'Sudip sir keeps telling me that what I have done is very Hollywood.'
Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies has been picked as India's official entry for Oscars 2025.
Paatal Lok 2 breaks the second season curse and spins yet another engrossing mystery, observes Mayur Sanap.
'Unfortunately, we live in a 'Mainstream Bollywood' bubble, where we cannot look beyond films that we ourselves find entertaining.'
'Indian life is full of chaos. So it captures the cultural chaos quite beautifully and lightly.'
Director Jahnu Barua -- who made the award-winning 2005 film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara --gets candid during an award ceremony in Pune.
Music School tries hard to make a case -- like 3 Idiots and Taare Zameen Par before -- to let children follow their artistic passions and not try to fit them into pre-set moulds, to which people might nod their heads in agreement before packing their children off to coaching class, notes Deepa Gahlot.
Amazon Prime Video has announced a huge number of assorted Web series and movies, and the slate sure looks interesting.
Noted filmmaker Jahnu Baruah recounts his first experience with the late music legend.
Know more about the extraordinary filmmaker of films like Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta and Sujata.
Mumbai Cutting has been directed by some of the most reputed directors like Sudhir Mishra (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi), Jahnu Barua (Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara), Ayush Raina, Shashank Ghosh (Waisa Bhi Ho Raha Hai Part II), Ruchi Narain (Kal), Rahul Dholakia (Parzania), Manish Jha (Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women), Revathy (Phir Milenge), Kundan Shah (Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron), (Rituparno Ghosh (Raincoat) and Anurag Kashyap (Black Friday).
A plea for a separate time zone for the north east region to match its productivity, progress and prosperity with the rest of the country was made by internationally-acclaimed film maker Jahnu Barua on Saturday. "The time difference between the eastern-most and western-most borders of the country is more than two hours. The NE region gets daylight much before the rest of the country," Barua said.
The critically acclaimed Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara remains one of those many landmark films is his career. Keeping the audiences psyche in mind, winner of several national and international awards, Assamese filmmaker Jahnu Barua is gearing up for his next directorial venture- Har Pall.
A hard-hitting interview with Maine Gandhi Ko... director Jahnu Barua.
Preity Zinta, Dharmendra and Shiney Ahuja are in the city to shoot for Jahnu Barua's (of Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara) movie Har Pal.
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and Prince Karim Aga Khan were among the eminent personalities awarded the Padma Vibhushan, country's second highest civilian honour, by President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on Wednesday.
'Assam is not a dumping ground for Bangladeshi Hindu refugees,' says Assamese actor Ravi Sharma who joined the BJP in August and quit the party on December 10 in protest against the Citizenship Act.
...Because the students have made our industry worthy, Salman Khan explains.
Government has no plans to create a separate time zone for 7 North Eastern states, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
'Gajendra Chauhan may be a good administrator, or even a good leader, but he lacks the basic quality of inspiring others.'
Here's a list of all the Padma award winners
'I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.'
At the helm of the Film and Television Institute of India, the government wants someone who could devote more time
Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade.
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Parinda, 1942: A LOve Story, Devdas, Kareeb, Mission Kashmir, Munnabhai MBBS, Rang De Basanti, Delhi 6, Bhag Milkha Bhag, Kalank... all bear the visual stamp of Binod Pradhan's genius.
Bollywood's fortunes might not hinge on Pakistani actors and singers, but the forced ban on them sends out a disturbing message.
Filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who as FTII chairman was himself gheraoed by students, gives us his point of view on the crisis facing India's premier film school.
Music composer-singer Bappi Lahiri offers a sneak peek into what to expect in his US concerts this month.
'I defy all the controversy. For me, it is meaningless. They say the students are unhappy that I have been appointed as the head of FTII. They have not seen my work so how can they be unhappy?' Gajendra Chauhan tries to justify his appointment to head the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India.
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