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Stealing bread: How Deewaar reimagined an episode from Les Miserables

Not surprisingly, rewatching Deewaar now is still an enriching experience

Updated On: 09 Feb 2025 | 4:02 PM IST

The urge to throw a stone

In Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light, the symbolic protest of two working-class women echoes a rich and radical tradition in Indian cinema

Updated On: 05 Jan 2025 | 11:29 AM IST

Frames per second: Exploding heads in the time of Oppenheimer

Western and Japanese artists found inspiration for post-humanist visions in the years following Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Updated On: 04 Aug 2023 | 7:18 PM IST

Total Recall: Two Indias for midnight's children

While an Indian documentary captured the hopes and fears of young citizens in 1967, a French film depicted the chaos

Updated On: 07 Aug 2022 | 8:17 AM IST

Frames per Second: The Big Bad Bollywood Wedding

Fans obsess over celebrity weddings such as Ranbir-Alia. But the big fat Indian wedding is inalienable from Bollywood

Updated On: 17 Apr 2022 | 10:41 AM IST

Frames per Second: Waiting for the Barbarians

Re-watching Newton is a must during the election season to remind ourselves of the essentially performative nature of Indian democracy

Updated On: 11 Apr 2021 | 8:34 AM IST

Frames per Second: In custody, then and now

Anand Patwardhan's film Prisoner of Conscience, on political prisoners in India during the Emergency, has some deep resonances for our times

Updated On: 23 Feb 2021 | 2:02 PM IST

Frames per Second: Banality of Law

Chaitanya Tamhane's Court has eerie echoes for our contemporary times

Updated On: 22 Jan 2021 | 1:59 PM IST

Frames per Second: Music for tragedy

The stunning narrative and music of Haqeeqat tried to spin India's defeat in the 1962 China war as a tale of sacrifice

Updated On: 19 Jun 2020 | 5:31 PM IST

Frames per Second: The long walk home

The precarious existence of millions of people in the unorganised sector was thrown into sharp relief by the lockdown

Updated On: 10 Apr 2020 | 6:33 PM IST

Frames per Second: So easy to kill a man

As uneasy calm settles on Delhi, there is little hope for sprouting love like between Mr and Mrs Iyer

Updated On: 07 Mar 2020 | 1:35 PM IST

Frames per Second: Chilli flakes and resistance

Like in the movie Mirch Masala, a status quo has been established by the women of Shaheen Bagh, which has become synonymous with countrywide protests against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act

Updated On: 07 Feb 2020 | 6:11 PM IST

Frames per Second: Remember Derozio, enfant terrible of Bengali Renaissance

An almost forgotten Bengali film casts light on the current turmoil on campuses

Updated On: 17 Jan 2020 | 6:07 PM IST

Frames per second: The Spectre of the camps

Research has shown most Germans were well aware of what was going on at the detention centres

Updated On: 03 Jan 2020 | 5:48 PM IST

Blood and water: The strange link between CAA and a 1958 Bollywood classic

The contentious CAA and protests against it find echoes in Yahudi

Updated On: 27 Dec 2019 | 5:35 PM IST

Frames per Second: Defending democracy

Woodward and Bernstein had described Watergate as an attack on American democracy. It seems too close home now

Updated On: 15 Nov 2019 | 11:36 AM IST

Frames per Second: Becoming Inspector Mike Lobo in a broken system

Govind Nihalani's 'Ardh Satya' takes an uncompromising look at how the system breaks down a police officer

Updated On: 28 Jun 2019 | 7:31 PM IST

Frames per second: Chowkidars and lynch mobs

A nearly forgotten Raj Kapoor film shows us what a society can become when it surrenders to vigilante justice

Updated On: 07 Jun 2019 | 9:22 AM IST

Frames per second: Why Amol Palekar needs Doctor Mama and Deven

Lessons actor-filmmaker Amol Palekar can learn from Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Gol Maal

Updated On: 15 Feb 2019 | 5:03 PM IST

'Ek Doctor Ki Maut' and the dangers of bureaucracy superseding science

Tapan Sinha's Ek Doctor Ki Maut shows us the dangers of bureaucracy superseding science

Updated On: 11 Jan 2019 | 9:48 AM IST