Parallel Cinema

Bhuvan Shome: How Mrinal Sen's National Award-winning film ushered in a seismic shift in the Indian film industry

Bhuvan Shome gave rise to what we now popularly call the Parallel Cinema movement, a movement that would leave an indelible footprint onto the landscape of Indian cinema, thereby changing the latter forever.

Bimal Roy's 109th anniversary: A look at director's National Award-winning films Sujata, Bandini, Do Bigha Zameen

Filmmaker Bimal Roy's contribution to Indian cinema marks him as one of the leading figures in the parallel film movement in the industry

Veteran Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen cremated in Kolkata; last rites ceremony attended by Nandita Das, Anjan Dutt

Mrinal Sen has directed films like Ek Din Achanak, Padatik, Baishey Shravana and Mrigayaa.

Veteran filmmaker Mrinal Sen passes away aged 95; 'Loss to the world of cinema,' tweets President Ram Nath Kovind

Mrinal Sen has worked on films like Ek Din Achanak, Padatik, Baishey Shravana and Mrigayaa.

Raveena Tandon, on going from 'Mast Mast' girl to Maatr, and motherhood: Life has come full circle

Raveena Tandon plays a vengeful mother with nothing to lose, in her upcoming film Maatr

Om Puri deserved not just better directors and writers, he deserved a better audience

Om Puri was the thinking director’s dream

Farooq Shaikh: The everyman everyone forgot

Through his performances Farooq Shaikh conveyed the story of an average man and his death makes the everyman everyone seemed to have forgotten truly memorable.