Lucknow: Commercialisation has made parallel cinema lose its charm. This was the crux of deliberations by experts during a thought-provoking discussion on ‘Pillars of Parallel Cinema', at The Metaphor ...

Anil Kapoor is all set to unleash his action avatar in Subedaar this week. But it's a little known fact that when he entered the film industry, all he wanted was to be a part of was films from ...

While making her niche as a serious actress in the clutter of glamorous stars in 1970s, Shabana Azmi's debut coincided with the birth of parallel cinema in India. NEW DELHI: While making her niche as ...

If one goes through veteran actor Pankaj Kapur’s recent filmography, one might conclude that he has become quite selective. Last year he had a minor role in the ZEE5 thriller Lost and gave an ...

Working on two to three movie projects despite going to the hospital three times a week to undergo dialysis at the age of 90 years — such was the dedication of veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal. Benegal ...

Shanmugam Studio/Wikimedia Images Director Adoor Gopalakrishnan will introduce four of his films at the Logan Center for the Arts. Considering how rarely Indian art cinema is exhibited in Chicago, the ...

Shyam Benegal is known as a pioneer of Indian parallel cinema. For those born in the late 70s and 80s, and who grew into adulthood in the 90s, the evolution of Indian television and parallel cinema is ...

Indian cinema reached modernity in the train scene in Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (1955), when two children, Apu and Durga, lost in a field, hear distant rumbling and see, for the first time, a ...

In my tribute to Vasantha Obeysekere two weeks ago, I noted that Sri Lanka was never really open to the kind of parallel cinema that invaded India. There are reasons for this, prime among them being ...

Utsav Gonwar, who shot his maiden film under dire circumstances, is happy that he never compromised on the script. “We were down to our last penny while making Photo, but I had freedom as funding your ...