Beyond Bollywood: Teaching South Asian Cinema in an American Classroom
My objective was to take students beyond Bollywood by introducing them with other film industries in South Asia that are equally vibrant.
Dreams, Delirium, and Other Postcolonial Passions
The dream sequences of Uday Shankar’s Kalpana might offer an inroad into the very dream-scape of a nation passing from colony to independent nation.
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A Chimera of Epic Proportions
Nolan’s Odyssey tries to bridge two worlds – Homer’s and ours – which in the end proves a bridge too far.
The Indian Gaze: Raghu Rai’s ‘Darsan’
Chronicling life demands being in love; precisely the dictum Raghu Rai found himself bonded to, both as an ethic and in practice.
By Nirlep Singh Rai ·
S Janaki Amma: The People’s Singer
To me, Janaki Amma was the voice that carried me through exams, bus rides, heartbreaks, and joy
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A Pakistani Afterlife for Les Misérables
What arrives in Salakhain is therefore not quite the novel but its afterlife: a familiar arrangement of misfortune and moral arithmetic portable enough to cross languages, industries, and continents.
By Manahil Tahira ·
Blueness on the Waiting-Shore: Sirai and the Carceral Sangam
In Sirai, the Tamil song becomes the precise space where the nation’s carceral suspicion is answered — not with polemic argument, but with radical intimacy
By Swarnavel Eswaran ·
Inside IFAI, the Collective Taking on India’s Distribution Crisis
When we sat down with Kanu Behl on the day Agra opened in Indian theatres, it felt like one of those moments that might precipitate something bigger. Fortunately for Indian independent cinema, something bigger has precipitated.
Frankenstein’s Film Star?
When a film star becomes too powerful to be vulnerable, does cinema itself suffer? A critical look at Vijay and the star system.
By Niveditha K Prasad ·
On my Grief of Failing to Be – A Cars (2006) Retrospective
On Growing Up with Lightning McQueen
By Krishna Natesan ·
SR Praveen has Seen the Reels Turn: A Conversation on Malayalam Cinema
SR Praveen about his book, Ticket to Kerala, film reviewing, and more.
By Niveditha K Prasad ·
From Ragamala paintings to Hindi film songs: Spring as a Time for Love
The piece show how spring has been visualised as a narrative tool to show different stages of love–from yearning to the culmination of love
By Eshna Benegal ·
Getting lost in the city
Running away from home and homecoming in Ritwik Ghatak’s Bari Theke Paliye (1959) are metaphors for the cataclysm of Partition
