Current Issue
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.
When a film star becomes too powerful to be vulnerable, does cinema itself suffer? A critical look at Vijay and the star system.
On Growing Up with Lightning McQueen
SR Praveen about his book, Ticket to Kerala, film reviewing, and more.
April Issue
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
Running away from home and homecoming in Ritwik Ghatak’s Bari Theke Paliye (1959) are metaphors for the cataclysm of Partition
There is no real debate on hip-hop’s place within the general culture. Most think of hip-hop as being a […]
How do you see the world if you don’t move through it? Perhaps, you see it as it moves while you remain still.
If the spectator of Chechmeh could live the transcendental content of the film, the film itself could give the spectator the poetic depth that he/she wishes to see.
