Meenakshi Bharat’s Hindi Cinema and Pakistan: Screening the Idea and the Reality (published by Routledge in 2025) explores how Hindi…
Cinema is not only a powerful tool of leisure, entertainment, and culture in society but importantly a reflection, even if…
The Barbed Wires While the desire to wake up to an independent nation was high among the people, the great…
Shah Rukh Khan’s yet another blockbuster (Jawaan) on ‘mass hero image’ runs in theatres as I write. Much has been…
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. KYA TUM MUSALMAN HO?: KAL/YESTERDAY (OR, WHICH FILM…
The world of cinema, like any other, has found itself faced with increased scrutiny in recent times (and rightly so)…
I grew up watching commercial Bollywood films[i]. Though now I am more exposed to cinema from across the world, I…