MOVIES
Ukrainian filmmaker Lesia Diak: ‘Dad’s Lullaby aims to capture the invisible damage of Russian war on Ukraine’
DIFF 2024: At the recently concluded 13th Dharamshala International Film Festival, Ukrainian filmmaker Lesia Diak's debut feature-length conversational personal documentary 'Dad's Lullaby' trained the lens on war veteran Serhiy to show the mental and emotional damage of wars on family life.
MOVIES
Nepal’s Deepak Rauniyar & Asha Magarati: Pooja, Sir is about ‘South Asian racism & Otherness’
DIFF 2024: At the recently concluded 13th Dharamshala International Film Festival, director Deepak Rauniyar & actress Asha Magarati spoke about Nepalese cinema, India & Nepal, and their film 'Pooja, Sir', which now has Anurag Kashyap as its executive producer.
MOVIES
Shahana Goswami: ‘I’ve a lot of imposter syndrome, I’m not a trained actor but I thrive in front of the camera’
DIFF 2024: At 13th Dharamshala International Film Festival, Bollywood actor Shahana Goswami spoke about her police thriller film 'Santosh', which is the UK's Oscars nominee, about becoming a global actor, and more.
MOVIES
13th DIFF wrap-up: Dibakar Banerjee, Shahana Goswami, Rima Das, film fraternity elevate conversations on South Asian cinema
Dharamshala International Film Festival 2024: Global award winners, local flavour, diverse stories, indigenous storytelling and a greater number of films by women filmmakers made the 13th edition of DIFF an indie film festival to reckon with.
ENTERTAINMENT
Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘shelved’ Tees, All We Imagine as Light, Pooja, Sir to screen at DIFF 2024
13th Dharamshala International Film Festival is bookended by Cannes Grand Prix winner ‘All We Imagine As Light’ & Nepal's Deepak Rauniyar's ‘Pooja, Sir’; will screen Rima Das' Village Rockstars 2 & Dibakar Banerjee’s ‘Tees’, among 24 (of 45) feature films by women.
ENTERTAINMENT
Meiyazhagan review: Karthi & Arvind Swamy show a humane masculinity in Prem Kumar’s heartwarming tearjerker
Meiyazhagan movie review: In this Tamil film, now on Netflix, Arvind Swamy & Karthi breathe life to director C Prem Kumar's wholesome & deep characters, making us love men, who are vulnerable & kind, the ones this world and our films have forgotten all about.
ENTERTAINMENT
MUBI review: In Shishir Jha’s meditative Dharti Latar Re Horo, Santhalis sing of Adivasi co-existence & displacement
Darbhanga-raised Shishir Jha's award-winning docufiction, The Tortoise Under the Earth, which released on MUBI, is a poetic rumination on the human condition, deep in the jungles.
ENTERTAINMENT
Tigmanshu Dhulia says ‘Short films energise artists’ creative juices’ at MAMI Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: Bollywood director Tigmanshu Dhulia on his LargeShort Films original 'The Promise', cast Jim Sarbh and Priyamani, making short films and why dialoguebaazi was enjoyable in 1970s Bollywood.
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Gul Panag says ‘We need to tell bite-sized engaging stories which give closure’ at MAMI Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: Producer Gul Panag and director Lakshmi R Iyer talk about their LargeShort Films original 'Aloo Bhujia', starring Rannvijay Singhla and Arnav Maggo. Panag says she’s ‘open to producing a new film out of nowhere with a new filmmaker or work with a new producer’
ENTERTAINMENT
MAMI Review A Fly on the Wall: Nilesh Maniyar & Shonali Bose’s soul-crushing documentary freezes friend Chika Kapadia’s wilful death on film
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: Late Chika Kapadia, who was also a standup comic, is full of life in a documentary on his assisted suicide following terminal cancer. Nilesh Maniyar & Shonali Bose's directorial premiered at Busan, showed in Mumbai and goes to Dharamshala.
ENTERTAINMENT
MAMI Angammal Review: Perumal Murugan’s Kodithuni adaptation is powered by a superlative blouse-defying Geetha Kailasam & Periyar
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: After 'Ponniyin Selvan' success, the time is ripe for Tamil literature in Tamil cinema. Vipin Radhakrishnan's 'Angammal', which premiered at Focus South Asia, MAMI 2024, brings Perumal Murugan's short story 'Kodithuni' to life. Murugan has a lot more to offer, filmmakers.
ENTERTAINMENT
MAMI Taak Review: Jyoti Dogra knocks it out of the park as a failed athlete turned bouncer in Kafkaesque surveillance state
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: Cinematographer Udit Khurana's directorial debut, the mid-length 'Taak', on female bouncers at a Delhi nightclub, starring theatre actor Jyoti Dogra & Ambika Kamal, is a meditation on women's lives & acts of surveillance impinging on individual rights.
ENTERTAINMENT
‘Anurag Kashyap opened the market for us’: Kohrra AD & Ballad of the Mountain maker Tarun Jain says ‘children’s content is universal content’
Tarun Jain, whose Devbhoomi-based short fiction 'Ballad of the Mountain' on childhood dreams & caste divides, which premiered at MAMI Mumbai & goes to DIFF Dharamshala, has been shot by cinematographer Karan Thapliyal, who went to the Oscars two years in a row.
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MAMI 2024: Suruchi Sharma’s short film Gagan Gaman shows how folk riddles keep Rajasthani women on their toes
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: National Award-winning Jaipur-based filmmaker Suruchi Sharma talks about her proclivity for folk forms, short fiction 'Gagan Gaman' (Skyward) at MAMI, award-winning documentary 'Meen Raag', OTT docu-series 'Equals', and Grammy-headed music video 'Reproduction'.
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MAMI 2024 Gala: Sharmila Tagore returns to Bengali cinema after 15 years, told Puratawn director Suman Ghosh ‘don’t be lenient with me’
MAMI Gala Premiere: US-based economics professor-cum-filmmaker Suman Ghosh on Puratawn (The Ancient), talking films with economist Kaushik Basu, making Amartya Sen documentary, his censored film 'Aadhaar', and downfall of Bengali cinema and literature.
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MAMI 2024 | Midhun Murali: ‘We wanted Kiss Wagon to emulate the feeling of anime and the confusing subplots of religious books’
MAMI Mumbai Film Festival: Kiss Wagon, director Midhun Murali and collaborator Greeshma Ramachandran's IFFR Rotterdam awarded Malayalam animation, screens thrice at MAMI's South Asia Competition at PVR Juhu, and then goes to IFFK Kerala.
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Busan BIFF: Nidhi Saxena’s lyrical ‘Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman’ acutely shows ‘Cinema is not the medium to tell stories’
Exclusive: Jaipur's Nidhi Saxena, the first Indian woman to get Asian Film Fund and premiered her debut feature 'Sad Letters of an Imaginary Woman' at Busan International Film Festival 2024, says, ‘Our films don’t talk about women’.
ENTERTAINMENT
Snakes & Ladders review: Karthik Subbaraj-backed Tamil dark comedy series on teen friendships & adult deceit is humourless
No children were harmed in the making of this Tamil dark thriller Snakes & Ladders, a debut series directorial of Bharath Muralidharan, Ashok Veerappan and Kamala Alchemis, and no children should cause any harm after watching it.
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What to watch at MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2024: ‘This year, MAMI is just MAMI, not Jio MAMI’, MAMI goes independent
MAMI 2024, from October 19-24 in Mumbai, is bookended by this year's Cannes Film Festival winners and peppered with more than 110 films many of which are prestigious global film festival winners from 45-plus countries, in 50-plus languages.
ENTERTAINMENT
How Amitabh Bachchan’s golden voice made stars out of dialogue writers
Amitabh Bachchan, Salim-Javed’s poster boy for Angry Young Man and Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Mellow Matured Man, who turned 82 on October 11, was a philosopher’s stone for his dialogue writers: Javed Akhtar, Kader Khan, Inder Raj Anand, Gulzar, and more.
LIFESTYLE
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art ventures into drama, brings to Delhi the new KNMA Theatre Festival
KNMA Theatre Festival: Curated by Bengaluru actor, director and filmmaker Kirtana Kumar, the inaugural edition of the theatre festival, to be held in Delhi's Sunder Nursery from October 16-20, will deep dive into contemporary theatre, in form, style and content.
ENTERTAINMENT
Why Mithun Chakraborty deserves Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Is it too early or long overdue?
Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Over 350 films in four decades, People’s Star Mithun Chakraborty ruled the Class, Mass and Crass cinema, won three National Awards, including for his debut art film, his Disco Dancer was Bollywood's first Rs 100 crore grosser, and he’s the undisputed King of low-budget B-movies
ENTERTAINMENT
Docufiction on Odia educator Padma Shri Nanda Prusty is first Odia film at South Korea’s Platform Busan
Busan International Film Festival: At Platform Busan, Odia filmmaker Pranab Kumar Aich will look for distributors and programmers for his debut docufiction ‘Nanda Mastern'ka Chatasali’ and pitch his next film on environment.
TRENDS
Laapataa Ladies vs All We Imagine as Light Controversy Explained: Why India doesn't get the Oscars
Oscars 2025 watch: India selects Kiran Rao's sophomore Hindi film Laapataa Ladies as its official Oscar entry while sidelining two award-winning Malayalam films, Anand Ekarshi's National Award winner Aattam and Payal Kapadia's Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light
