cinema

In Search of an Audience

Kaveree Bamzai

If mainstream Bollywood is a well-maintained expressway, it also has several highways and service lanes which carry movies to audiences, says Anubhav Sinha

Home Is Not Elsewhere

Divya Unny

An animated documentary recounts the story of an Afghan refugee. The Danish filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen tells Divya Unny why he chose animation to reveal his classmate’s story

Varun Dhawan: From Boy to Man

Kaveree Bamzai

Varun Dhawan marks the tenth year of his career in Bollywood with a role that balances humour and drama, proving that the likeable star can also be an actor who wants to make good cinema

Evolution Of the Role

Madhavankutty Pillai

Marriage, pregnancy and the changing stature of the Bollywood heroine

Cruel Rhea-lity

Kaveree Bamzai

Well, if you’re Rhea Chakraborty, you still try and keep your chin up

The Evil Eye

Rachel Dwyer

The evolution of curses in mythology and cinema

Rashmika Mandanna: The Nation’s Sweetheart

Kaveree Bamzai

She is a well-known name in Bollywood even though not a single film has been released in Hindi so far

The Return of Sonali Bendre

Kaveree Bamzai

She chose to return after a brief hiatus to television, as an actor and a reality show judge

The Mystique of Tabu

Kaveree Bamzai

She has been sensual and subservient, rustic and cosmopolitan. She is as much at ease in a lavish BBC series as she is in her latest, a Hindi horror comedy blockbuster where she plays a ghost