Habitat International Film Festival: 10 days, 20 countries, over 60 films

The festival will screen award-winning and critically-acclaimed cinema from across the globe with Australia as a focus country

Kuttey marks Aasmaan’s debut

Aasman Bhardwaj, son of film director Vishal Bhardwaj and singer Rekha Bhardwaj, will direct his first ever Bollywood film Kuttey, a dark comedy

Leather hunters

Leather designers, including many from Delhi, are in huge demand thanks to film industry’s growing interest in period films

Prakash Jha: ‘Becoming Mattoo was a wonderful exercise’

Released in cinemas on 16 September, Mattoo ki Saikal marks the debut of M Gani as a feature film director and Prakash Jha as an actor. In this exclusive interview with Patriot, Jha talks about shooting for the film in rural Mathura and his personal connection with the city of Delhi

‘It’s been a rollercoaster ride’

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

House not full: As old cinema halls crumble, wage-earners lose their haunts

Unhonoured and unsung, single-screen halls of Delhi are passing into history. Khanna in Paharganj, which collapsed the other day, was only one of them

Not funny, just queer

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

‘I have lived Munshi Premchand; the values which he has advocated in writing still rule me’

Donning multiple hats, Anand Raaj, the lead actor, writer and producer of Andaman, talks about his motivation behind the movie and his experience of working with Sanjay Mishra and Rajesh Tailang   The makers of ‘Andaman’ have come up with a unique distribution plan for their film after facing constant rejections from production houses.  ‘Andaman’ revolves […]