Adah Sharma in ‘The Kerala Story’ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The radicalisation and trafficking of gullible girls to germinate terror is a story waiting to be told. But the way director Sudipto Sen tells The Kerala Story, after years of research, is more burlesque than a sincere depiction of the problem. More like a companion piece […]
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Ranbir won the Best Actor award for his performance in ‘Brahmastra,’ while Alia won the Best Actress award for ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ | Photo Credit: ANI The Dadasaheb Phalke International film festival awards ceremony was held at a five-star hotel in Mumbai on Monday. The ceremony saw SS Rajamouli’s blockbuster film RRR bag the Film Of […]
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Ranbir Kapoor won the Best Actor award for his performance in ‘Brahmastra,’ while Alia Bhatt won the Best Actress award for ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ | Photo Credit: ANI The Dadasaheb Phalke International film festival awards ceremony was held at a five-star hotel in Mumbai on Monday. The ceremony saw SS Rajamouli’s blockbuster film RRR bag the […]
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In 1938, Charlie Chaplin started work on The Great Dictator. Even though it critiqued the Nazis, Chaplin was forced to self-sponsor, direct and write the project himself because most mainstream Hollywood studios were hesitant to disrupt ties to German finance, or risk making an overtly political project. Additionally, many in the establishment felt appeasing Adolf […]
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Towards the end of 2021, when one reached Delite Diamond — a single-screen theatre at the cusp of Old Delhi — to watch the press show of Ranveer Singh’s much-awaited 83, a flummoxed usher asked the critics to wait because the previous show was houseful. As COVID-19 was very much around, one got curious as […]
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Ambassador of Israel to India, Naor Gilon. | Photo Credit: Twitter@NaorGilon Crude antisemitic messages were sent to the Israeli envoy Naor Gilon after Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, who was invited to chair the jury at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, described The Kashmir Files, a film directed by Vivek Agnihotri about […]
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George Orwell famously said all art is propaganda. It is important to distinguish between good and bad propaganda. The novelist and literary critic’s statement became relevant all over again as the 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India suddenly came alive during its closing ceremony when the head of the international jury Nadav […]
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Israeli filmmaker and IFFI jury head Nadav Lapid, known for his anti-establishment stance, said his remarks were neither a statement on the political situation in Kashmir nor a denial of the tragedy. File | Photo Credit: PTI Offering a “total apology” if his remarks on ” The Kashmir Files“ had been misinterpreted, Israeli filmmaker Nadav […]
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The story so far: Critically acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid has found himself at the centre of a controversy after he described director Vivek Agnihotri’s film ‘ The Kashmir Files’ as “vulgar” and “propaganda” at the closing ceremony of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) late on Monday, November 28. Mr. Lapid, the […]
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B”The Kashmir Files” director Vivek Agnihotri on Tuesday said he will quit filmmaking if intellectuals, including Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, are able to prove that events depicted in his film are false. A day after Mr. Lapid, who served as the chairperson of IFFI’s international jury termed “The Kashmir Files” “vulgar and propaganda”, Mr. Agnihotri […]
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