Before him there were great stars, and he has been followed by many, but none evoked the mass hysteria that he did at the height of his meteoric rise, the decade of the 1960s, spilling into the early 1970s
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A definitive history of Bengali cinema presents an alternative understanding to the currently influential notion of the Hindi film as the ‘Indian’ or ‘national’ cinema
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How Satyajit Ray both drew upon and ultimately altered Bengali film practice
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On the one hand we are, more than ever a vigilant and alert society; on the other, also, more than ever, paranoid and on-the-edge. That's what political instability in a mediatised world has driven us to.
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No, we are not talking smuggling, but films. No, not controversies involving underworld finance of the Mumbai film industry or extortion money demands, but a rather more positive collaboration...
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How comfortable can one be with the glorification of the project of 'development' and 'progress' mediated by a locus of raw power, which nonetheless claims to be a moral force?
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'Bollywood' may have become India's best known brand, but there seems to be an increasing tendency to subsume Indian popular cinema as a whole under the 'Bollywood' umbrella...
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Bande Mein Thaa Dam (The guy had guts), Bandemataram! goes the opening line of a song saluting Mahatma Gandhi in the just-released Lage Raho Munna Bhai...
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Heard any controversy on Mughal-e-Azam, the mother of all period films?Mumbai films sell, and, with globalisation, have made their presence feltinternationally. That, I suspect, is the root of the current debate on MangalPandey.
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