Cinema

Paan Singh Tomar

Ajit Duara

Part docu-drama, this film tells the story of a forgotten hero with rare depth

Minding their Ps and Qs in Kahaani

Sohini Chattopadhyay

Making the unit behave itself in a horrifying morgue, enforcing the discipline of working in real locations, and the other prefect duties of director Sujoy Ghosh

The Artist

Ajit Duara

Never mind all those Oscars. This film is cute, not great. And the dog is the real Best Actor

Saeed Mirza Is Still an Angry Man

Shaikh Ayaz

The director of the seminal Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai on his career as a novelist, the West’s racist ideas and why he found films “very limiting”

That 70s Showman

Shaikh Ayaz

Milan Luthria, director of The Dirty Picture, on his fear of beginnings, love of dark characters and favourite Bollywood era

Ekk Deewana Tha

Ajit Duara

This unusual love story is somehow watchable for holding romance up to reality

Rishi is the least Kapoor-like of the Kapoors: shorn of the family mannerisms and preoccupation with their image. Now, on the eve of turning 60, he is getting the roles of a lifetime and relishing them too