AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER

An interview with IAWRT Festival Director Aradhana Kohli Kapur This is the only festival of its kind in India. The Asian women’s film festival is organised every year by the International Association of Women in Radio & Television (IAWRT)-India chapter. The 14th edition has just concluded at the India International Centre (IIC) in New Delhi, […]

The star is gone, but lives on

She glittered in an age of VCPs and roadside video parlours, dimmed with the advent of cable TV and faded away as the internet spread In mid-September of 1989, a popular video cassette player (VCP) renting outlet in the sleepy district town of Khagaria in north Bihar had put up a small board at the […]

Fire in the belly

Censor board has refused to certify prakash Jha’s “Lipstick Under my Burkha”, a globally acclaimed film. the thought provoking movie has caused social uproar at home The Central Board for Film Certification (CBFC) invariably finds itself on the front pages of national dailies courting controversies. Not long ago, the board axed a gay-themed film, “Moonlight”, […]