Cinema

Bombay Talkies

Ajit Duara

These four shorts films are a beautiful tribute to Hindi cinema

Karan Johar’s Gay Revolution

Madhavankutty Pillai

The filmmaker may have taken a realistic turn with homosexuality in Bombay Talkies, but he deserves credit even for silly gay portrayals in commercial films like Dostana

The Invisible Legacy of ‘Art Films’

Shaikh Ayaz

Parallel cinema of the 1970s and 80s remains influential in Bollywood though chances are you will not notice it

In the Beginning There is an Opening Scene

Ruchi Sawardekar

After Aamir and No One Killed Jessica, Raj Kumar Gupta’s third film, Ghanchakkar, is going to hit the screens in June. While the earlier films were hard-hitting gritty fares, Ghanchakkar is a darkly humorous, quirky entertainer. Gupta speaks about realism, changing genres, working style, creative process and his evolution as a filmmaker

Aashiqui 2

Ajit Duara

A heart-wrenching romance that may even make you believe

Ek Thi Daayan

Ajit Duara

An entertaining and entirely irreverent ghost story

Nautanki Saala!

Ajit Duara

A delightful film falls apart in the second half

The Happy Quitter

Shaikh Ayaz

Kai Po Che star Sushant Singh Rajput dropped out of his engineering course and a successful theatre and television career to boot, and even has a back-up plan to run a canteen in Film City in case cinema begins to bore him

Chashme Baddoor

Ajit Duara

David Dhawan is surely aware of the empty-headedness of his film

The Camera Has Stopped Rolling

Dhananjay Khadilkar

It has never been easy for India’s most powerful documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan to screen his films. He has now decided he will make no new films till people get to see his earlier ones