The cry of the city: poverty, power, and the monkeys of Lutyens'  New Delhi in ‘‘Eeb Allay Ooo’’ directed by Prateek Vats © by film critic Lalit Rao (FIPRESCI)     Director Prateek...

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  FICCI FRAMES 2025, 05: Padma Shri Akshay Kumar and Ayushmann Khurrana, BA FICCI FRAMES the annual Media and Entertainment Convention event, was held over two days, October 07 and 08, at the...

Kantara, A Legend, Chapter 1: All’s well that ends in a Well How many times can you scream out long war-cries in a film that is 168 minutes long? Theoretically, maybe around 2,520 times. Kantara, A...

Sunny Sanskari ki Tulsi kumari, Overview: Funny Kalamkari ki Bhari shikari Okay, so you need to look up the word ‘kalamkari’. No, you don’t. I will do the needful. ‘Kalamkari’ is a form of printing...

Tu Meri Poori Kahani, Overview: Future to the Back Presenter and co-writer Mahesh Bhatt, director Suhrita Das and music director Anu Malik make an attempt to espouse the cause of films of yore, that...

  Filipino cineaste Mike De Leon’s Kisapmata (1981) is a family tragedy as well as a national allegory about patriarchy, possession, and death © by film critic Lalit Rao...

Kantara, Chapter 1, press meet: A Legend at Land’s End A young man worked in Andheri West, Mumbai as an office boy, and, later, as a driver, in 2008. More recently, he started making films, in his...

  Cinema as the seventh art, at its most inspired, often turns the camera back upon itself, or upon its cousins in the performing arts, to explore how illusion and reality collide. From Mrinal...

Homebound, Review: A treasure found Neeraj Ghaywan took ten years to make his second feature, after the universally acclaimed Masaan. Much was expected from this tremendously gifted writer-director....