Indian cinema

The Tamil Villain

Karthick RM thinks it’s time we paid more attention to the villain in Tamil cinema.

4 years ago

Titillation and perversion: the cis lens of Super Deluxe

Arvind argues that this widely loved Tamil film does a grave disservice to trans people.

4 years ago

Tawaifs and Hindi Cinema

Nihira discusses the history of tawaifs in India, their relationship with Hindustani music and Hindi cinema.

4 years ago

India on Film: Fascinating, but half-hearted

Ramakrishnan M. writes about the newly released documentary India on Film, pieced together from archival footage.

4 years ago

A gun, some blood, and Mysskin

Ramchander writes on Mysskin’s film Onaayum Aattukkuttiyum and translates passages from the filmmaker’s book about the film.

4 years ago

Dancing with herself

Sthira Bhattacharya thinks about why two dance sequences from Indian cinema of the 90s have stayed with her.

4 years ago

Kalyani’s act of courage

Parshathy J Nath speaks to Garggi Ananthan, who played the lead role in the Malayalam film Run Kalyani.

4 years ago

Off the beaten track

An interview with journalist and author Namrata Joshi

4 years ago

Soldiers of Cinema

An excerpt from Reel India: Cinema Off the Beaten Track, a nonfiction book by Namrata Joshi.

4 years ago

Soft men

Anusha writes about the men in Eeb Ally Ooo! and Nasir.

4 years ago

Looking into a girl’s mind

Sanjana watches Roopa Rao’s Kannada film Gantumoote and draws her thoughts.

4 years ago

The complex trinity of women in Parasakthi

Shakila Zamboulingame analyses the representations of women in this iconic Tamil film from 1952.

5 years ago

Telling stories about ‘the rest’

The team behind Baaki Pictures talks to us about documentary filmmaking.

5 years ago

Making of Asvagosh, the documentary: An interview with Vamsi & Uma Kathir

The World of Apu speaks to Vamsi and Uma Kathir, the makers of a documentary on Tamil writer Rajendra Cholan.

5 years ago

Bombay Rose: On patriarchy and the Indian male

Ramchander has questions after watching Gitanjali Rao's animated film.

5 years ago

Mysteries of Monsoon

Sripad Sridhar shares his experiences as a wildlife photographer and filmmaker.

5 years ago

The Eyes of the Beholder

Vaishnavi's short story is about an Amitabh Bachchan fan who has a terrible secret.

5 years ago

Poomani’s Vekkai & Vetrimaran’s Asuran – From novel to screen

A.Ramasamy presents his take on the adaptation of a Tamil novel into a film.

5 years ago

Amitava Nag’s Heroes and Heroines

A few questions for the author on his new book.

5 years ago

An old man and a solitary man

Ramchander writes about Bharathiraja’s OM and Parthiban’s Oththa Seruppu, screened at Singapore South Asian International Film Festival.

5 years ago

Snapshots from DALIFF 2019

Aswin Ramachandran attended the Dalit Film and Cultural Festival (DALIFF) in New York earlier this year, and wrote about it…

6 years ago

Female Characters for the Ages

Anuradha Warrier writes about the women in the progressive cinema of Nav Ketan.

6 years ago

IFFC 2019: A Voice of Rebellion

P. Lakshmi Narayanan attends the Independent Film Festival of Chennai 2019.

6 years ago

Interview with Gurvinder Singh

Iniyavan Elumalai, our press correspondent at IFFR 2019, chats with filmmaker Gurvinder Singh.

6 years ago

A stream of thoughts inspired by Zarina Begum…

...and her performance of ‘Nazar Lagi Raja Tore Bangle Par’, Richard Singer writes.

6 years ago

Competing victories: Battle of sensibilities in Tamil cinema

Madhu watches two contemporaneous Tamil movies and writes about them.

6 years ago

Why aren’t we talking about Indian Parallel Cinema?

Omar Ahmed makes an impassioned plea for us to pay attention to the films that constituted this movement.

6 years ago

In conversation with Chezhiyan

This interview with writer-cinematographer-director Chezhiyan touches on a wide range of topics—world cinema, realism in cinema, independent cinema, current trends…

6 years ago