Film history
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How Satyajit Ray achieved historical accuracy in his first Hindi film ‘Shatranj ke Khilari’
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Why the merger of the National Film Archives and Films Division is an assault on the Constitution
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How the Kamat Foto Flash agency became as iconic as the movies it was hired to snap
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What archival footage from pre-Liberation Goa tells us about Portuguese propaganda
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Watch: The Lumiere brothers’ ‘The Arrival of a Train’ – restored and colourised
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It’s a fact: A well-made historical film is better than one that gets a few things wrong
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Georges Melies pushed the boundaries of cinema with his visual effects and imagination
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Meet the Alauddin Khilji who asked, ‘I have 1,600 wives. Why Padmavati?’
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‘I will fight till the end’: Filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi’s lonely battle against health and neglect
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National archive gets a gift of 1,000 rare photos of Marathi films
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What happened to the Pakistani submarine that inspired the movie ‘The Ghazi Attack’?
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The ‘Prabhat touch’: How the legendary studio became a respectable workplace for actresses
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Udham Singh: Motor mechanic, movie actor – and freedom fighter
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The untold story of ‘Badnam Basti’, possibly India’s first gay movie
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Sabu Dastagir, the actor who crossed over to Hollywood on the back of an elephant
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Shammi Kapoor’s connection with the ‘Silsila’ hit ‘Neela Aasman So Gaya’
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Sinatra’s films shattered the postwar myth of the white American male
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Why Jabbar Patel’s ‘Saamna’ became a landmark film in 1975 – and remains one today
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The untold story of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s role in India’s first talkie ‘Alam Ara’
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67 years ago today, Pakistanis lined up to see the first film made in their new nation