The mahatma and the movies
How Mohandas Gandhi pictured films and how films—both documentary and fiction—pictured him
Mint Lounge / January 2018
Film writer, Mint Lounge
How Mohandas Gandhi pictured films and how films—both documentary and fiction—pictured him
Mint Lounge / January 2018
‘All These Sleepless Nights’ joins a select group of documentaries that mix fact and fiction to beguiling effect
Mint Lounge / January 2018
What we'll remember Indian cinema in 2017 by
Mint Lounge / December 2017
The 75th anniversary of the film comes at a time when there is renewed focus on the refugee in cinema
Mint Lounge / December 2017
The termite art of Rajkummar Rao
Mint Lounge / August 2017
A cinematic culture built around passionate discussion finds expression in charged classroom scenes
Mint Lounge / July 2017
From ‘About Elly’ to ‘The Salesman’, the Iranian director has honed his distinctive approach to the family-drama-turned-psychological-thriller
Mint Lounge / March 2017
On 7 July, 1896, in Mumbai's Watson’s Hotel, India began watching movies
Mint Lounge / November 2016
On the 25th anniversary re-release of Salaam Bombay, Mira Nair looks back on the making of the film
Time Out Delhi / March 2013
How the first year of a tough censor regime is pushing film writers to mind their language
Mint Lounge / March 2016
Manoj Bajpayee's journey, from Belwa to 'Aligarh'
Mint Lounge / December 2015
How ‘Ode To Joy’ found resonance in world politics
Mint Lounge / September 2015
Amit Trivedi is the circus tent under which music fans of different feather can gather
Mint Lounge / July 2015
The unique stardom of Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Mint on Sunday / August 2015
Gurvinder Singh on his sophomore effort, Chauthi Koot, which screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes
Mint Lounge / May 2015
Come Oscar night, the spotlight will be on Richard Linklater and Wes Anderson. Yet, the fact that they've been nominated is a victory in itself.
The Sunday Guardian / January 2015
Footsbarn Travelling Theatre brings Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs to India
Time Out Delhi / November 2010 / [Pdf , 4.46 MB]
On Gulzar's tryst with the item number
Motherland / July 2014
The slapdash charm of In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones
GQ / July 2014
India in early non-fiction film
The Caravan / July 2014
Why Pulp Fiction is the greatest film since Pulp Fiction
The Sunday Guardian / May 2014 / [Pdf , 5.86 MB]
VK Murthy (1923-2014)
BLink / April 2014
Treasures from the Films Division vault
The Indian Quarterly / February 2014
The life and times of Neecha Nagar, the only Indian film to have won the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival
The Big Indian Picture / May 2013
On kindred spirits Pauline Kael and Lester Bangs
PopMatters / September 2013
On February 7, 1914, a paying audience laid eyes on Chaplin's Tramp for the first time
The Sunday Guardian / February 2014
Lou Reed (1942-2013)
The Indian Express / November 2013
The long shadow of India's best gangster movie
GQ / September 2013
How Matthew McConaughey became interesting
GQ / March 2014
The legend of Gef, the talking mongoose from Delhi
Time Out / October 2011 / [Jpg , 498 KB]
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