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Cannes in Support of Films made by Dissident Directors

The 71st Annual Cannes Film Festival is scheduled to be held from 8 to 19 May 2018. Asghar Farhadi's psychological thriller Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem, Pen&e...

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Hollywood

'The Rider': Probably One of the Best Films of 2018

In Chloé Zhao's second movie, The Rider, which debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, we see Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), the protagonist. He was a rod...

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Alternative Entertainment

Celebrating National Street Theatre Day

Safdar Hashmi (12 April 1954 – 2 January 1989) was a communist playwright and director, best known for his work with street theatre in India. He was also an actor, lyric...

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Maacher Jhol wins a National Award for Best Animation Film

Maacher Jhol (the Fish Curry) directed by Abhishek Verma, on the theme of parental acceptance of a LGBTQ child, has won the Best Animation Film at the recently announced ...

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Winds of Change

“Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone. If your time t...

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Bollywood

Nandita Das ‘Manto’ Makes it to the Cannes This Year

Director Nandita Das' Manto, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, has been selected at the Cannes Film Festival under the ‘Un Certain Regard’ section. The film also stars...

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Director Amit Masurkar – Newton focuses on the power of a common man.

“I don’t see myself smarter than the audience, hence I don’t assume”, said Amit Masurkar in an engaging masterclass with the aspiring filmmakers and cr...

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Technology to help tackle Human Crises

Driven by war and fragile states, over 65 million people worldwide are forcibly displaced. The majority of them come from Syria, where the brutal conflict of civil war, now 6 ...

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Hollywood

Celebrating the Women behind the Camera

In this age of Netflix, Hotstar and Amazon Prime, there's a unique streaming service called MUBI which I am sure not many would have heard in India. Unlike the other streaming...

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Festivals

The First Annual Interplanetary Festival in Mexico

The first annual Interplanetary Festival will draw space enthusiasts from around the world for a two-day celebration of human ingenuity on June 7 and 8, 2018, in Santa Fe, New...

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THOUGHT FACTORY: CELEBRITIES AND RIGHT TO PRIVACY

From Mystique to Masses: How Modern Media Transformed Stardom into Spectacle. Monojit La...

November 26 2024

POLITICS: A NATION AT CROSSROADS AND APATHY

India stands at a crossroads, grappling with economic disparity, political polarization,...

November 24 2024

GENDER: HOW PATRIARCHY SILENCES RESISTANCE

Patriarchy persists by co-opting privileged voices, masking systemic exploitation in ind...

November 23 2024