Monday 10 September '07
So you thought A-list denizens of Bollywood love a cause? That didn’t turn out to be quite the case when Mira Nair, one of India’s most feted directors, went about making a film on the AIDS epidemic.Sunday 9 September '07
A screen adaptation of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, a Sony Pictures Classics title, has got the buzz going for it. The film’s NSD-trained lead actress tells eye whySunday
2 September '07A week away from the world premiere of Before the Rains, his first English-language film aimed at the global market, cinematographer-director Santosh Sivan is on the threshold of a major career leap.Sunday
22 July '07An offbeat rural satire, an international espionage drama and a long-in-gestation opera adaptation on the brink of revival—Shyam Benegal is set to end a two-year hiatus with a probable triple whammySunday
22 July '07A-list contenders? Far from it. But Indian-American actors in the US entertainment industry have never had it so good. The South Asian brigade has begun to alter the onscreen colour palette of primetime television and mainstream movies just enough to make a visible differenceSunday
8 July '07Technique and inspiration, blockbusters and little gems, experiments and rigour: top-notch film editor A. Sreekar Prasad’s craft is a seamless blend of dramatic contrasts...Sunday
27 May '07With a day to go for the 60th Cannes Film Festival to wind up, all eyes are on the nine-member jury headed by British filmmaker Stephen Frears. Will the jurors pull an unknown...Sunday
27 May '07Hollywood stars stole the show on the Riviera. But Irrfan Khan shone bright. More importantly, A Mighty Heart, the cinematic rendition of the Daniel Pearl story, delivered a mighty blow for the cause it espousesWednesday
23 May '07Amitabh Bachchan’s arrival here on Monday may have been confined to the sidelines of the 60th Cannes Film Festival, but the visit of the Bollywood megastar did not go unnoticed.Tuesday
22 May '07Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker’s expose of the US healthcare system sets Cannes Film Festival abuzzSunday
20 May '07UTV Motion Pictures, riding the crest of a wave generated by the worldwide success of Mira Nair’s The Namesake, is in Cannes this year in search of further global conquests with two completely divergent films...Friday
18 May '07Curator who chose India package says like Iranians, Indian directors need to tie-up with foreign producersSunday
15 April '07A new breed of young women filmmakers is here to rewrite old scripts. While most are unwilling to be slotted by gender and determined to make their mark, is Hindi cinema finally ready to let them take centrestage?Sunday
25 February '07Bollywood’s new breed of young film-makers have joined hands with hard-nosed yet creative producers to explore uncharted narrative terrain. Call them the director-entrepreneursSunday
26 November '06The playful Kajrare. The rustic Beedi. And now, Guru. Gulzar, at 70, is proving to be like wine. His lyrics just get more intoxicating with ageWednesday
25 October '06The question is whether, in this age of constant creative cross-pollination and rapid globalisation, such sarkari film awards are needed at allSunday
23 July '06Small town boy Vishal Bharadwaj transforms Othello of Veniceto Omkara of Meerut. It’s just the latest hurrah from a bunch of directors who grew up in “real”India, are making films about “real” India, and could endup changing the face of BollywoodSunday
25 June '06Their debut films didn’t work. But these promising young Bollywood directors hope to be back with a box office bangSunday
14 May '06How a failed suicide bid made Murali Thalluria filmmaker and took him to CannesSunday
9 April '06Being Cyrus mopped up a cool Rs 2 crore in its first weekend. So is the multiplex film movement finally getting somewhere?
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