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FESTIVALS: RAM KUMAR SHAPES SILENT ARCHITECTURES

Cosmic Heart Gallery presents Architect of the Abstract, a curated selection of Ram Kumar’s mixed media works on paper, revealing the lyrical power of his non-representa...

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TRENDING: SALUTING KASHMIR’S RULE-BENDING SINGER RAJ BEGUM

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Danish Renzu on his widely-acclaimed gentle and poetic film Songs of Paradise  Songs of Paradise, directed by Kashmiri filmmaker Dani...

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FESTIVALS: SHISHIR SHARMA SHINES WITH TRIUMPH

Veteran actor Shishir Sharma wins Best Actor for Kuch Sapney Apne at DCSAFF, Washington DC, marking the film’s twelfth international accolade and reinforcing its powerfu...

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Bollywood

BOLLYWOOD: FIRE, FOLKLORE, FLIGHT, AND FEAR

A Many-Splendored Tale of Magic, Memory, and Myth:  Raam Reddy’s Jugnuma fuses magical realism, myth, and memory into a visually stunning yet ambiguous fable, with ...

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TRENDING: SCANDAL THAT SHOOK THE WORLD

Khalid Mohamed unspools the shocking adulterous affair in the extra-conservative era of post-independence India, and Europe, between the legendary filmmaker Roberto Rossellini...

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BOLLYWOOD: WHEN HISTORY MEETS HISTRIONICS

Using violence, it feeds into the stereotype, The Bengal Files weaponizes memory and history, turning past wounds into present propaganda, amplifying outrage while masqueradin...

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FESTIVALS: GAY FAMILY DRAMA GOES GLOBAL

The acclaimed and award-winning Hindi feature film Kuch Sapney Apne, centred around a gay couple and their family members, shot in India and Sweden, is all set to screen at th...

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BOLLYWOOD: THE NEW BLOCKBUSTER PHENOMENON

Attention Saiyaaara’s Dazzling Debutantes...Your Time Starts Now!! Monojit Lahiri pulls back in an attempt to focus on a film that’s become a monster hit, blitzing...

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BOLLYWOOD: SAME OLD LOVE STORY RETURNS

North Meets South, Clichés Meet Screen: Kerala Endures Yet Again! A tired cross-cultural romance that recycles clichés, Param Sundari offers postcard Kerala aest...

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TRENDING: COMPLEXITY, NUANCE, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS & SHAM

From Aryan Khan’s debut to Dhadak 2, Heart Lamp, and fifty years of Sholay, this article by Sharad Raj critiques postmodernism, plagiarism, caste commodification, and ne...

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TRENDING: TIMELESS LIGHT AND LIVING MEMORIES

At Piramal Gallery, NCPA, I revisited Bombay’s cultural past through the lens of t...

October 16 2025

BOLLYWOOD: ARYAN KHAN BREAKS BOLLYWOOD RULES

“I am in love with your wife (Maya)!” — a line from Kabhi Alvida Naa K...

October 15 2025

ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: AND THE LEGACY LIVES ON

Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Ramu Aravindan, founder of a Documentation Centre an...

October 14 2025