, there is no doubt that our films are larger than life and aspirational, showing us what we want to be rather than who we really are

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Rohan Chauhan and Faisal Malik -June 19, 2022

In recent years, there has been a sense that when heterosexual actors play homosexual characters, they fail to portray the reality and nuances of a queer character. Now, for the first time, a gay character will be played by an actor from the queer community: Vidur Sethi in Pine Cone

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Rohan Chauhan and Mohd Shehwaaz Khan -June 18, 2022

The queer community is now being cast in a better light in Indian cinema. Not just indie films, Bollywood too is embracing the assertion of different sexual identities and the multitudes of character portrayals that spring from it

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MURTAZA ALI KHAN -January 21, 2022

In this interview, National Award-winning director Dinesh S Yadav talks about the need for establishing more film institutes in the country on the lines of FTII and SRFTI, and his upcoming projects   FTII alumnus Dinesh S. Yadav’s National Award-winning film Turtle and its sequel Waah Zindagi are finally out on the web after a […]

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MURTAZA ALI KHAN -January 14, 2022

Zoya Afroz, crowned the second runner-up at Femina Miss India 2013, will now be competing at the Glamanand Supermodel India contest and will represent India at the Miss International 2022, as the holder of the title Miss India International 2021  Starting her journey at a young age, Zoya made her first appearance as a child […]

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MURTAZA ALI KHAN -January 10, 2022

From his role as a screenwriter in Sarkar (2005) to working on his latest work 420 IPC, writer-director Manish Gupta gives his opinion on courtroom dramas in India, the role of OTT platforms in attracting audiences and the many challenges for the industry amidst Covid  Manish Gupta began his career as a screenwriter on the […]

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MURTAZA ALI KHAN -November 22, 2021

Member of the quartet S&G Escapes, Nalin Singh, talks about ‘Café Morgan’, the groups latest foray in the world of collaborative writing   The writing quartet of Bharti and Sunil Girdhar & Aparna and Nalin Singh currently finds itself in a very unique space in India’s literary scene. As collaborative fiction writers, the Girdhars and Singhs have so far […]

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