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All That Breathes’ co-cinematographer Riju Das: ‘Shaunak, the editors were three kites hovering over a landfill of footages, carefully choosing’
Riju Das, one-third of the cinematographers on Shaunak Sen's 'All That Breathes', has won the Best Documentary Award at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards. In this interview, Das talks about shooting the Oscar-nominated documentary, which missed out on the Academy Award that went to 'Navalny'.
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Sundance to IFFLA 2023: Reema Maya on short film 'Nocturnal Burger' & her three alter egos
Aka Reema Sengupta, a maker of advertisements, music videos and short films, the creative creature talks about her punch-in-the-gut short on child sexual abuse and shared female trauma, 'Nocturnal Burger', which premiered at 2023 Sundance Film Festival and screens at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles this week.
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When AR Rahman made Buddhadeb Dasgupta change his opinion about '90s Hindi film music
The contemporary musical taste of 'Sacred Games' composer Alokananda Dasgupta differed from her late father's, parallel cinema auteur Buddhadeb Dasgupta, who'd have stepped into his 80th year today, but the twain converged on AR Rahman.
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Grammy nominated Berklee Indian Ensemble founder Annette Philip: 'To be in the same category as Anoushka Shankar, Angélique Kidjo is unreal honour'
Berklee Indian Ensemble's 'Shuruaat', nominated for Best Global Music Album at the 65th Grammy Awards, features 98 musicians and a celebration of Indian music, but a very global Indian sound. Philip and Delhi duo Shadow and Light, who've collaborated on one of the tracks, talk about its making, representing India globally, and music and artist rights.
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When Pathaan star John Abraham called this actor to polish his Hindi for the Shah Rukh Khan blockbuster
Dialogue coach Vikas Kumar, aka ACP Khan from 'Aarya', is responsible for Jim to hold his own in 'dialoguebaazi' in 'Pathaan'. Kumar, also an actor and indie-film producer, speaks about his Bihar-to-Bollywood journey, why stars need Hindi coaching and the imposition of Hindi as national language.
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Jio MAMI 2023: How Chinese vessels & global warming impinge on Mumbai Koli economy in this Sundance winner
Sarvnik Kaur’s Against the Tide, the 2023 Sundance World Cinema Documentary Verite Filmmaking Special Jury Award winner, is the only documentary in South Asia Competition at Mumbai Film Festival next week.
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Who's the Oscar winner The Elephant Whisperer's co-cinematographer who's at the Academy Awards second year in a row?
Delhi boy Karan Thapliyal, co-cinematographer on the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary short 'The Elephant Whisperers', returned to the Academy Awards this year after his co-shot 'Writing with Fire' became the first Indian documentary film to win an Oscar nomination last year.
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'We are different; we must talk about that. For me, my identity is not a handicap, it’s my heritage': French-Lebanese filmmaker Chloé Mazlo
Chloé Mazlo's first feature film, a personal story, inspired from her grandmother's life, 'Skies of Lebanon' will be the closing film of the French Film Festival, showcasing 'Women Directors from France', on January 23 in New Delhi.
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Oscar winner The Elephant Whisperers' co-cinematographer Anand Bansal on how everyone's honesty made the film singular
Kartiki Gonsalves' Oscar-winning Netflix documentary short, 'The Elephant Whisperers', has been shot by four cinematographers, one of whom, Anand Bansal, speaks about wielding the camera and his various projects
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Did Nadav Lapid episode lead to NFDC MD Ravinder Bhakar's ouster? Know who's replacing him
A Ministry of Information and Broadcasting order, dated January 11, the same day as Golden Globe Awards 2023 announcement, states that Prithul Kumar is replacing Ravinder Bhakar as the new, interim, National Film Development Corporation managing director.
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Six iconic Hindi film songs of Oscar winner RRR's Naatu Naatu’s Pan-Indian composer MM Keeravaani
Here are the iconic '90s-2000s Hindi-film songs of Oscar winner and Naatu Naatu composer MM Keeravani, aka MM Kreem, who was synonymous with haunting love songs in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and in Hindi in the post-RD Burman decade.
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Golden Globes 2023: Is RRR’s ‘Naatu Naatu’ win India's Vishwaguru moment? No, it isn't a great song
India's first ever Golden Globe win feeds into its geopolitical 'Vishwaguru' stance. Such a global craze for a song was not seen even when 'Jai ho' won the Oscars. There's wider acceptance of anti-colonial narratives like 'RRR' now in the Western world. But, its legendary composer deserved a better song for his global recognition
ENTERTAINMENT
27th IFFK reviews | A joyland of their own: Ektara Collective's 'Ek Jagah Apni'
Bhopal-based Ektara Collective's second feature film, 'A Place of Our Own', winning FFSI KR Mohanan Award and a Special Mention for the actors at the 27th International Film Festival of Kerala is a win for the trans community but also a win for socialist filmmaking.
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27th IFFK | Small town, big itch: In 'Amar Colony', Siddharth Chauhan turns a female gaze at desire
Chauhan's Shimla-set debut Hindi feature indie won a special jury award at Estonia's Tallinn Black Nights Festival and is premiering, in Indian Cinema Now segment, at the ongoing International Film Festival of Kerala.
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27th IFFK | Sanal Kumar Sasidharan: ‘My films have changed me, they are messages to myself, to purify myself’
In this exclusive interview, Malayalam independent filmmaker Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, often seen as a provocateur, who went to jail this year, speaks about his new film 'Vazhakk' at IFFK, his films mirroring his life, his arrest and 'stalking' case and the Malayalam film industry.
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27th IFFK 2022 | 'Meeting Malayali audience's expectation is very challenging': Artistic director Deepika Suseelan
Curtain Raiser | The 27th International Film Festival of Kerala, from December 9-16, promises a cornucopia of cinematic celebration across the ages, from world masters Béla Tarr, Paul Schrader, Emir Kusturica to Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Lijo Jose Pelliserry, and more.
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Goldfish review: Deepti Naval and Kalki Koechlin's relationship with dementia hits home
Pushan Kripalani's sophomore 'Goldfish', a story of dementia, difficult mothers and daughters, unresolved trauma, and cultural identity, that premiered at the 53rd International Film Festival of India in Goa last year, released in theatres on Friday.
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The rise of Darbhanga wave: Three filmmakers, stories of home and Bihari cinema
What's unique about independent filmmakers Achal Mishra, Parth Saurabh and Shishir Jha, spotlighted at the Dharamshala International Film Festival earlier this month, is that they are not here to just make their own films but that of others too, by steering an ecosystem
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Friday Release | Of Bengal, Babri and Boyhood in ‘Dostojee’
Prasun Chatterjee's feature debut 'Dostojee' (Two Friends), which screened at Dharamshala International Film Festival and released in theatres today, is both a film for children and adults and harks back to old-world Bengali cinema, politics and friendships.
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DIFF 2022 | Parvathy and Rima Kallingal's paranormal tryst in ‘Lalanna’s Song’
With her new short film 'Lalanna's Song', with Nakshatra Indrajith in the titular role, filmmaker Megha Ramaswamy spins yet another beguiling, bizarre tale of spaces women inhabit, operate, oppress and combust in and the remains of the day from the meteoric collision of the adult's and child's worlds.
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DIFF 2022 | Into the dark alleys of Varanasi in 'Jhini Bini Chadariya'
Ritesh Sharma's Hindi feature debut, The Brittle Thread, shot in the city of Varanasi and showing at the 11th Dharamshala International Film Festival, is a song of lamentation for a way of life
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Review | Before Kantara came Meghdoot, Rahat Mahajan’s mythological tragic love story
Much before Rishab Shetty fused folk performative art and cinema, independent filmmaker Rahat Mahajan, who competed for the prestigious Tiger Award at this year's International Film Festival of Rotterdam, deployed the visual grammar to write a teen romance
ENVIRONMENT
Just Stop Oil: Vandalism is resistance and climate protesters have a hit list
Van Gogh and tomato soup may have made the headlines, but climate change activists, in the Western world, are equal opportunity disruptors. Banks, oil companies, car showrooms and sports tournaments, have faced the ire of climate protesters.
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Beyond Ponniyin Selvan: 6 other novels by Kalki Krishnamurthy
Kalki Krishnamurthy and Ponniyin Selvan are a cult in Tamil historical fiction, read the gargantuan novel after watching Mani Ratnam's magnum opus film, but if that sounds daunting, read Kalki's other shorter novels, straddling the historical, social, and romance. Here, we list six of them
