'I thought of a suppressed country and a free world.' 'If we travel from one to another, what will that road look like?' 'What colours, music there will be? What kind of people would you see?'
Let's revisit the landmark women and moments from India's Miss World history.
Aseem Chhabra's Top 10 Films/ Series from TIFF 2024 includes films that he watched for the first time in Toronto. The films were impressive due to their rigor, passion, unique storytelling style and sometimes exploring the vulnerable sides of big name stars.
It was heartening to see so many women -- young and old, many in hijab and burqa shaking their bodies, raising their arms and singing with complete abandonment.
Filmmaker Anurag Basu, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D'Cruz took their film Barfi! to the Marrakech Film Festival in Morocco.
Sonam Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal and others at the screening of Punjabi film Chauthi Koot.
This is your guide to nailing sexy-sophisticated-chic. Angry Indian Goddesses, Sacred Games, Trial By Fire, Joram.
Hansal Mehta's Scoop won in two categories at the 2023 Busan Film Festival's Asia Contents Awards and Global OTT Awards.
November 14 will see a film fest including 109 films from 34 countries.
Katrina wishes Sunny... Plabita's pretty pictures... Laxmi Raai glows...
Anu Vaidyanathan has never passed up an experience life has to offer her.
When mainstream Hindi cinema is preoccupied with romance, comedy, horror and action, stories about sisters and brothers are very rare. Vasan Bala has made a first-of-its-kind film where the leads play sister and brother, notes Aseem Chhabra.
The event will have an Indian Panorama section, an Asian Competition section.
Aseem Chhabra picks Indian and other South Asian gems at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Producer S P B Charan talks about the censor board issue that his film faces.
Debutante director Thiagarajan Kumararaja talks about his award-winning film.
Reader Chetna Gola sends us a photograph.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite films, most of them shown at international film festivals held virtually (Berlinale and Rotterdam), hybrid (Toronto) or physical (Cannes and Venice).
The song Kahaan Se Karein Shuru has been composed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee.
'There's this presence, a sense of patrolling and surveillance. And it's not coming from a place of safety.' 'It's coming from a place of 'You don't belong here'.' 'It's a malevolent force, the society at large is observing them.'
'To see India being recognized at a global level at a platform like this... 'I think it says a lot about where we are as a nation and the road ahead for us as a nation.'
'The Iranians are very resilient people. So even when they are throttled, they try their best to survive.'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
How many of the 319 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2018 have you seen?
'Not only the poor in India want sons, but even in the Indian community in the US and Canada. The more educated they are, the more access they have to money and use of technology in gender choice.'
Harami is described as a 'hard-hitting, visually striking street saga of youth crime and broken destinies, love and redemption'.
'We didn't expect the film to be recognised at this level; we focused on making an honest and simple film.' 'We didn't have any expectations even like being appreciated at festivals.'
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'This has never happened. And not to mention the bisexual angle as well. You hope that it'll speak to people because after a while you forget about the disability and you look at the person and that's the point of the film.'
How many of the 354 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2017 have you seen?
'In 2015 I watched films in so many places. I attended several film festivals around the world -- Berlin, Tribeca (New York), Telluride, Toronto, Zurich, Mumbai, Dharamsala and Goa,' says Aseem Chhabra, author of a forthcoming book on Shashi Kapoor.
Paruthiveeran, by Ameer Sulthan, was honoured with a "special mention" from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) at the 58th Berlin International film festival.
'I used to be embarrassed and think what will my friends say if I wiggle my hips.' 'I used to seek comfort in the fact that Meena Kumari and Nutan couldn't dance.' 'I think that was a mistake.'
Aseem Chhabra tell us how he watched 302 films in 365 days on airplanes, on Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Google, Hulu, DVDs and even on YouTube.
Aseem Chhabra gives us the top films that enriched his year.
Iram Haq's What Will People Say is a deeply relatable story of family values at odds with a modern culture.
'The point about arranged marriages is -- because I come from a progressive family -- the idea was completely alien. But I have realised over time that there are instances of assisted marriages working very well. If you look at it, really, in a microcosm, it is the same thing as Tinder, isn't it? I mean, if you are trying to meet -- yes, no, yes, no, no.'
India is shining, although I will argue that it is a temporary acceptance until India once again makes a mega-successful film like RRR or another beautiful, moving, documentary like The Elephant Whisperers, notes Aseem Chhabra.
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