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Showing posts with label arthouse films. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arthouse films. Show all posts
10 March 2025

"Hindi filmmakers should go back to the drawing board": Interview with Manoj Bajpayee

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A wide-ranging interview with the celebrated Hindi film and OTT actor Manoj Bajpayee, published in Frontline  in May 2024. The team of The F...
20 October 2024

PS Vinothraj: Filmmaker Profile

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PS Vinothraj, whose last film Pebbles was selected as the Indian entry for the 94th Oscars, premiered The Adamant Girl at the Berlin Film ...
3 October 2022

Making Waves at MoMA

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A short essay I wrote for India Today on a festival of contemporary Indian cinema at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2022.  ...
9 May 2021

Satyajit Ray’s world of trains

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My column for Mirror/TOI Plus, the fourth in my series on trains in Indian cinema: On the filmmaker’s birth centenary, a look a...
4 April 2021

Why our enduring romance with the railways makes for great cinema

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My Mumbai Mirror column: Awtar Krishna Kaul's 27 Down, which won two National Awards in 1973 , remains a visually arresting reflection...
15 March 2021

When silent films speak of a lost past

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My Mumbai Mirror column: The discovery of a treasure trove of forgotten nitrate films from the early 1900s is the inspiration for a magical...
8 February 2021

What sells in the media hasn’t changed in 40 years

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My Mumbai Mirror column: In Mrinal Sen’s 1982 film Chaalchitra , the filmmaker turns his astute gaze upon the smokescreen that is the busine...
20 January 2021

A love that breaks class barriers

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My Mumbai Mirror column: An unlikely relationship reaches across social boundaries in Rohena Gera's understated romance  Sir. It may see...
16 January 2021

A Reel Holiday

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My Mirror column: The grand tradition of the holiday movie, from Eric Rohmer to Luca Guadagnino, spins wisdom out of sun-kissed beach breaks...