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Absences, Film History and Neighbourhood Cinemas of Calcutta
Desire and Desiderium: Intergenerational Female Sexuality in Girls Will Be Girls
Locationality and Autoethnography in the Cinema of Northeastern India
Beyond the Mustard Fields: The New Dissident Visuality of Punjab and Punjabiyat on Screen
Affective Spaces and a Reflective Marathi Cinema: Sthalpuran and Atmapamphlet
Shyam Benegal: Master of the 'New Wave'
Nargis: A Daughter of India before Mother India?
Making a Universe: Notes on Bollywood’s Franchise Model
The Mithun Phenomenon in Indian Cinema: Perspectives from Films, Politics and Beyond
The Comic Heroes of Kader Khan’s World
Homelands in Crisis: Reviews from the MAMI 2024 South Asian Selection
The Curious Case of the Missing Hindi Film Comedian
It Takes a Village To Make a Film: In Conversation with Rima Das
A Small Man with Tall Strides
Swastika Mukherjee: An Actor on Her Own Terms
Vasan Bala’s Courageous Filmmaking in Jigra
Suchitra Sen: The Quintessential Star
Saaed Mirza: The Filmmaker Poet
Shabana Azmi: A Will to Act
Championing Female Voices in Malayalam Cinema
Mapping Spirits and Folklore in the Maddock Supernatural Universe
A Crack in Contraband History: The Mysterious Death of Divya Bharti
Kill: Repackaging Onscreen Revenge
The Lore of Cinematic Hill Stations
Kishore Kumar: An Unconstrained Voice Still Persuading Us to Rejoice
Utpal Dutta's Political Cinema: A Study of Select Works
Emerging from the Shadows: Remembering Abrar Alvi
Kalki 2898 AD and Science Fiction in Indian Cinema
The Importance of Being Naseeruddin Shah
Down to Earth: Ecological Documentaries at MIFF 2024
The Sport of Elections on the Indian Screen
Panchayat 3: An-esthetics of Purity and Coloured Perceptions
Joymoti Never Left: Mehdi Jahan on the Cinema of Jyotiprasad Agarwala
Chaalchitra Ekhon: A Kaleidoscope of Calcutta Memories
Manthan: A Churning of State Drives and Personal Aspirations
Heeramandi: A Heady Tale of Tragedy
Amar Singh Chamkila: The Musical Maverick
Monkey Man: Packing a Punch Beyond the Average Action Film
Shefali Shah: An Indian OTT Powerhouse
Remembering Ustad Rashid Khan and Other Classical Musicians in Cinema
Sreemoyee Singh on And, Towards Happy Alleys
Diljit Dosanjh: The Urban Pendu in a Global Village
Remembering Arundhati Devi on Her Birth Centenary
“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”: Rhea Kapoor’s Messy, Unapologetic Heroines
The Middle Cinema of Sai Paranjype
Extract from the forthcoming Cinema aur Sansar: Kumar Shahani se Udayan Vajpeyi ka Samvaad
The Cinema of Whispers
(Un)concealing the Comedy: The Cinematic Aesthetics of Veiling in Laapataa Ladies
An Intuitive Cinéaste: Konkana Sen Sharma’s Steadfast Reign as Actor-Filmmaker
The Moral Right to Violent Vigilantism in Rohit Shetty’s Copverse
Rituals of Revelations: The Bollywood Celebrity Talk Show
Towards and Away from Home: Registers of Contemporary Cinema from Darbhanga
Killer Soup of Styles, Modes and Genres, Intoxicated by Magic
Guilt, Intrigue and Murder: Sriram Raghavan’s Merry Christmas
Shah Rukh Khan: 2023’s Biggest Superstar
Being Atrangi: Ranveer Singh, the Unconventional Star-Celebrity
Mediating Transnational Worlds with Mira Nair
Hauntings of the Past and Present in the Northeast
Spies and the Stars: Tracing Political Positionings in the YRF Spyverse
Film Criticism in the New Digital Landscape
There’s No Formula for a Successful Film
Enlightening the Nation with the Documentary
Finding Traces of One’s Self: Meena Kumari’s Poetry and Biopic
Cinema Parables from Bengal and Beyond in Tarun Majumdar's Writing
Make it Large: A (Dialectical) Leap Back into Action
Arun Khopkar on Prak-Cinema
How Stage can Serve the Screen
Jawan and the ‘Doubling’ of Shah Rukh Khan
Cigarettes, Scarves and Morality: Dev Anand’s Early Crime Films
Waheeda Rahman: A Screen of Her Own
Nayanthara’s Journey from South Indian Stardom to Pan-Indian Triumph
Scam 2003 - The Telgi Story: A One-Man Show
The Kotha and the Tawaif in Popular Hindi Cinema
Launda Performers and their Acts of ‘Subversion’
Dance, Defiance and Marginality in Launda Naach
The Dancing Don and Dance Forms of West Corrupt Our Films
Searching for the Fairy-Tale Ending in Made In Heaven: Season 2
Vijay Varma’s Likeable Villains, Toxic Masculinity and OTT Stardom
Kathal and Dahaad: The Disappearance and Reclamation of Invisible Women
Seeking Through the Haze: Introspection and Envelopment in Kohrra
The Sufi Sources of Bollywood Lyrics
The 1950s ‘Socials’: A Reading of the Vagabond as a Social Poet
Main Pal Do Pal ka Shayar Hoon: Poets in Hindi Cinema
Poetic Registers of Indian Cinema: Ruminations on the Mid-20th Century Urdu Public Sphere
Mysterious Cadavers and Marshy Mishaps in Purusha Pretham
Anubhav Sinha’s Cinema of Instruction
Bhojpuri Cinema: Identifying the Region in Inalienable Entitlements
The Bengali Cinema
Extracts from Always Being Born (2004) by Mrinal Sen Bondhu: My Father, My Friend (2023) by Kunal Sen
Mrinal Sen: Towards Another Moment of Truth
Jubilee: Retrofitting the Crisis of Bombay Cinema
The ‘National’ Scientist: Rocket Boys, Homi Bhabha, and the Politics of Representation
The Historical Genre in Indian Cinema: Past Bypassed
Bearing Witness: Rape, Female Resistance, Male Authority and the Problems of Gender
A Khan in Ray Bans: Pathaan and the Rise of the Post-Islamicate Bollywood Film
Marattam: Rasa and Imagined Realities
A Polysemic Image: Anglo-Indian Actresses in Early Bombay Cinema
Nepalis as the Subservient Other in Hindi Cinema
Beyond the Cross of Stardom: Dilip Kumar in the 1960s
Temporality, Travel and Gender Politics in Satyajit Ray's 1960s Films
The Riddle of Parallel Cinema: The Film Finance Corporation (FFC) as a Compromise Formation
A 'State' of Anxiety: Nehru's Spectral Presence in 1960s War Films
Our Festivals, Their Festivals: KIFF and other International Film Festivals in India
In Conversation with the People’s Film Collective
CC Shorts: Reviews from the 2023 Kolkata People’s Film Festival
Kantara and the Recasting of Caste
Lesbian Begums and Maja Ma Mothers: An Older Madhuri Dixit in Newer Media Ecologies
Erasure and Appropriation of the Ageing Body: Older women and Desire in Hindi Cinema
Not so vampiric: Aging, Masculinity, and Stardom in Bombay
The Real Film Crisis
Cinematic Delhi: Multiple Histories of the Capital in Hindi Films
Decrypting Dilli
Monumental City: Cartographies of Working-Class Delhi
The Eye, “I” and a City in Flux: Deadpan Aesthetics in Maine Dilli Nahin Dekha
Dravida Pride or Hindutva Nationalism: The Problematic Rhetoric of Ponniyin Selvan: I
On Prime Time: In Conversation with Vinay Shukla
Natchathiram Nagargiradhu and Rene: A Kintsugi by Pa. Ranjith
Bengal’s queen of Screen tragedy
The Afterimage of a Star: Puneeth Rajkumar and Fan Cultures of Memorialization
Telugu Cinema’s Legacy Issues
Star of the Stream: Sobhita Dhulipala and the New Star-Texts of OTT India
Tamil Cinema: Yesterday and Today
A Song to Carry in Our Hearts: Tarun Majumdar’s ‘Bengali’ Romanticism
Fatma Begum: Another History of Indian Cinema
A “generational shift” in Malayalam Cinema: The Films of Aashiq Abu
The Politics of Being Jahnu Barua
“Much of Filmdom’s glory belongs to Shantaram”
Chidananda Das Gupta's Early Years: An Exercise in Speculation
Chidananda Das Gupta: Close-Ups and Long Shots
Chidananda Das Gupta: Critic and Friend
For the Cause of Cinema: Chidananda Das Gupta
Reflections on the Film Festival
Meena Kumari: The Last Great Tragedienne
The Ends of Tragedy
Supriya Devi: The 'Cloud-Capped' Bengali Female Star
Star Profile: Dilip Kumar as King of Tragedy
Scriptwriting Resistance and Reform: The Words of K. A. Abbas
A Daughter’s Tribute
The Men Who Build the Film Story
The Importance of the Screenplay
The Industry Tomorrow
Everyday Struggles and Laughs: Comedy in 1950s-1970s Bengali Cinema
The Great Indian Censor Show: Stand-Up Comedy in
An All-Rounder Called Om Prakash
“Too much Slapstick”
Relangi Venkatramiah
The Comedienne as Hindi Film Star: Sridevi’s Transgressive Comic Persona
Body as the Site of Humour: A Case for the Fat Comedienne in Hindi Cinema
Citizen Polishetty: Comedy Heroes and Realpolitik in Telugu Cinema
Star Profiles of Comedians of the 1950s
Ritwick Chakraborty and the Men Who Arrived
All That Breathes: A Lens on Collapse Beyond Fatalism
The Journey of Writing with Fire: In Conversation with Rintu Thomas
Screening the Adivasi
We Need to Talk about Alia Bhatt: Bollywood and the Reinvention of Girl Power
A Stare, a Smirk, and the Meaning of the Affective Close-Ups
Minnal Murali: Provincializing Superhero Films
Flashback / Fast Forward: On Recent Film Policy
Lata Mangeshkar, Farewell
In conversation with Kabir Khan
Women at Work: The (In)Visibility of Female Labour Onscreen
The Offbeat Cinema
The Pioneers of Indian Cinema
‘South Indian Aesthetics’ in Contemporary Bollywood Cinema
Masculinity and War Films in Bombay Cinema
Celluloid Histories and Futures: Art Cinema in India
The Dream Merchants
The Splendid Indeterminacy of Shoojit Sircar’s Mellow Dramas
From Remote Console to Media Libraries: Trajectories of the Literary in Platform Capitalism
Detective Leads the Pack: Tracing the trend of investigative thrillers
Unveiling the House of Secrets: Burari Deaths
Reading Thalaivii: Cine-politics and the Biopic in South India
Indian Documentary circuits in the pandemic era
“Every filmmaker is present in their film”: Shilpi Gulati interviewed by Vaskar Mech
Documentary Films and Development
Film and Social Development: A Historical Overview of the Hindi Cinema
“Re”thinking masculinity: The evolution of the Bollywood hero
From Mother India to femme fatale: The evolution of the rural woman in
The Penumbral OTT Hero
Tur(banned) Masculinities: Terrorists, Sikhs, and trauma in Indian cinema
More than meets the eye: The thrillers of the 60s
Exhibit 1& 2: Bunnu K. Endo Maye and the psychological thrills of total capitalism
The Mythology-Crime Thriller Connect
Gangland Bombay
India Darkly: Dirty Realism and Film Noir in Neoliberal India
Dilip Kumar: The ‘Love Legend’ of the Fifties
Women and Grief in Hindi Cinema
The Twenty-Year Evolution of the ‘Woman’s Film’ in Commercial Hindi Cinema
The Surprising Feminism of the Female Don in Hindi Cinema
The New Edge of Indian Cinema: An Analysis of the Treatment of Gender, Sexuality, and Matrimony in the New Indian Cinema in English
The Disciple: A Journey of Self-Discovery
Gaata Rahe Mera Dil
Aspects of Production and Consumption in the Popular Hindi Film Song Industry
Playback Singer Rafi
Song and the Indian Film
The Mother and the Daughter in a Son’s Story: The Apu Trilogy and Women’s Modernity
In search of a gestalt in Ray's cinema
‘How Do I Look?’: Looking at what women want in Satyajit Ray’s films
Adventures of Goopy and Bagha: A Critical Rendering of a Fairy-Tale
The Poetic Reality of Satyajit Ray
Sovereign Subject: Ray’s Apu
'Stree' on the Streets: Constructing female experience of the city in Marathi films Ajji (2017) and Nude (2018)
Kung Fu Localised: Mobility and identity in Assamese film Local Kung Fu (2013)
Gujarati Cinema: Yesterday and Today by Hasmukh Baradi
What is Tamil about Tamil Cinema?
The ‘Nation’ in Indian Cinema
The Celebrity as Political Influencer in Anti-Intellectual Times
On the Offensive: OTT Platforms and Policial Censorship
The cinematic beauty of "Jinhe naaz hai Hind par" from Guru Dutt's ‘Pyaasa’
Notes on Sighting/Citing/ Siting Indian Women in Hindi Cinema of the 1950s and 60s
Film and Ruins of History
The White Tiger
Memory as Residue: Belonging and Estrangement in Recent Cinema
Cinematic evocations: heroism in the New India
Chronicles of Courage and Sadness
India’s Year at the Oscars? A look into Lijo Jose Pellissery’s Jallikattu
Talking ‘lady-oriented’ films with Alankrita Shrivastava
Bollywood Spectaculars
The Enigmatic Tormentor
Of Havelis, Nagins and Zombies: The Passage of Allegorical Horror in
Of Ghouls and Bulbbuls: The Rise of the Horror Genre on Netflix India
Pregnant subjectivity, monstrous return and scrambled temporalities in Lapachhapi
Six Decades and Counting: Soumitra Chatterjee a Rare Gem
Kaala Jaadu, Dayan and the Bengalin: Reading cultural stereotypes as feminist tropes
‘Manikarnika’ or ‘Thalaivi’: Insights into the star text of Kangana Ranaut
Bollywood Backlash
Film Review : C U Soon
In Conversation with Ronny Sen: Cat Sticks and the Landscape of Contemporary Image-Making
Between a Popular Star and a Keeper of Everyday Conscience
The Vibrant Streets of Calcutta: A Study of Select Popular Songs from 1970s Bengali Cinema
Sunanda: Bengal’s First Woman Producer
Reminiscing the 70s Calcutta - In Conversation with Soumitra Chatterjee
Transforming Spaces: Gem Cinema (Kolkata) as a site of artistic collaborations
The Enigma of an Arrival
Tete-a-Tete with Sadhona Bose
Saroj Khan: The Masterji Choreographer as Moving Archive of Bombay Cinema’s Gestural Histories
Cinema and the Traumatic Histories of the Contemporary
The Wandering Madman: The Allegorical Kashmiri Figure in Indian Cinema
The Midlife Reinventions of Female Stars of Popular Hindi Cinema
Traditional Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema
“Stop trying to be a desperate American”: Priyanka Chopra and the travails of a ‘transnational’ Bollywood female star
Sarees, Scandals and Starlets: Looking for the Indian ‘Flapper’ Girl
Girl Abroad: The Private and the Public in Jab We Met…
CC Women in Cinema | Rima Das: "I think from childhood many of us discouraged from dreaming big or dreaming."
“Only the wicked girls are interesting…”- The “Homewreckers” of Bombay Cinema
Har Kisse Ke Hisse: Kaamyaab
No Hope for a Villain!
Tragedy of a Comic
"I have tasted the bitter-sweet cup of film life from every angle, and, believe me, every sip varies in taste" - Mazhar Khan
DAVID: Lovable Wise Gnome of Filmdom
The Informality at the Heart of Bollywood
The ‘Kerala Model’ against Fear and Contagion
Celebrity Death in the Time of Covid-19
CC Women in Cinema | Amruta Subhash
Bobby: The Arithmetic of Young Love!
The Youthfulness of Tamil Cinema and the Limits of Imitation
Ayushmann Khurrana and the Case of Evolving Masculinities on Screen
To put the matter baldly: Masculine anxieties in recent Hindi cinema
Vernacular masculinity and politics of space in contemporary Bollywood cinema
Bhojpuri Consolidations in the Hindi Territory: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and Competing Masculinities in North India
Queer Bollywood and Bollywood Queers: Normalization and Normativity in Hindi Film
Millennial Masculinity: The ‘Man-Child’ in 2010s Hindi Cinema
Have Our Film Heroes Grown Too Old?
Constructing-Contesting Masculinities: Trends in South Asian Cinema
“We accept that cinema will shed its skin and acquire new shapes and forms.”
The Sarkari ‘information film’ and its Discontents
Representations of violence in the first-person documentary: Archival footage and documentary consciousness
Indian (Documentary) Film at the Oscars
The Stars of Bombay Talkies and a Tryst with German Expressionism
Cinema in India: 2010-2020
Film Review | Chhapaak
Bollywood and the Politics of Boycott
HEROINE: Shaukat Kaifi (1926-2019)
CC Women in Cinema | A Woman Less Ordinary
"Real Life Rang De Basanti": Student Protests in Film
Lata Mangeshkar: The Singer and the Voice
IFFI in a Jiffy
CC Women in Cinema | Clare Mendonca
The Politics of 'Panipat: The Great Betrayal'
Of affection and consumption: The New Celebrity Culture
An evening on Mars, love on the moon: 1960s science fiction films from Bombay
From 1 to 21 in over two decades: Mapping the mandate of the Mumbai Film Festival
Muse, Star, Celebrity: Demystifying the Magic of Madhuri Dixit
Reclaiming the (Extra)ordinary: The Late Career of Shah Rukh Khan
CC Women in Cinema |Kalpana Lajmi – Being a Woman behind the Camera
Amitabh Bachchan: “I hate the label ‘superstar’”
Gender Roles: Bollywood Responds to Me Too
Shaitani Cinema
The Sky is Pink: Studying Kinships in Trial
“There is no cinema that is apolitical”: An interview with Shonali Bose
CC Women in Cinema: In Conversation with Nandita Das
From Book to Netflix: An Interview with Varun Grover
Working Intermedia: An Interview with Nitya Mehra
Theorising Web Series: Form, Aesthetics and Cultural Logics
Morality, Arts and Aesthetics
Mrinal Sen: The chronicler, the humanist
The Many Misogynies of Malayalam Cinema
A Good Woman, A Very Good Woman—Tamil Cinema’s Women
Devotion and Horror in a Women’s Genre: Exploring Subalternity in Cinema
Vigilantism and the Pleasures of Masquerade: The Female Spectator of Vijayasanthi Films
Review of Article 15
Guru Dutt: My Childhood Memories
Thirst for Change
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: A Comparative Analysis of Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa and Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar
Guru Dutt, the Prankster
Terrains of Bollywood Dance: (Neoliberal) Capitalism and the Transformation of Cultural Economies
Making a woman from a Tawaif: Courtesans as heroes in Hindi Cinema
Item Number/Item Girl
Indian courtesans: from reality to the silver screen and back again
National identity and the realist aesthetic: Indian cinema of the fifties
Reconfiguring India: Narrating the Nation through Great Men Biopics
Allegory, Nationalism and Cultural Change in Indian Cinema: Sant Tukaram
Communalism, Secularism and Indian Historical Films (1940-46)
Performing Terror, Mediating Religion: Indian Cinema and the Politics of National Belonging
Between the Godfather and the Mafia: Situating Right-Wing Interventions in the Bombay Film Industry (1992–2002)
Terrorism, Conspiracy, and Surveillance in Bombay’s Urban Cinema
Roja in 'Law and Order' State
What Price this Stardom?
Cinematic Images of Indian Woman
Faces that Flash a Shining Moment
Star Profiles
When We Saw the Lesbian
Shifting spaces, frozen frames: trajectories of queer politics in contemporary India
From Co-star to Deity: Popular Representations of Jayalalitha Jayaram
Fatma Begum in conversation with Ms. Kitty
Dialogue
The Metamorphosis of Bhuvan Shome
Ami Sotti Bolchhi! Retelling of Bangaliana in Recent Sujoy Ghosh and Shoojit Sircar Films
Raajneeti, Politicians and CEOs
Cinema, Video and Television
The City in Cinema, and Cinemas in the City: South City Mall and Locations of Display
Popular Shyam: Idol of the Indian Masses
Hiralal: The King of Tragedies
How much is too much?: Femininity at the Workplace in Hindi Cinema
“It’s good to be a Star”
Private Places and Public Spaces: The Precarious Pleasures of Gender Discourse in Raja Hindustani
The Icchadhari Nagin in Hindi Cinema and the Politics of its Corporeality on Screen
‘Moving beyond Themselves’: Women in Hindustani Parsi Theatre and Early Hindi Films
Manto: Stories of/for Our Time
The Real Film Crisis
Queering Bollywood: Alternative Sexualities in Popular Indian Cinema
Bimal Roy
Gold: Akshay Kumar as Bollywood’s New Hero
New Voices in Songs: Do Women in Hindi Films have Greater Agency?
The Colour of Aesthetics
The Item Number: Cinesexuality in Bollywood and Social Life
On Kaala and Dalit Cinema
Representation of the Dalit identity in Indian cinema
From Caste to Class: Recovering North Kerala in
The Missing Periyar and the Curious Tamil Nationalism of Kabali
Temporary Bans and Bad Laws: The Aarakshan Ban and the Logics of Censorship in Contemporary India
Mother India’s Son
“Citizen Kane shocked the hell out of me” – An interview with Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Active Viewing: An ethnography of the Indian film audience
Stop This Slander!
Soundbaazi: Space, Place, Meaning in the Hindi Film Soundtrack
Inhabiting Passionate Spaces: Reframing Intimacy in 50’s Bengali ‘Romantic Films’
"Gunga Din" Another Scandalously Anti-Indian Picture!
The Art of Mrinal Sen
Satyajit Ray and the Film Society Movement in India
The Ray Feeling
Seeing Through the Sound: Certain Tendencies of the Soundtrack in Satyajit Ray’s Films in the 1970s
“Teen Kanya”: First Fruit of Mellow Phase
Interview with Satyajit Ray
“You can’t expect me to make a masterpiece every time”
The New Marathi Film
The Commercial Cinema: Opium for the Masses
The Scientist and His Double in Indian Science Fiction Cinema
Who's Afraid of Historical Films?
Remembering Ritwik
The Mirror Cracked
On Whose Behalf? Ethics in Indian Social Documentary Film and Practice
Talking to Grierson
The Shakespeare Wallahs: Interview with the Merchant Ivory team
Films and the State: An Analysis of their Relation and Function
The meteoric rise of Rajesh Khanna
The Art of Louis Malle: an interview by Dileep Padgaonkar
A Brush with Cinema: A Look at the Relationship between Painters and Cinema
Temple of Womb
Imperial Colours
The Problem of Censorship
Interview with B. R. Ambedkar
Who Killed Art Cinema?
Interview with Dilip Kumar
Bollywood Comes to Nigeria
Backpacking Sounds: Sneha Khanwalkar and the “New” Soundtrack of Bombay Cinema
Begums, Buddies, and Bandits: Imaging Queer Histories and Imagining Queer Futures in Dedh Ishqiya
Mahatma Gandhi becomes a film star
Cine-Patriotism
Interview with Madhubala
First Day, First Show
The Man Who Was Seen Too Much: Amitabh Bachchan on Film Posters
Seeking Sunny Leone: A Journey Through the Digital Erotic
Cinema of the Dispossessed
Communalists, Keep Out!

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