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Big countries, little people: Indian diaspora as seen in Bollywood films

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

Frames per Second: Meet Uttam Kumar, the 'Nayak' of Bengal cinema

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

Stealing bread: How Deewaar reimagined an episode from Les Miserables

Not surprisingly, rewatching Deewaar now is still an enriching experience

The urge to throw a stone

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

Frames per second: Exploding heads in the time of Oppenheimer

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

Total Recall: Two Indias for midnight's children

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

Frames per Second: The Big Bad Bollywood Wedding

Fans obsess over celebrity weddings such as Ranbir-Alia. But the big fat Indian wedding is inalienable from Bollywood

Frames per Second: Waiting for the Barbarians

Re-watching Newton is a must during the election season to remind ourselves of the essentially performative nature of Indian democracy

Frames per Second: In custody, then and now

Anand Patwardhan's film Prisoner of Conscience, on political prisoners in India during the Emergency, has some deep resonances for our times

Frames per Second: Banality of Law

Chaitanya Tamhane's Court has eerie echoes for our contemporary times

Frames per Second: Music for tragedy

The stunning narrative and music of Haqeeqat tried to spin India's defeat in the 1962 China war as a tale of sacrifice

Frames per Second: The long walk home

The precarious existence of millions of people in the unorganised sector was thrown into sharp relief by the lockdown

Frames per Second: So easy to kill a man

As uneasy calm settles on Delhi, there is little hope for sprouting love like between Mr and Mrs Iyer

Frames per Second: Chilli flakes and resistance

Like in the movie Mirch Masala, a status quo has been established by the women of Shaheen Bagh, which has become synonymous with countrywide protests against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act

Frames per Second: Remember Derozio, enfant terrible of Bengali Renaissance

An almost forgotten Bengali film casts light on the current turmoil on campuses

Frames per second: The Spectre of the camps

Research has shown most Germans were well aware of what was going on at the detention centres

Blood and water: The strange link between CAA and a 1958 Bollywood classic

The contentious CAA and protests against it find echoes in Yahudi

Frames per Second: Defending democracy

Woodward and Bernstein had described Watergate as an attack on American democracy. It seems too close home now

Frames per Second: Becoming Inspector Mike Lobo in a broken system

Govind Nihalani's 'Ardh Satya' takes an uncompromising look at how the system breaks down a police officer

Frames per second: Chowkidars and lynch mobs

A nearly forgotten Raj Kapoor film shows us what a society can become when it surrenders to vigilante justice