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A Tale Of Epic Proportions: Cinema And Ramayan In The Last Century

Arjun Narayanan
5mo Culture
Ramayana on screen through the 20th Century.

Kashmir Files, Kantara Feature In Oscar’s Reminder List; A Step Closer To Nominations

Swarajya Staff
11mo Movies
Indian films eligible for Oscars

[Long Read] Movies In 2022: A Civilisational Perspective

Aravindan Neelakandan
11mo Culture
Pawankhind poster

Year-Long Celebrations Of Satyajit Ray's Birth Centenary In India And Abroad

Arun Kumar Das
3yr News Brief
Satyajit Ray with Ravi Sankar music recording for Pather Panchali  in 1955.

Permission For Film Shootings At Archaeological Sites On Fast Track To Help Industry In Covid Times

Arun Kumar Das
3yr News Brief
Khajuraho temple.

Before Baahubali, What? Netflix Answers With Two-Season Prequel

Swarajya Staff
5yr Insta
Baahubali

‘Yesterday’s Films For Tomorrow’: A Great Tribute To India’s “Celluloid Man” P K Nair

Gautam Chintamani
6yr Magazine
Nargis, Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar in a scene from <i>Andaz </i>(Mehboob Khan/Wikimedia Commons)

Hollywood Has ‘Dunkirk’, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Etc.; What Does Indian Cinema Have?

Mayuresh Didolkar
6yr Culture
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How Three Moments Defined Bahumukhi Om Puri

Vivek Agnihotri
7yr Culture
Om Puri, left, as Ahuja in <i>Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron.</i>

Om Puri: The Angrier Young Man

Gautam Chintamani
7yr Culture
Actor Om Puri at the ‘West Is West’ premiere held at Roy Thomson Hall during the 35th Toronto International Film Festival in 2010. (Photo by Vito Amati/Getty Images for Icon)

2017 Wishlist: Getting Our Cinema Out Of Dumbing-Down Pit And Making Films That Connect 

Vivek Agnihotri
7yr Magazine
A still from the movie Dangal (Source: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7YlGv9u1g">Dangal Official Trailer</a>)

A Sanskrit Film On Gender Equality And Oppression? Yes, There Is One

Swarajya Staff
7yr Culture
Ishti’s Facebook page

Franz Osten: But For This German Maverick Your Average Hindi Film May Not Have Been ‘Invented’

Gautam Chintamani
7yr Culture
Franz Osten (HarperCollins Publishers India, B D Garga, Silent Cinema in India: A Pictorial Journey)

Male Superstars Of Hindi Cinema: Trapped In Stardom?

Gautam Chintamani
7yr Ideas
Photo: Lisa Maree Williams / Stringer/ Getty Images

Raman Raghav 2.0: The Most Depraved Indian Film Ever Made 

Sandipan Deb
7yr Culture
Photo: Wikipedia

Cannes: India Needs The Big Award

Biswadeep Ghosh
8yr Culture
The Palme d’Or (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP/Getty Images)

The Greatest Story Ever Retold

Biswadeep Ghosh
8yr Magazine
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Stopping by the Woods

Biswadeep Ghosh
8yr Culture
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Baahubali’s Avantika, Popular Cinema And Indian Feminism

Paulami DuttaGupta
8yr Culture
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