Whether they’re making art films or masala films solidly in the mainstream, the people in the movie industry are all the same: big dreamers. In India, their dreams have to be bigger than everybody ...

Anurag Kashyap, a name synonymous with gritty and unconventional cinema, has carved a niche for himself in the Indian film industry. From his early days as a writer to establishing himself as a ...

Their silk saris shimmering under the brilliant klieg lights, the shapely dancers swayed around the gaudy temple door. “Cut!” barked the director again and again. In a torrid Bombay movie studio one ...

Director Shekhar Kapur took to Instagram to reveal the one-chance remark that launched the journey of Bombay Dreams, and we ...

Come for the presents. Stay for the baggage.

December 17, 2020 — Film historian and media theorist Debashree Mukherjee speaks to journalist and writer Sidharth Bhatia about her new book Bombay Hustle and the idea of a "cine-ecology" in Indian ...

A killer game of hide and seek.