Page 6 - Indian Cinema

Film submissions at TIFF were higher than pre-Covid numbers: Cameron Bailey

'People still want to experience movies; they want to discover new films', said Bailey

Nayattu, Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar: Cinema about running, and hiding as well

Two diametrically opposite movies of 2021 show us the inner turmoil of police personnel during testing times

Kolkata: What makes the City of Joy a favourite shooting destination

The City of Joy is currently busy hosting back-to-back shooting schedules of films with actors from different parts of the nation.

Indian movies 'Paka', 'Dug Dug' to debut at Toronto International Film Fest

Debutante filmmaker Nithin Lukose's feature film "Paka" and Ritwik Pareek's "Dug Dug" are the 2 Indian films to have been selected for the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival.

From China to Australia, hope floats for the global box office amid Covid

There is a strong line-up of big-ticket films awaiting release in the second half of 2021

The multiplex mess: Road to recovery for pandemic-battered cinema is long

The pandemic and OTT have changed the cinema ecosystem. Now, as states start allowing movie halls to reopen, the road to recovery is in sight. But it is likely to be long and hard

Hard knocks for soft power

The state is tightening its control over what we read, watch, hear or laugh at, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar. Why not facilitate our soft power instead of clamping down on its strengths?

Remembering Dilip Kumar, the legendary actor, who has bowed out at 98

Dilip Kumar was Indian cinema's first and most influential Khan - an extraordinary force that inspired generations of actors

The lure of the ineffable: Remembering poet, filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta

His films hinge on people who seek to break free from the tyranny of expectation. Defiantly, they go "nowhere"

Big screen battles

Book review of Bollywood Does Battle: The War Movie and the Indian Popular Imagination

Best of BS Opinion: DHFL resolution, the collapse of Indian cinema & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday

The collapse of Indian cinema

More than two-third of Indian cinema's revenues were wiped out last year

He didn't believe in incidental music: Shyam Benegal on Vanraj Bhatia

In a conversation with Ritwik Sharma, Benegal recalls their partnership and what made Bhatia a very special music director

The legacy of Phalke

Trained in art at Bombay's J J School of Art, and Baroda's Maharaja Sayajirao University, he drew on a vast treasure of mythological lore

Covid-ravaged Indian cinema's plot falters, will take years to pick up

The pandemic has devastated the film business. It will take years to pick up the pieces. Part 1 of a two-part series

Big screen goes blank: Five movies delayed as Covid-19 lockdown curbs grow

Maharashtra has localised lockdowns and night curfew in place; and restrictions are increasing in states such as Punjab, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi as the daily caseload increases

Rising Covid-19 cases likely to delay biz recovery of PVR, Inox Leisure

Permission to operate at full capacity, healthy content pipeline fuel optimism

Montage of a Bollywood legend

Book review of A Patchwork Quilt: A Collage of My Creative Life

PVR in talks with producers to release films in theatres as virus eases

The country's biggest cinema operator, which runs about 835 screens across 71 cities, is currently operating most theaters at half capacity due to Covid-related restrictions

Unfair to judge Guru Dutt by today's standards, says Yasser Usman

Yasser Usman, author of Guru Dutt: An Unfinished Story, speaks to Chintan Girish Modi on Guru Dutt's life