Since its entry in 2016, Netflix has announced over 60 titles to be sourced from India.
'The source of our music, the very notes of music itself have fallen silent.'
Condemning the police crackdown inside Jamia Millia university, several film industry insiders, including one from Hollywood, on Monday rallied behind the university's students and said the government is trying to stifle voices of dissent against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2021.
The difference between watching a movie on a laptop in your apartment and watching it on a big white screen is almost spiritual, notes Sreehari Nair.
'Deeply flawed, Sacred Games and Mirzapur come nowhere close to representing the diversity of stories from this country,' says Vikram Johri.
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Small-town India shines right through in these movie gems.
A Death in the Gunj is not a happy film at all times, but it is very entertaining says Aseem Chhabra.
As much as Rs 4,300 crore was generated by 2019 movie releases. But 2020 is all set to be bigger and better!
'It is a male-dominated show, but that does not mean that the female characters do not stand out.'
The top posts on social media from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Sukanya Verma lists the movies she grabbed at MAMI this year.
'For us outsiders, the first break comes with a lot of difficulty.' 'In case of people from the industry, the first couple of breaks are taken care of.' 'They are guided and taught while we have nowhere to look for guidance.'
'I don't remember the last time I was this invested in the characters of a story since Doordarshan's golden age or early days of cable television boom,' applauds Sukanya Verma.
'The idea is to sideline you, box you up in a smaller box, so you don't go out of that.' 'The bigger boxes are for their own people.'
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at the movies!
... And sometimes, that's enough, says Sreehari Nair.
60-plus men and women who live independent lives are becoming the cynosure of ad men's eyes.
'Chhapaak is definitely the most challenging film of my career.' 'I have gone through many emotionally challenging experiences, but none affected me the way it did when I played an acid attack survivor.'
'People thought I am doing this for promotions, but I wouldn't do that.' 'I have better things to do and better ideas to promote myself.'
Despite its many problems, A Death in the Gunj is an important work says Sreehari Nair.
...But a comedy about Class Wars. Sreehari Nair tells us why.
'This is a film that trumpets out its sex -- it is content in being a girl's version of the archetypical boy's locker-room picture.' 'And if it was just that, that would have been fun too, but Lipstick Under My Burkha doesn't want to affect your senses, it wants to control your mind!' Sreehari Nair comes away unimpressed.
A big part of October's charm is in its taking of a cinematic tragedy and presenting to us how we may experience it in real life, says Sreehari Nair.
Lootera is a gorgeous, gorgeous film, one that uses its period setting affectionately, with loving detail, and not exploitatively, as our cinema is wont to do.
What if we these popular American television series were made in India?
