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Mrinal Sen and Arun Kaul, co-authors of the manifesto for a new cinema movement published in 1968. (Picture courtesy the Sen family collection) A charming, chuckle-aloud comedy about a big bureaucrat ...

This year’s Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) is hosting a retrospective of Indian New Wave cinema from the 1950s to the 1970s. The 12-title line-up includes classics from filmmakers such as ...

I sometimes reminisce about a distant rainy afternoon in Barisal that changed how I see the world today. I was in my first year of university, beginning to study filmmaking. I was sitting on an old ...

Mani Kaul was enamoured by the world of mainstream cinema. Cinema in India has been seen as an alternative to an evening at the circus. Or a visit to the zoo. The audience is a passive observer, ...