Mattress Matters: A small and simple film won five awards at the International Film Festival of Kerala, including the Audience Choice award. Feminichi Fathima (Feminist Fathima) is the debut Malayalam language feature…

While celebrating women achievers and leaders, we sometimes overlook some of the pioneering women in our own city. In just the areas of Girgaon and Gamdevi in Mumbai, there was…

Shadow Play: A small police station in serene Panchgani. Not much crime except maybe theft. Then a man walks in claiming his wife is missing. It does not seem possible,…

Postcards from India As a tribute to Shyam Benegal who passed away on December 23, 2024, a flashback to one of his rare comedies  Charming, earthy and witty, Shyam Benegal’s…

Growing Up : Shuchi Talati’s debut feature captures all the angst of growing up, the ache of desire, heartbreak and the inevitable coming of age amidst bitter drama. In Girls Will…

News To Go: Hindi films tend to portray journalists as honest jholawalas, who often put their lives on the line to expose corruption, hold those in power accountable, fight social evils,…

Music First: The first season of Bandit Bandits (2020) was a family drama, with music at its centre. The story about a classical music purist Panditji (played by Naseeruddin Shah), his estranged…

On Location: Hollywood has seen quite a few behind-the-scenes documentaries about the making of films, which have mostly been included in the DVDs of those films as bonus content, and some…

Fighting Fire: Soldiers and police officers have been lionized in many films; Rahul Dholakia’s Agni (on Amazon Prime Video) asks why firefighters, who also risk their lives to save people,…

Back in 1962, KA Abbas made a film called Gyarah Hazaar Ladkian about the problems of working women in Mumbai. The leading lady is in the dock for murder, and when…