Since the Partition of 1947, the relationship between India and Pakistan has been fraught with hostility, mistrust, and fleeting attempts at diplomacy. This tension has not only played out in…
This country has tremendous festivals to celebrate, as the population and culture are so diverse from north to south, with hundreds of religious, seasonal, and cultural events every year. As…
This article was written in 2013 on the occasion of Indian cinema turning 100 Not long ago, a poet summed up in style: Cinema theatres are the psycho-analytical clinics of…
After imposing executive controls over the Over The Top (OTT) streaming media, the Centre has inflicted yet another blow on cinema medium... Either the producer must silently suffer or move…
In any society myths play an important role. For various reasons a society and its many members have a tendency, a weakness or liking, for certain myths and want to…
While surely the main concerns of the Hindi film industry have always related to entertainment as business, nevertheless there has been generally a significant space also for taking up and…
"There will be no lasting improvement in any realm unless the excessive violence embedded in our diversions dissipates. The Hollywod celebrities who are -- understandably -- protesting the disgusting…
“The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left,” says film maestro Ingmar Bergman. If there was so much anger and…
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