Anand Patwardhan

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.

Ram Ke Naam maker Anand Patwardhan’s historic personal turn in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

The veteran documentary filmmaker’s latest film Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam/The World is Family, which won Best Editing Award at IDFA Amsterdam 2023, is a remembrance of things past: of pre-Independence India through his family’s history.

TIFF 2023 | Anand Patwardhan: ‘It is up to each person to take the better aspects from our cultural past’

One of the top draws at the ongoing 48th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was the much-anticipated TIFF Docs premiere of the veteran award-winning documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan's new film, 'The World is Family (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam)'.

Rise of the Indian documentary: Journey to the Oscar-nominated 'Writing With Fire'

Writing With Fire's Oscar nomination follows a strong documentary filmmaking movement in the last decade.

Kerala HC nod to screening of Anand Patwardhan's documentary 'Vivek'

Granting permission, subject to conditions, Justice Shaji P Chali directed the Kerala government to ensure that no law and order situation arises due to its screening.

Service charges: To pay or not to pay, that is the question

The Department of Consumer Affairs released an advisory on January 2 which said that the ‘service charges‘, which restaurants include in addition to taxes, are actually optional and not mandatory.

Filmmakers return National Award to support FTII students

Eminent filmmakers Dibakar Banerjee, Anand Patwardhan and eight others today returned their National Awards in solidarity with the protesting FTII students and against growing intolerance in the country.