How Tasneem Zakaria Mehta transformed Mumbai’s Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum into one of the country’s most buzzy and contemporary spaces for Indian art
Unfreedom and the difficulty of screening a movie that features lesbians in India
With her latest release, Zoya Akhtar reclaims her space as the storyteller of poor little rich people
The National Award-winning documentary Kapila revives popular interest in an ancient dance form by portraying it through the eyes of one of its most talented exponents in Kerala
Kaaka Muttai, a small film about two slum boys and their yearning for pizza, has struck gold at the box office and showcased a new language of filmmaking in Tamil
South Asian ‘a cappella’ bands have become a new craze on college campuses abroad
The nerdy immigrant with a strange accent is giving way to a different kind of Indian on American TV
Almost all of Bollywood’s hits this year have been modest budget films with feisty female protagonists
Neeraj Ghaywan’s debut set in the backdrop of the Ganga gets a glorious opening. The director in conversation with Open
Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan, the story of a former Tiger’s second life in France, rendered partly in Tamil, has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes