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Inside Wamiqa Gabbi’s golden streak from ‘Jubilee’ to ‘Khufiya’ in 2023
10 years of Wamiqa Gabbi in Indian cinema: Following bit parts in Jab We Met and Love Aaj Kal, Wamiqa Gabbi acted in Punjabi, Malayalam and Telugu cinema before her breakthrough role in Vikramaditya Motwane's Hindi series Jubilee earlier this year.
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Before Tiger 3, Salman Khan’s spy games began as a goofy love story
Ek Tha Tiger, among the earliest Bollywood spy films to do roaring business, was almost light-hearted. Something changed by the time Tiger Zinda Hai released five years later. Ten years on, that self-serious vein is again in evidence in Tiger 3.
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Pataal Lok and Kohrra creator Sudip Sharma is on a mission: Understand the world before it ends
Sudip Sharma on writing about the things he wants to know more about, storytelling of specifics and why the initial excitement around streaming in India has died down.
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How to write a film like 'Jawan'? Think like the masses, says writer S Ramanagirivasan
S. Ramangirivasan on mass films, working with Atlee, how the intro scenes for Shah Rukh Khan in Jawan kept piling up, and why it's only a matter of time that a Hindi film is as successful in the south as some South films have been in the north.
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Pathaan writer Shridhar Raghavan: Few people are as charming or funny as Shah Rukh Khan. We utilised those strengths
Shridhar Raghavan is the mentor writer for YRF’s Spy Universe that brings together characters from Salman Khan’s Tiger series, War, and Pathaan. Next in line is Tiger 3, also written by Raghavan.
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Sundance 2023 premiere | Delhi Crime director Richie Mehta on Poacher, starring Nimisha Sajayan, Roshan Mathew
Richie Mehta, of the International Emmy-winning Delhi Crime Season One, is back with another compelling web-series, Poacher, three episodes of which premiered in the Indie Episode Program section of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Read about the making of the wildlife-crime-thriller series.
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Oscars nominations 2023 | Four reasons why ‘All That Breathes’ should win Best Documentary award
The 95th Oscars nominations have been announced, and for the second time in a row, India will be represented in the Best Documentary Feature competition as Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes' wins a nomination. The final results will be announced on March 12. Keep an eye out for the birds
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Pulp fiction | ‘Cinema Marte Dum Tak’: Meet the makers behind the docuseries on Bollywood’s forgotten impish cousin
Co-creator Vasan Bala, co-director Disha Rindani and researchers Pritesh Srivastava and Aseem Chandaver on the making of the Amazon Prime Video’s docuseries which looks back on the low-budget pulp Hindi film industry that peaked in the 1990s-2000s.
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‘Mukundan Unni Associates’: How the hit Malayalam thriller got made, a deep dive with director Abhinav Sunder Nayak and co-writer Vimal Gopalakrishnan
Malayalam actor-filmmaker Vineeth Sreenivasan stars as a psychopathic lawyer who mints money from fake accident insurance claims in the film, which is currently streaming on Disney+ Hotstar.
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Owen Roizman (1936-2023): ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The French Connection’ cinematographer was a chameleon with the lens
To Roizman's credit are some of the most iconic images and influential cinematographic techniques developed in Hollywood in the 1970s, which saw the rise of such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and William Friedkin.
