Indian cinema

Payal Kapadia: Over the Clouds

Bhavya Dore

Payal Kapadia, the only Indian who competed at Cannes this year, on returning to old school technologies in filmmaking

Seeking Bollywood in Brazil

Rachel Dwyer

Indian soft power has to travel beyond familiar shores

Beiimaan Love Movie Review

Ajit Duara

The movie is a tactical and cinematic blunder

The Pleasures of Melancholy

Rachel Dwyer

It is a reflective sorrow, the mood of a creative person. It leads to the desire to be alone

Parched Movie Review

Ajit Duara

It is a nice looking film, but it is too self-consciously written and visualized to be credible

Razz Reboot Movie Review

Ajit Duara

Razz Reboot is a lazily made film, with wooden acting, and a shallow script

Is Iulia Vântur the One for Salman Khan?

Rajeev Masand

Rescue Mission | The Desperate Filmmaker

Social Chic

Sneha Bhura

Documentaries, long relegated to alternative screens, are now wooing multiplex audiences in India with unprecedented creative fervour

Bombay Talkies

Ajit Duara

These four shorts films are a beautiful tribute to Hindi cinema

The third of May marks one hundred years of the release of Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, the first ever Indian feature film. Paresh Mokashi, director of the Marathi film Harishchandrachi Factory, based on the making of Phalke’s film, recounts Phalke’s extraordinary adventure. As told to Madhavankutty Pillai