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Hamlet to Bhumika: Benegal and Bombay’s theatre world

Hamlet to Bhumika: Benegal and Bombay’s theatre world

Designing masks and make-up of over 20 actors who went on stage for Hamlet was a massive task that Shyam Benegal had taken upon himself

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Ritwik Ghatak Birth Centenary: Cloud-capped star, auteur of Partition

Ritwik Ghatak’s films and writings humanised the art of cinema on an epic scale

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In Gujarat, Gandhi lives on in stories, in craftsmen

In Gujarat, Gandhi lives institutionally and instinctually. Gujarat has always offered a strange mix of responses to Gandhi

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Reel life in the dark room of Emergency

As the nation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, the numerous instances of pushback should be remembered.

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A poet with camera, and his cinema of humanism

Shaji N Karun's cinematography was a weave of aesthetic as warp and ethos as weft

04.05.2025 10

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Films as representations of history & social reform

Maharaj, a Hindi film being streamed on Netflix, depicts the deception of regulation camouflaged as reform, which keeps the status quo (patriarchy)...

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