movies

The Dibakarian Way of Life

Shaikh Ayaz

Director Dibakar Banerjee on the politics of his films, his commitment to cinema as an art form and why he can’t bear to watch his own films

The League of Extraordinary Critics

Anupama Chopra

These reviewers have become my favourite companions

The Oscar Cheat Sheet

Anupama Chopra

Our best guesses for the Academy awards this year

Box-Office Followers

Anupama Chopra

The danger of reducing movies to money

An Easy Escape

Anupama Chopra

Is going to the movies the same as going to a nightclub?

My Undying Love Affair

Anupama Chopra

Why, after so many years, am I so in Bollywood’s thrall? It’s the stories, really. The ones you never see turned into films

Five of My Favourites

Anupama Chopra

There are some films that never leave you. Here is my selection of a few unforgettable ones

Man, Wife and Cinema Set

Open

Abbas and Pakhi Tyrewala on working together… and the lies they tell each other

Three Men in a Theatre

Shyam G. Menon

The astonishing story of three young men who got addicted to Hollywood in the late 1940s and could not give it up as they slowly became old men and the world around them changed.

Ear for the Ordinary

Rahul Bhatia

In a film, you hear sounds other than dialogues and music: the hum of a lift, a sofa creak, a dog bark. These sounds come from improbable places. They are works of invisible artists called Foleys