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'Mastery' on Disney+ Hotstar: Subodh Kerkar, Sarah Todd & 9 artists talk about India and their art in a new docu-series
Disney+ Hotstar documentary series 'Mastery', directed by Mriidu Khosla of Zcyphher Films and produced by Stonex Group, features 11 modern Indian artistes across forms and geographies.
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Guru Dutt special: How Bollywood films remember the legacy of the ‘genuine auteur’ who faced cancel culture
Guru Dutt centenary begins: Ahead of his 99th birth anniversary, and stepping into his 100th, on July 9, here’s a look at the legendary actor-director-producer’s cinematic heritage and his influences and tributes in Hindi films.
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Madan Mohan centenary: Lag Jaa Gale & 19 more evergreen songs of the legendary Hindi film composer
Madan Mohan 100th birth anniversary: Bollywood's legendary Iraq-born composer, who would have turned a century on June 25, was known for his Hindustani classical-based songs and ghazals in film music. Here is a list of 20 popular songs from his oeuvre.
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Madan Mohan centenary: Remembering the composer, his jugalbandi with Lata Mangeshkar and his 11 ‘eye’ songs
Madan Mohan 100th birth anniversary: The musical axis of Bollywood's legendary Iraq-born composer, who would have turned a century on June 25, revolved around his 'raakhi' sister Lata Mangeshkar and the recurring imagery of 'eye' in his oeuvre.
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Paradise review: Darshana Rajendran knocks it out of the park in the Roshan Mathew-starrer which probes male psyche, Sri Lankan crisis and Ramayana
Paradise Movie Review: Shot by Rajeev Ravi and edited by Sreekar Prasad, in Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage's exquisite Malayalam film, a philosophical study that builds like a thriller, a marriage and society crumbles.
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Pushtaini review: Vinod Rawat’s gentle story of homecoming and hill life is inspiriting yet bumpy
Pushtaini movie review: Presented by Hrithik Roshan, and directed by acting coach and Aarya co-director Vinod Rawat, this debut about returning home to find oneself, is a tender, personal script that needed a few revisions.
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RD Burman Birthday: Remembering Pancham and his seven Bengali 'puja' songs which became Hindi superhits
Happy Birthday RD Burman: The lesser-known fact about the legendary music director RD Burman, or Pancham, who'd have turned 85 today had he not died 30 years ago, is that he debuted as a Bollywood composer and a 'Puja song' composer in the same year, and some of those Bengali compositions became runaway hits in Hindi films.
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National Award winner Miriam Chandy Menacherry: ‘I belong to a generation that began the new wave of Indian documentary cinema’
70th National Film Awards: Miriam Chandy Menacherry has won the Best Non-Feature Film Direction for her documentary film 'From the Shadows', on missing girls and girl child sex trafficking. She talks about making her ‘toughest film’ and the documentary movement in India.
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MIFF 2024 | Nishtha Jain: ‘We are living in a post-industrial world and the factory worker has little space in our discourse’
At Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), June 15-21, watch National Award-winning documentary filmmaker Nishtha Jain's film 'The Golden Thread', on the dying jute industry and the absence of human welfare in our environmental concerns.
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MIFF 2024 | Chidananda S Naik: ‘Medicine itself drew me towards art; while we delved into anatomy, I often pondered about emotions and feelings’
The 2024 Cannes' La Cinef winner, Mysuru filmmaker Chidananda S Naik, whose FTII diploma film 'Sunflowers Were the Last Ones to Know...' is in National Competition: Short Fiction at the ongoing Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF), talks about his journey.
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Varshangalkku Shesham review: Nivin Pauly’s cameo saves the day in Vineeth Sreenivasan’s tribute to cinema and friendship and dig at nepotism
Varshangalkku Shesham comedy drama review: Vineeth Sreenivasan’s well-intentioned, good-hearted, humorous at times but insipid film about friendship, starring Dhyan Sreenivasan and Pranav Mohanlal, released on SonyLIV.
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Blackout review: Between robbing gold and becoming a cuckold, Vikrant Massey takes us on a long drive in this comedy crime caper
Blackout comedy thriller review: This directorial by Devang Shashin Bhavsar, which released on JioCinema on Friday, starring Vikrant Massey, Sunil Grover, Mouni Roy, Jisshu Sengupta, Chhaya Kadam, Ruhani Sharma, Prasad Oak, is a light-minded watch.
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Exclusive: Meet Divya Prabha, a lead in Payal Kapadia’s Cannes Grand Prix winner ‘All We Imagine As Light’
Cannes 2024: How Malayalam actress Divya Prabha landed a lead role in All We Imagine As Light, which won the Grand Prix, the first Indian film to win the second-highest award at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival
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When FTII slapped Cannes Grand Prix winner Payal Kapadia with disciplinary action, FIR and cut her grant
All We Imagine As Light won the Grand Prix, the second-highest prize, at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. This is the first Indian film to win the Grand Prix ever. Kapadia's win made India and FTII proud, the same FTII that cut her film grant and slapped disciplinary action on her in 2015.
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Cannes 2024: Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light scripts history, becomes first Indian film to win Grand Prix
All We Imagine As Light is the first film in three decades to enter the Main Competition section at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Anasuya Sengupta becomes first Indian actor to win Cannes' Un Certain Regard Best Performance award
Kolkata-raised Anasuya Sengupta, one of the leads in Konstantin Bojanov's Hindi film 'The Shameless', is the first Indian artiste to win the category's top acting honour, marking a significant milestone for India at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Before her, Baby Naaz received a Special Mention (child actress) for her 'Boot Polish' in 1955.
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India's Chidananda S Naik wins Cannes La Cinef first prize for Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know, Mansi Maheshwari wins third prize
Cannes Film Festival: Chidananda S Naik is a doctor who joined FTII, Pune, to pursue filmmaking. Chidananda made his FTII diploma short film 'Sunflowers Were the First Ones to Know...' over four nights.
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Cannes 2024 Exclusive: 'The Shameless' actor Tanmay Dhanania on his Un Certain Regard film, independent cinema and Bollywood hegemony
'Scoop' actor Tanmay Dhanania, for whom Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov's Un Certain Regard-premiered neo-noir ‘The Shameless’ was his first ticket to Cannes Film Festival, talks about Indian indies and Hindi film industry’s systemic problem.
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Exclusive: Meet Anasuya Sengupta, first Indian to win Best Actress at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, for her queer thriller ‘The Shameless’
Cannes 2024: Kolkata-bred Anasuya Sengupta, awarded best performance for Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov’s film, was the production designer on 'Masaba Masaba', 'RAY', 'Brahman Naman', and returns to acting after 15 years since 'Madly Bangalee'
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Exclusive: How 'The Shameless' actor Omara Shetty, from Katrina Kaif-starrer 'Phone Bhoot', went to Cannes with her lesbian love story
Cannes 2024: 'The Shameless', a Hindi film made by Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov that screened in Un Certain Regard, is a queer love story and neo-noir revenge thriller on the world of Indian sex workers.
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Cannes 2024: Why Bulgarian director Konstantin Bojanov made Hindi queer noir 'The Shameless', shown in Un Certain Regard
77th Cannes Film Festival: 'The Shameless', a lesbian love story ensconced in a neo-noir revenge thriller spotlighting the world of Indian sex workers, premiered in Un Certain Regard, and bagged the Best Performance award for one of its lead Anasuya Sengupta, the first Indian actor to get the award.
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Cannes 2024: Who is Ladakhi filmmaker Maisam Ali whose film 'In Retreat' is India's first ever selection in Cannes' ACID?
FTII, Pune alumnus and Payal Kapadia's batchmate, the Iran-born Ladakhi Maisam Ali's debut feature 'In Retreat', about home and disconnect, starring Harish Khanna, is the first ever Indian film to be screened in Cannes' ACID sidebar.
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Cannes Classics: Why Shyam Benegal’s 'Manthan', India’s first crowdfunded film, produced by 5 lakh farmers, was also an Emergency movie
Nearly 50 years since its release, parallel cinema pioneer Shyam Benegal's Manthan, restored by Film Heritage Foundation, premiered at 77th Cannes Film Festival and will release in theatres across Indian cities on June 1; bookings begin on Monday.
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HFF 2024: Documentary on Guwahati's iconic Assam-type house archives its famous inhabitants, the Baruas, and their contribution to Assamese culture
National Award-winning filmmaker Utpal Borpujari's new documentary, 'The House of Baruas/Baruar Xongxar', which captures Assam's famous Baruas and their contribution in Assamese films, music, sports, screened at Delhi's Habitat Film Festival this week and will next compete at New York Indian Film Festival this month.
