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Cannes Film Festival 2018: Nandita Das’ Biopic Manto Examines Iconclast Writer Saadat Hasan Manto

Presented in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section, Nandita Das' biopic, Manto, follows the most tumultuous years in the…

6 years ago
  • Interviews

Lipstick Under My Burkha: Alankrita Shrivastava’s Celebration of Female Desire Survives a Ban, Opens in India

For the past decade, the independent film scene in India has been thriving—in particular, movies that pick at the ancient…

7 years ago
  • Book Reviews

Book Review: Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation Examines Cinema in Everyday Life

A farmer—his name is Logandurai—sings in a grape orchard in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India, far away from…

8 years ago
  • Directing

People Will Get It: What the Creators of The Fob and I Learned by Making a Cultural Comedy

Meenakshi Ramamurthy is the creator and Noopur Sinha is the producer of The Fob and I, a web series about…

8 years ago