Filmmaking

Nazarband filmmaker Suman Mukhopadhyay: 'No art can be created if the artist isn’t politically aware'

Suman Mukhopadhyay — actor, filmmaker, playwright, and theatre director — talks about his film Nazarband's premiere at the recently concluded Busan Film Festival; Kolkata as a character in the story; and if all art is political.

45 years later, how Indira Gandhi's 1975 Emergency appears through the lens of the Films Division of India 

When the Emergency was declared on 25 June 1975, the Films Division's resources were marshalled to defend the clampdown and sing the praises of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her Twenty Point Programme.

Family, the 'made at home' short film, is not only a social distancing PSA, but also a lesson in 'stay at home' filmmaking

Family, the made-at-home short film, draws from a time-tested fundamental technique: Actors or performers who are collectively part of a scene do not physically need to be present in the actual filmed space.

Homi Adajania on Angrezi Medium, seeking adventures: Fear of unknown allows me to listen to my instincts more intently

Homi Adajania on why directing Angrezi Medium was as much a fulfilling adventure for him as scuba diving in Lakshadweep or revisiting childhood with his kids.

Akshay Indikar dreams in Marathi: 'I believe I can reach out to audiences with films made in my mother tongue'

Akshay Indikar, who hails from Solapur and belongs to the Gondhali nomadic tribe, doesn't consider Marathi as being a stepping stone to Hindi or English. He believes he can reach out to people in this language.

Aamir Khan on filmmaking plans: Holding back the director inside me as I don't want to stop acting

Aamir Khan says filmmaking does excite him, but currently he wants to focus on acting

From behind the camera to the backseat

The director is fast becoming insignificant in big-budget commercial Bollywood, in the era of PR-driven box-office kill and aggressive hardsell of superstars

M Night Shyamalan's writing may still be his calling card, despite multiple critical flops

For someone who was unable to get funding after making nearly 1 billion USD at the box office, it was M Night Shyamalan’s marquee value that got Bruce Willis to reprise his character in Split

The Oxford English Dictionary adds over 100 film-related words, including like Spielbergian, Kubrickian

The Oxford English Dictionary has added over 100 words and phrases that are used in the language of cinema: 'cinematography to criticism, film scripts to film-makers'

Ashim Ahluwalia on his short film Palace of Horrors, and what makes for truly frightening cinema

In an interview with Firstpost, director Ashim Ahluwalia talks of all things horror, the challenges posed by the short film format and his latest — Palace of Horrors, from The Field Guide to Evil anthology