CinemaScope

The Taj Story: Why Myth-Led Cinema Is Harming Public Understanding of History

When a film chooses to revisit a contested piece of history, it steps into a fragile intellectual space where creativity collides with responsibility. The Taj Story, a recent courtroom...

Dharmendra Remembered: How Bollywood’s Most Human Superstar Became India’s Favourite Hero

Film star Dharmendra lived a full and complete life. He was unapologetically himself—a man with a golden heart...

Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound: A Stark, Unfiltered Look at Muslim Marginalisation and Caste Reality

Although I have always been a film buff, I hadn’t gone to a theatre in a long time....

The Untamed Soul of Indian Cinema: How Ritwik Ghatak’s Art Still Speaks to Our Times

The World Cinema Project has restored, among other films, Titas Ekti Nodir Naam by Ritwik Ghatak. Martin Scorsese,...

How India’s Symbol of Love Is Being Twisted into a Tool of Hate

The Taj Mahal, regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is one of the major...
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Legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee breathes his last at the age of 85

Kolkata: In the late 80s came a Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay novel 'Nana Ronger Aalo'. Still a school student with a deep desire to make films,...

How soccer’s loss became Hollywood’s gain

For over a month, the 1965 film The Hill was on my watchlist. I kept pushing back, for a variety of reasons. Saturday evening,...

I wonder where the crowd that had camped at Jantar Mantar for days in 2012 against the rapists has disappeared today-Anubhav Sinha

Who would know the road to evolution better than filmmaker Anubhav Sinha? A mechanical engineer from Aligarh Muslim University, Anubhav, bit by the film...

Saransh: Daddy’s comeback has no Arth

Before watching Sadak 2, I watched Sadak once more to renew the memory. It was of course a hit back in 1991 but what...

Bombay gets a classy presentation

Everyone in their childhood read about the hare and the tortoise, and the story was taught with a lesson that slow and steady wins...

Vidyut’s hunt for his lost love is worth a watch

My wife got a call yesterday morning that she lost her aunt to Covid. Later, another call mentioning that her father, despite being a...
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