Ananya Ghosh

His movies are often smorgasbords of cleverly curated pop-culture references with a scrumptious side of pastiche. The filmmaker’s recent outing is as a show creator for Amazon Prime Video’s docu-series capturing the golden age of pulp cinema of the &#8217;90s, Cinema Marte Dum Tak. A classic case of a genre agnostic die-hard fan of cinema crossing over to the other side and becoming a filmmaker, he seems to be the perfect candidate for the job

The interview

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The Interview: Q&A with Vasan Bala

Jigar Shah

It may have taken him a film festival hit and some more years to finally come to the forefront of film-making, but with his unique creative process and zest for the reel, writer-director Vasan Bala has arrived ‘Try, try, and try again until you succeed’. This adage summarises the career trajectory of the talented writer-director, [&hellip;]

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The Interview: Vasal Bala Talks About Ray, Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor And His Future Projects

Maithili Rao

From what he has said about a film-maker’s freedom to adapt literature, we can conjecture that the master would have no problem with the way Srijit Mukherji, Abhishek Chaubey, and Vasan Bala have interpreted his stories in Ray “There is always some room for improvisation.” This terse but loaded quote from Satyajit Ray precedes the [&hellip;]

Abhishek Chaubey

Satyajit Ray

Srijit Mukherji

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Current Cinema: Interpreting Satyajit Ray

MW Staff

Toronto International Film Festival 2018 has several Indian movies making us proud

bulbul can sing

mard ko dard nahin hota

rima das

ritu sarin

tenzing sonam

the sweet requiem

toronto international film festival 2018

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Indian Films At This Years’ Toronto International Film Festival To Watch Out For