Aseem Chhabra ranks the Best of 2025's films that released in theatres, or went directly to OTT platforms.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
'Indian life is full of chaos. So it captures the cultural chaos quite beautifully and lightly.'
'In Angamaly Diaries, dreams, kinks, small corruptions, cheap lives, and hopes are all given their due and that attitude frees us up to believe that perhaps there is more good than bad in the sum total of us.' 'This is a coming-of-age tale taken straight out of a diary written in blood,' says Sreehari Nair.
Bengali film Asha Jaoar Majhe is a must watch, a once in the lifetime kind of work that should be supported by film lovers and experienced on the big screen, writes Aseem Chhabra.
We are back to being a country that talks about box office numbers as the measure for what an audience's real feelings about a movie are, laments Sreehari Nair.
Raja Sen feels The Lunchbox id this generation's Masoom.
Lovingly made, heartfelt stories that speak the truths about our lives.
Producer Sasikumar talks about his association with Balu Mahendra and how much he was missed on the momentous occasion of winning a national award for Thalaimuraigal.
'You need to be very passionate towards life, not because you are a film-maker, but because you are a human being.' 'If you can do that, then I think it reflects in the films that you make.'
Aseem Chhabra hails possibly the best Indian film in recent times.
August 26, 1955. 65 years ago, Pather Panchali was released. Aseem Chhabra salutes the Masterpiece.
Shaji N Karun on helming the Malayalam film Kutti Srank which won a National Film Award for Best Film.
The cinematographer-turned-director has quite two projects lined up.
Aseem Chhabra picks Indian and other South Asian gems at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Lovers of good cinema should not miss this opportunity to watch one of the best Indian films of 2016, raves Aseem Chhabra.
Madhur Bhandarkar lists his top ten Indian films of all time.
Art director Sabu Cyril lists his favourite Indian films.
The Kannada director sends in his list of India's Best Films.
The cinematographer lists some of the best films made in India.
Director Pradeep Sarkar's list of the best Indian films of all time.
A mixed bag of Marathi, Bengali and Hindi films.
The cinematographer lists the best Indian movies he has seen.
Besides the five Indian films that are playing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year -- a rather large collection at an international film festival, says Aseem Chhabra -- there are more films with an Indian connect.
Ghai talks about his pick of the all-time best Indian films.
Most critics have picked this film as a favourite that should be sent to the Oscar awards
Small-town India shines right through in these movie gems.
Sreehari Nair presents his Top 20 movies of the decade.
'This is a movie, which if you allow it to, will wash itself all over you, so that you emerge from it a little drenched but wide awake,' says Sreehari Nair.
Aseem Chhabra looks at the year's best Non-Hindi Indian movies.
Siddharth Chauhan, winner of the Satyajit Ray Award
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