cinema

Dilip Kumar (1922-2021): The Original

Kaveree Bamzai

With the flicker of an eyelash, an artfully displaced lock of hair, a careful modulation of his voice, he could make women swoon and men weep. Muhammed Yusuf Khan was the last of a gilded trinity that defined an era

From India with a Dream

Bhaichand Patel

Desi actors of another era who had made it big in Hollywood

Business Class Bollywood

Kaveree Bamzai

A $3 trillion economy does not have a substantial middle class that spends, which means the model of film consumption today is business class

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