cinema

Every Woman’s a Tigress

Kaveree Bamzai

For Indian movies, these are still radical ideas, and who better than Balan, in her unsmiling, solitary alter ego, to articulate them?

Pan Nalin: The Return of the Native

Prahlad Srihari

Pan Nalin left his home in Gir Forest to pursue filmmaking. With his new movie, an elegy to a lost era of celluloid magic, he returns to Kathiawad. Prahlad Srihari in conversation with the director

Ramesh Sharma: Mahatma’s Messenger

Kaveree Bamzai

Ramesh Sharma’s award-winning documentary on the Gandhian concept of non-violence is gaining international attention

Sense of Entitlement

Kaveree Bamzai

The tragedy of second-generation starlings in Bollywood

Daniel Kaluuya: ‘People have had enough and a social awakening is occurring’

Noel de Souza

Daniel Kaluuya in conversation with Noel de Souza

The Pilgrim’s Progress

Rachel Dwyer

From the martyrdom of Thomas Becket to the holy relics of Hindi cinema

Sushant Singh Rajput: Forever Young

Kaveree Bamzai

It’s been a year since the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, a rising star who never quite fulfilled his early potential, but whose alleged suicide exposed much of the ugliness inherent in Bollywood’s beautiful people

Fear Is the Key

Kaveree Bamzai

Samantha Akkineni is one of the few actors to talk about the impostor syndrome

Two Is a Family

Kaveree Bamzai

Nearly two decades after their first indie film, and with a triumphant second season of The Family Man to their credit, Raj and DK are now Bollywood’s quirkiest storytellers