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This Forgotten Pioneer Made India’s First Indigenous Film Camera From Scratch!
Baburao Painter refused to budge when people told him shooting at night won’t get him any results. One of the pioneering filmmakers of India, Baburao ignored the warnings, mockings, and accomplished...
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Lockdown Hack: 3 Filmmakers Share How They Kept Shooting, While Never Leaving...
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” -Arthur C Clarke, British science fiction writer Over the last few months, the...
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Credit De Do Yaar: 5 Songs Where Credit Wasn’t Given to Lyricists
In a video published earlier today, 15 lyricists from the Hindi film industry demanded that they receive proper credit for their work on music streaming platforms and YouTube channels. Titled ‘Credit...
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#Scam1992: The Journalist Who Exposed Harshad Mehta’s Rs 50 Billion Fraud
Harshad Mehta is in the news again. The mastermind of the 1992 securities scam which shook the Indian stock market is back in discussion after almost three decades with the teaser release of Sony Liv’s...
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From Riding a Bullock Cart To Owning an Airline: The True Story of Capt....
‘Soorarai Pottru’ is a Tamil movie starring actor Suriya, scheduled to release on Amazon Prime on November 12. Going by the trailer, the movie is an action-packed drama about a man from a village who...
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‘I Know What Suffering Means’: ‘Raazi’ Actor Who’s Helped 100+ Kashmiri Students
Calm, persistent and focussed is how I perceived actor Ashwath Bhatt’s character, Mehboob Syed in the spy thriller film, Raazi (2018). He portrays the role of a Pakistani army officer who eventually...
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Reel Vs Real: Meet the ‘Dead’ Man Behind Pankaj Tripathi’s Character in Kaagaz
Murda insaan (Dead Man) Abhi taaza taaza mare, abhi uth ke chal diye (A dead man just got up and left) This satirical dialogue from Kagaaz, which stars Pankaj Tripathi, was once the reality of Uttar...
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How a Grass Cutter’s Child Became Indian Cinema’s First Dalit Woman Actor
In 1930 (some say 1928), J C Daniel, known as the father of Malayalam cinema, directed and starred in Vigathakumaran (The Lost Child). The story was about Chandrakumar, who goes missing, and is...
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Malegaon ka Superman: A Spoof That Popularised A Small Town’s Film Industry
Malegaon ka Superman was released a decade ago. The film had no special effects, glamorous sets, superstars, smart gadgetry, mind blowing stunts or any filmmaking aesthetics. The movie was never part...
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Thane Coach who Trained Parineeti Chopra for Saina Nehwal’s Biopic is a...
Ever since Amole Gupte’s directorial biopic, Saina, on ace badminton player, Saina Nehwal released, everyone — from the media to netizens — are talking about how well Parineeti Chopra has embodied...
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National Film Awards Honours 68-YO Woman Who Ran Marathons Barefoot to Save...
Lata Kare from Baramati, Maharashtra first made headlines in 2013 when she ran the first marathon of her life, barefoot and wearing a saree, at the age of 60. She ran neither for glory nor to fulfil...
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Why Parents Must Watch This Documentary Before Sending Kids to Kota for Coaching
About 10 and a half minutes into freelance filmmaker Hemant Gaba’s National Award-winning documentary, An Engineered Dream, an IIT coaching academy teacher is seen telling a group of 15 to 16-year-old...
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Worked As A Waiter, Trained For Years: The Inspiring Story Of ‘Pagglait’...
“Yeh khana toh Astik bhaiya bhi na kha paaye. (Even Astik won’t be able to eat this bland food).” When Parchun, essayed by Aasif Khan, says this to Sandhya (Sanya Malhotra), in Netflix’s Pagglait, it...
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Kerala Woman Takes Love For Regional Films To Hollywood, Bags Golden Globe...
Sonal Naroth was in Class III when Ramji Rao Speaking (1989), a Malayalam cult comedy, became her favourite movie. Unlike children who are usually drawn to elaborate sets and action scenes with flying...
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Scorsese to Nolan: What 6 Legendary Filmmakers Said About The Inimitable...
Satyajit Ray’s cinema weaved together lyricism and realism like very few could. While many of his films are marked by stark realism, he never failed to capture the finer nuances of the human condition...
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Belgaum to Bollywood: The Man Behind Kamat Studios & Hindi Cinema’s Most...
Even after seeing the image of late actor Dev Anand playing a shiny drum set, it is hard for me to imagine him in Teesri Manzil (1966). Anand was the original choice for the desi crime noir film of the...
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Mimi: Lawyer Turns Director To Tell Client’s Surrogacy Tale, Wins 2 National...
Making a national award-winning film was never part of Samruddhi Porey’s plan. She is a graduate in microbiology and a lawyer by profession, but always loved storytelling as a child. In 2010, she...
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From Gangs of Wasseypur to Tumbad: What Being a Prosthetic Artist in Movies...
Years ago, I remember watching a movie starring Rekha called ‘Khoon Bhari Maang’ (1988). What stuck with me was Rekha’s look in the first half of that movie. As a visual medium, it is important that...
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Avantika Vandanapu: The 16-YO Making History As Disney’s 1st Indian-American...
“Spin shatters the stereotype that Indians can only thrive in STEM. We should not forget that our culture and heritage are very art-centric. We flourish not only in academics, but also in artistic...
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Engineer-Turned-Filmmaker Works with Pratik Gandhi, Rajkumar Rao; Wins...
Mikhil Musale, the director of Wrong Side Raju (2016) and Made In China (2019) tries hard to evoke his memory of his engineering days. But he is unsure if it was the frustration of being stuck in a...
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