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A recent controversy over wartime British prime minister Winston Churchill's role in the 1943 Bengal famine highlights the persistence of colonial attitudes

As the film celebrates 25 years, it shows us the possibilities of using cinema to imagine a utopian nation - and also the pitfalls of doing so

The film inspired many young people in the early 2000s, but rewatching it now seems to only inspire nostalgia

The 2010 Hindi film 'Raajneeti' showed the pursuit of power as an end in itself, and it has disquieting afterlives

Adapted from Tapan Sinha's Bengali blockbuster, 'Apanjan', Gulzar's debut feature captured the restless youth of the 1970s on screen

The 1998 Hindi film 'Saaz' apparently dramatized Bhosle's rumoured rivalry with elder sister Lata Mangeshkar - though both denied such claims

The blockbuster turns national service into a personal quest for revenge, without any critical self-reflection

His latest feature film, 'It Was Just An Accident', uses a child's morality to demand what it means to be human in a world shaped by power

Satyajit Ray's 1969 musical-fantasy film responded to a world on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe - with music and hope

Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film 'Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom' looks uncompromisingly into the horror of authoritarian rule

A 4K restored version of 1989 film 'In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones' will be screened at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival next month

Deepening inequality makes working-class lives increasingly precarious in India

The Ranveer Singh-led blockbuster is another example of Bollywood's appropriation for propaganda, but ubiquitous spy memes have diluted its gravitas

As Goa marks its Liberation Day this month, efforts to incorporate the former Portuguese enclave into India's mainstream culture continue relentlessly

As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the iconic Bollywood film 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge', the Indian diaspora that it had wooed is in troubled waters

As we enter the 100th year of the matinee idol, it is important to revisit his legacy without falling into the lure of nostalgia

Not surprisingly, rewatching Deewaar now is still an enriching experience

In Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light, the symbolic protest of two working-class women echoes a rich and radical tradition in Indian cinema

Western and Japanese artists found inspiration for post-humanist visions in the years following Hiroshima and Nagasaki

While an Indian documentary captured the hopes and fears of young citizens in 1967, a French film depicted the chaos