TALKING FILMS
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Honey, they shrunk the Mohanlal phenomenon into ‘Lalettan’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Joint Security Area’ turns hyper-nationalism on its head
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Batt Koch’s journey: ‘The Kashmiri Pandit story is only now beginning to find the space it deserves’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ is a zany take on the AI apocalypse
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Love That Remains’ is a gentle portrait of family tensions
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Behind gender transition-themed film ‘Baapya’, an ‘important journey from denial to acceptance’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Two Prosecutors’ chillingly reveals what total state control looks like
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Start the week with a film: A bitter birthday in ‘The President’s Cake’
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Why Marathi films are all the rage again – and why this wave could last
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Third Man’ is a first-rate game of lies and shadows
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Sarmad Khoosat on ‘Lali’, desire and subverting norms: ‘Wherever I can, I take off the top soil’
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How a Bangladeshi film uses sand to explore the ‘fragility of urban, modern life’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Bhooter Bhabishyat’ is the better haunted house comedy
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‘Like ripping off a Band-Aid’: Lalit Prabhakar and Mrinmayee Godbole on ‘Toh Ti Ani Fuji’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Khalid Ka Shivaji’, the true meaning of the emperor’s legacy
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‘Neelira’: The ‘memories of a war child’ that led to the film about a Sri Lankan Tamil family
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Moon’, the singular power of a single actor
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‘Jaws’ revisited: The unsung and accidental genre in Steven Spielberg’s monster hit
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Start the week with a film: ‘A Different Man’ reinvents the maxim that beauty is skin deep
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Start the week with a film: ‘Aaranya Kaandam’ earns its cult label
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Why ‘In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones’ resonates: ‘No heroes here, just unsure characters’
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Start the week with a film: ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ is a colourful, stirring musical
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The wondrous journey of ‘Boong’, from Manipur to the BAFTAs and beyond
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Start the week with a film: War and the uplifting power of music in ‘The Choral’
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The ‘risky’ themes that united Konkona Sensharma, Pratibha Rannta and Anubhuti Kashyap for ‘Accused’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Rental Family’, an actor’s latest job is to imitate life
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Start the week with a film: Every shade of love in the musical ‘Song Sung Blue’
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Start the week with a film: The unbelievable, undeniable ‘Khoon Bhari Maang’
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‘Tu Yaa Main’ and a short history of the crocodile in cinema
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Tamil film ‘Mayilaa’ is a tribute to ‘women whose lives and pain often remain unseen and unheard’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’, the Boss in a funk
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Start the week with a film: ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is a candy-coloured entertainer
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‘Start the week with a film: Unshowy thriller ‘Kalamkaval’ sees Mammotty in a shocking role
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Shakti Samanta centenary: ‘There wasn’t a moment when he wasn’t thinking of films’
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Start the week with a film: A sea of love and heartbreak in ‘Moothon’
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Start the week with a film: ‘In ‘Sorry, Baby’, talking about rape and survival
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Start the week with a film: ‘Sinners’ is a dazzling exploration of the horrors of racism
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The best Indian films of 2025: Sabar Bonda, Dhadak 2, Bad Girl and more
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Bollywood’s mantra in 2025: If it bleeds, it leads
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Paresh Kamdar, indie cinema’s foremost rhythm diviner
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Start the week with a film: Beauty and brutality in ‘Train Dreams’
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‘Who’s laughing last? The world we live in’: Kelly Reichardt unpacks ‘The Mastermind’
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Start the week with a film: The power of love and memory in ‘I’m Still Here’
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‘The Elysian Field’ preview: ‘Paradise can be the people with whom we share our lives’
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‘Sholay’ revisited: Three pivotal scenes in Ramesh Sippy’s classic film
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Start the week with a film: ‘Left-Handed Girl’ is a heart-melting journey of a family
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Start the week with a film: Shah Rukh Khan is at his evil best in ‘Anjaam’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Bison Kaalamaadan’, a kabaddi player grapples with life itself
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Dashavatar’, ‘Kantara’ comes to the Konkan
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Bride of Frankenstein’, the Creature hunts for a companion
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Interview: ‘Ritwik Ghatak was far ahead of his time, addressing issues that remain very real today’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Hedda’, smiles and barbs as a woman seeks to control her destiny
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In a village in the hills, women wait for their husbands while eating apples and dodging snakes
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Raat’, a never-ending night of terror
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Start the week with a film: In ‘The Perfect Neighbor’, a starring role for bodycam footage
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Start the week with the film: Brotherhood and betrayal in ‘Garuda Gamana Vrishabha Vahana’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Presence’, a ghost bears witness to a fraying family
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In Kannada film ‘Don’t Tell Mother’, childhood is magical but painful too
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Start the week with a film: ‘The Master’ is a masterful study of a cult leader and his follower
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‘Bad Girl’ director Varsha Bharath: ‘The mother-daughter relationship is the central romance’
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In Delhi-set film ‘Khidki Gaav’, a window into a couple’s travails
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Start the week with a film: The value and romance of journalism in ‘All The President’s Men’
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Why ‘Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra’ worked: ‘It is possible to make an honest film in an honest way’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Dolores Claiborne’, a woman wonders if her mother has killed – twice
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How ‘Sabar Bonda’ draws us into the heads and hearts of its lovers
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Start the week with a film: Surveillance and paranoia in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Conversation’
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Remembering ‘Kalai Ganga’, the iconic art director from Tamil cinema’s studio era
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‘Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra’: Five reasons why everyone is talking about the Malayalam superhero film
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In film ‘Songs of Forgotten Trees’, the sisterhood between two women who share a flat
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Start the week with a film: In Korean thriller ‘Sleep’, the horrors of modern marriage
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Start the week with a film: ‘Dekh Tamasha Dekh’ skewers self-declared guardians of religion
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In Gulzar’s cinema, estranged lovers, joie de vivre and great songs
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Start the week with a film: Revisiting ‘Shakti’, the other Ramesh Sippy classic
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In FTII memory project A Room Of Our Own, a reminder that women were there too
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What ‘Sholay’ is not
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Start the week with a film: ‘Parking’ is an engaging game of one-upmanship
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‘Beginning’ and ‘April’ director interview: ‘I make films to grasp the true beauty of human nature’
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Start the week with a film: Amy Adams is barking brilliant in ‘Nightbitch’
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Why ‘Su From So’ has gone from under-the-radar Kannada film to a breakout hit
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Moonwalk’, Michael Jackson comes to Kerala
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‘Saiyaara’ is a surprise blockbuster only for those who weren’t watching closely
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Start the week with a film: Bhutan-set ‘The Monk and the Gun’ is a charming comedy about modernity
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Malayalam film ‘Feminist Fathima’ is a ‘challenge to people who don’t want to change with the times’
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Far away but not forgotten: How Indo-Caribbean filmmakers have traced their roots
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Start the week with a film: ‘Coup!’ takes potshots at the class divide
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‘Confused product of a confused brain’: When Guru Dutt cast a spell over everyone – except one man
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Unaad’, the tug between heart and head
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‘Exoticised, alienised, villainised’: A book looks at how Muslims have been portrayed in Hindi films
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Start the week with a film: Texture and layers in murder mystery ‘Only the River Flows’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Deep Cover’, improv comedians are both joke and punchline
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Why the film ‘Punjab ’95’ hasn’t seen light of day
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Start the week with a film: Why ‘Alappuzha Gymkhana’ is and isn’t about boxing
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‘Umrao Jaan’ director Muzaffar Ali: ‘The film has aged gracefully. It’s timeless but fresh too’
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Start the week with a film: In ‘Night Courier’, a seriocomic battle for survival
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Start the week with a film: ‘Mountainhead’ is a grim satire about tech billionaires
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From the archives: How Raj Khosla and Guru Dutt struck up an instant friendship
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Start the week with a film: ‘Black Dog’ is a poignant tale of feral dogs and stray humans
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Start the week with a film: In ‘One of Them Days’, two women go to hilarious lengths to pay the rent
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Simi Garewal on Satyajit Ray’s ‘Aranyer Din Ratri’: ‘A great director opens out the world to you’
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Are we ready for our final reckoning with Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ movies?