Hindi Cinema

What ails Hindi cinema: It’s disconnected, disillusioned and disingenuous

The movies that the Hindi film industry has produced lack both skill and substance, especially in comparison to south Indian films. This is largely due to the self-created bubble of the Hindi film industry which keeps it away from the stark reality

Watch: Kili Paul lip-sync to Raj Kapoor's iconic song

The content creator shared a Reel on Instagram earlier this week where he lip-synced to veteran Bollywood actor Raj Kapoor’s iconic song Kisi Ki Muskurahaton Pe Ho Nisar

Looking beyond the rose-tinted glasses: Has all the romance in Hindi cinema gone or evolved?

Cinema for change is significant, and love stories that explore the real side of it are gladly welcomed, but is it greedy to want the best of both worlds? Is it asking too much, if I desire over-the-top romances, and rooted love stories as well?

The Kashmir Files, impossibility of a Pandit homecoming in near future, and keeping hope alive

Will the film push the wheels of justice for the beleaguered community? Only time will tell but one thing is clear — the suppressed truth about the perpetrators and collaborators of crimes against Kashmiri Pandits is distinctly out in public now

Devil's Advocate | Hindi cinema's depiction of the writer is ludicrous — but that's how authors want to see themselves on screen

The portrayal of the writer in both Gehraiyaan and Bestseller are simultaneously hilarious and the fantasy land most authors are dying to get to. Either way, the joke is on them.

Bollywood of the Wild Wild West days was superb, but I wouldn't want to go back there: Anupama Chopra

Anupama Chopra's new book A Place In My Heart is a capsule of her evolution along with the film industry she reports on — from a cub reporter in the Bollywood of the "Wild Wild West" days to "marrying into the mob," all the while building three major film organisations.

Pandit Birju Maharaj's filmy detours were no short of magical; Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Kamal Haasan, Alia Bhatt pay tributes

“I have two idols. You can call them guiding light of my career. Lata Mangeshkar is in hospital. Pandit Birju Maharaj is gone. I can't believe it," says Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who has collaborated with the Kathak legend for Devdas and Bajirao Mastani.

Bullets Over Bombay book review: Uday Bhatia's Satya rewind is a capsule of the '90s

Bullets Over Bombay is quite an immersive treatise on Satya because it does not just detail the making of the movie, but also gives a sense of what the real world was like back then, in the not-so-nice '90s.

Mall Content: Hindi cinema's manufactured depiction of Shimla is hopelessly limited to postcards and land of refuge

The average Indian filmmaker’s chauvinistic view of Shimla depicts it as a place so un-Indian, it can only be mined through the elitism of the tourist rather than the consciousness of the resident.

OTT regulation to Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill presents multiple challenges for new I&B Minister Anurag Thakur

Anurag Thakur has taken charge of the Information & Broadcasting Ministry at a turbulent time when Indian cinema is grappling with revival of a pandemic-struck exhibition sector, streaming platforms regulation, and proposed amendments to the act that governs censorship, film certification, and piracy.