Durga Puja Special

For many years now I have enjoyed Puja in Bombay, the city of our adoption like thousands of probasi Bengalis. The Bengali community was once close, everyone knew ...

The Portrayal Of Violence Against Women In Indian Cinema

It has become something of a cliché to claim that the 1950s was the golden age of Indian cinema, and that during the 1950s, we had more women-centric films than at o...

Suchitra Sen - Revisiting Icons

Standing at the far end of the room she resembled a house wife in a simple cotton saree. A few gold bangles twinkled musically round her wrist. That plump figure was out of...

Special Screenings, Workshops & Celebrities make a cinematic Saturday to remember at 6th Jagran Film Festival

~ Showman Subhash Ghai engages film enthusiasts in a ‘Master Class’ ~

~ Neil Bhoopalam conducted...

Kadambari' Wins Best Film Award At Washington South Asian Film Festival

“Kadambari”, a Bengali film centred around Kadambari Devi, sister-in-law of Rabindranath Tagore with whom he is supposed to have had a close personal relationsh...

Rajkumar Hirani, Imtiaz Ali, Kalki Kochelin, Kundan Shah, Nilesh Maniyar grace Jagran Film Festival Day 3

~ Much awaited Jagran Shorts unfold the ultimate shot of short films.  Screening of ‘Birdman’ brings Country focus on US ~

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Great Time For Women In Cinema But It’s Still A Man’s World, Says Sushmita Sen

Sushmita Sen, who is returning to TV as a judge for Comedy Superstar (she was last seen on Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena in 2008) has plans to make a comeback to Bollywood, too. Sh...

Women Set To Dominate At London Indian Film Festival 2015

From the tale of a persecuted rights activist hounded from her home to Shabnam Sukhdev’s moving study of her father, this year’s programme foregrounds work by a...

Delhi Bids Farewell To 6th Jagran Film Festival

Film celebrities Divya Dutta, Piyush Mishra, Gulshan Grover, Saurabh Shukla and Kunal Kapoor and Sriram Raghavan graced the closing da...