Indian Cinema

Toronto International Film Festival launches a film marketplace and an Oscar pathway as Indian films Angh, HALF and Dorothy feature in its 2026 line-up

Legendary playback singer S. Janaki, the 'Nightingale of South India', leaves behind an unmatched musical legacy spanning six decades and over 48,000 songs

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

Specialised investment funds are bringing institutional capital into Indian cinema, treating film IP and movie portfolios as a new alternative asset class

DAG's 'Faces and Facets' brings together photographs from Ghosh's 25-year association with Satyajit Ray, capturing the filmmaker at work, at home and on set

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

PVR INOX reported a strong FY26 recovery led by blockbuster films, rising footfalls and expansion into low-cost cinema formats across smaller cities

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

Ranveer Singh's Dhurandhar: The Revenge opens to massive response, with strong reviews, record bookings and early signs of a blockbuster run

At school, she recalls the focus was on girls' bodies and betrothal more than their brains: They were given rice to maintain optimal weight, while boys received books and toys

BS Manthan: Shekhar Kapur says AI is the most democratic tech in films, calls it widely misunderstood and says it empowers young creators to make movies faster and cheaper

Not every film can be a crowd-puller, but in over 80 per cent of India's pin codes, there aren't even screens for those interested

The ₹150 crore deal brings together Jio Studios and Sikhya Entertainment to scale Indian film content for global markets

Deepening inequality makes working-class lives increasingly precarious in India

The debutant directors talk about their first steps into filmmaking

As southern India turns myths into money, and as Mumbai flounders with a fluke hit here and there, another kind of cinema, rooted in the lives of 1.4 billion Indians, is straining to be seen

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife

More than nationalism or spectacle, Dhurandhar signals India's turn to institutional storytelling - where intelligence, bureaucracy and soft power shape cinema's politics

In comparison, last year, despite major Diwali releases in November, the cumulative gross box office of the films released in the first 11 months of the year stood at Rs 9,862 crore