‘It was a great learning process’

Debutants Riva Kishan and Priyaank Sharma talks about their film Sab Kushal Mangal, carrying forward their parents’ legacy and more THIS YEAR’S first new release Sab Kushal Mangal, directed by Karan Vishwanath Kashyap, is set to launch two new actors: Riva Kishan and Priyaank Sharma. While the former is the daughter of Bhojpuri superstar Ravi […]

The End – of Cinematic Journey 2019

As we enter 2020, here’s a flashback – where we’ll take a look at some of the best performances, the most underrated films of the year, which regional films made a mark and how Indian web series created waves across the country Best Performances (Male) l Ayushmann Khurrana: Bollywood’s ‘golden boy’ Ayushmann Khurrana, who also […]

A year of treading dangerously

As we move forward to 2020, a look at the films that defined the year gone past 2019 was a year when a mainstream Bollywood film spoke about India’s prevailing caste system for the first time. It was also the year when mainstream films took up topics like sexual health and sexuality, and explored it […]

‘The figure of inspiration is always female’

Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali talks about his childhood days, sleeping at a local train station during college and the influences on his filmmaking He is the flag-bearer of romantic films of this generation in Bollywood. With a career spanning over a decade, acclaimed filmmaker Imtiaz Ali has delivered massive hits, worked with superstars and has a […]

Let’s go regional

The third edition of Bangla Movie Fest is all set to bring the best of films from Bengal, Assam and Maharashtra, and will be graced by acclaimed members of the film fraternity There was a time when film fans in north India thought Hindi films are the only films being made in India. Whenever people […]

“Sacred Games 2 shows the real India”

Actor Jatin Sarna talks about Sacred Games and his upcoming film ‘83 where he will play cricketer Yashpal Sharma The Netflix original series Sacred Games has brought many young and talented actors into limelight. One character that has captured everyone’s attention other than the series’ protagonist Ganesh Gaitonde (played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is Bunty. Essayed […]

An ode to love and alienation

Ek betuke aadmi ki afrah raatein attempts to locate communal riots in a wider historical legacy of the nation state, while investigating individual stories of caste and subjugation through gender Fyodor Dostoevsky is on a slow and laborious walk in Muzaffarnagar and Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He notices another gentleman, Munshi Premchand, savouring the lives and […]

Brownfacing in Bollywood

Bhumi Pednekar’s skin colour in Bala is an outrage. Why is nobody protesting? The newly released film Bala, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar, is problematic. It not only takes the insulting practice of brownfacing in Bollywood to a new level of blackfacing but does so under the guise of denoucing false conceptions of beauty […]