A glimpse into history of Indian cinema through national museum
6 years, 2 months ago

A glimpse into history of Indian cinema through national museum

Live Mint  

Mumbai: The century-old journey of Indian cinema is set to come to life again on Saturday with the inauguration of the country’s first National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai. The museum has been built by NBCC Limited and is housed in an elegant 19th century heritage bungalow, Gulshan Mahal, along with another newly built state-of-the-art NMIC building that has five floors and two mezzanine floors with a total built up area of 12,000sq. We are grateful to the ministry of information and broadcasting for letting us be a partner in showcasing India’s rich cinematic legacy to the public,” said NBCC chairman and managing director Anoop Kumar. Gulshan Mahal, a Victorian bungalow built in the neo-Gothic style, which once drew luminaries to its musical soirées and cultural gatherings, is now equipped with modern amenities and facilities, including expansive auditoriums, in a endeavour to make the complex a potential movie hub, he said.

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Film and entertainment centre to be set up in Mumbai: Ashish Shelar
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Film and entertainment centre to be set up in Mumbai: Ashish Shelar

Hindustan Times  

The state government has allotted 10 acres of land in Mumbai’s Film City to establish a centre of excellence for the film and entertainment industry, cultural affairs minister Ashish Shelar announced at the inauguration of the 23rd Pune International Film Festival at Ganesh Kala Krida Manch on Thursday. Left to Right Dr. Jabbar Patel, Swati Mhase Patil, Vikas Kharge, Shubha …

Cinema with purpose
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Cinema with purpose

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: Indian film, if it can be brought down to an industrial homogeneity, is an entity that often creates its own perils. With the Film Federation of India proverbially shooting itself in the foot by snubbing Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light for the Oscars, Bollywood on the other hand seems to have admitted a quiet death whose primary …

Cinema With Purpose
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Cinema With Purpose

New Indian Express  

Indian film, if it can be brought down to an industrial homogeneity, is an entity that often creates its own perils. With the Film Federation of India proverbially shooting itself in the foot by snubbing Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light for the Oscars, Boll, on the other hand, seems to have admitted a quiet death whose primary symptom …

Celebrating 25 Years of Transforming Bengali Cinema: Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee's Legacy and Vision for the Future
2 months ago

Celebrating 25 Years of Transforming Bengali Cinema: Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee's Legacy and Vision for the Future

Firstpost  

Last year, the duo has gifted its audience with projects like: Dabaru, a biographical sports drama about Indian Chess Grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly For 25 years, Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee have been pioneers in shaping Bengali cinema. Last year, the duo has gifted its audience with projects like: Dabaru, a biographical sports drama about Indian Chess Grandmaster Surya Sekhar …

The cinema ecosystem Shyam Benegal created
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3 months ago

The cinema ecosystem Shyam Benegal created

Hindustan Times  

I think many cinema lovers would agree that one of the most memorable scenes of Indian cinema is the small child chucking a stone at the landlord’s window at the end of Ankur, Shyam Benegal’s directorial debut. Shyam Benegal planted a seedling/ankur with his debut of a different storytelling sensibility in Hindi cinema and sustained that spirit in the numerous …

Safarnama: Dedication to four legendary film artists at IFFI
4 months, 1 week ago

Safarnama: Dedication to four legendary film artists at IFFI

New Indian Express  

GOA: ‘Safarnama’, an exhibition dedicated to the four legendary artists of Indian cinema, Raj Kapoor, Mohammed Rafi, Tapan Sinha and Akkineni Nageswara Rao is one of the new features added to this International Film Festival of India being held in Goa. The exhibition honours these four cinematic legends with curated content and rare archival materials, including posters, videos, and memorabilia, …

Glam & glitz: 9-day-long celebration of cinematic heritage at IFFI begins
4 months, 1 week ago

Glam & glitz: 9-day-long celebration of cinematic heritage at IFFI begins

New Indian Express  

In a video message played at the inauguration ceremony, Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ashwini Vaishnaw said that with the addition of technology and the development of the creator ecosystem, India can play a major role in the way the creator economy is shaping up. We have a very vibrant creators’ economy where people come up with very innovative …

Enter the expansive world of Indian cinema
7 months, 1 week ago

Enter the expansive world of Indian cinema

India Today  

Imagine walking into a large hall to discover memorabilia, photographs, posters, booklets, polaroids, paintings, merchandise and diverse physical as well as pictorial depictions representing Indian cinema right from the silent era to contemporary times that denotes the evolution of movies in this country. It is to shed light on the famous, the not-so-known and even the forgotten aspects of Indian …

Indian cinema had a watershed moment at Cannes Film Festival 2024. Is the industry watching?
10 months ago

Indian cinema had a watershed moment at Cannes Film Festival 2024. Is the industry watching?

Hindustan Times  

"Please don't wait another 30 years to have an Indian film," said director Payal Kapadia at the closing ceremony of the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Payal Kapadia with her cast Chhaya Kadam, Divya Prabha and Kani Kusruti after she was awarded with the Grand Prix for the film All We Imagine as Light by Viola Davis during …

Beyond blockbusters: Leveraging international festivals for theatrical success
1 year ago

Beyond blockbusters: Leveraging international festivals for theatrical success

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Amid shifting dynamics in the film industry post-covid, content-driven movies, lacking big budgets or star power, are strategically leveraging international film festivals to bolster their marketing initiatives for theatrical releases in India. In recent weeks, Zee Studios’ Joram, Karan Johar’s Kill, and Aamir Khan-backed Laapata Ladies, among others, have announced theatrical releases after touring the international film festival …

From classics to now - Google's huge online Hindi Cinema tour. Deets inside
1 year, 4 months ago

From classics to now - Google's huge online Hindi Cinema tour. Deets inside

India TV News  

Google Arts & Culture has introduced a new initiative to digitally showcase the rich history of the Hindi film industry. This online exhibition, the largest of its kind, employs technology like Google’s Augmented Reality and Street View to create an immersive experience. Union Minister Encourages Exhibition Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur also encouraged everyone to visit the exhibition, either at …

10 years of Ram-Leela: Sanjay Leela Bhansali ushered a new genre in Indian cinema with Ranveer-Deepika starrer
1 year, 4 months ago

10 years of Ram-Leela: Sanjay Leela Bhansali ushered a new genre in Indian cinema with Ranveer-Deepika starrer

Firstpost  

The chemistry between Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone was electric, and their performances added layers of depth to the characters, making the film an instant classic In the vibrant tapestry of Indian cinema, Sanjay Leela Bhansali stands as a luminary, and his magnum opus, “Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela,” released a decade ago, serves as a perfect example of his artistic …

Film Heritage Foundation Announces Dev Anand Film Festival
1 year, 6 months ago

Film Heritage Foundation Announces Dev Anand Film Festival

ABP News  

New Delhi: Ahead of the 100th birth anniversary of Dev Anand that falls on the 26th of September, Film Heritage Foundation announces a unique festival titled 'Dev Anand@100 - Forever Young', that pays tribute to the timeless entertainment icon. Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Filmmaker and Director, Film Heritage Foundation stated, "After a successful run with 'Bachchan Back To The Beginning' and …

Union Minister of State for I&B inaugurates India pavilion at Marche du Film
1 year, 10 months ago

Union Minister of State for I&B inaugurates India pavilion at Marche du Film

The Hindu  

Union Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting L. Murugan inaugurated the India pavilion at Cannes’ Marché du Film on Wednesday. Addressing a gathering, Mr. Murugan said today India was the world’s largest producer of films with over 3,000 films in more than 50 languages. “This remarkable surge is a testament to the robustness of India’s M&E industry and its …

Why RRR is a watershed in the history of Indian cinema
2 years, 1 month ago

Why RRR is a watershed in the history of Indian cinema

Live Mint  

Telugu movie RRR recently became India’s highest-grossing film; its song Naatu Naatu went viral around the world and was nominated for an Oscar for best original song; director Rajamouli won the New York Film Critics Circle award for best director; and the movie has been playing in American theatres since its release last summer. What’s different now is a combination …

‘Cinema of aspiration’: The romance filmmakers who redefined Bollywood’s quintessential genre
2 years, 1 month ago

‘Cinema of aspiration’: The romance filmmakers who redefined Bollywood’s quintessential genre

CNN  

CNN — A woman in a billowy white dress runs through a bright green and yellow field, her long hair streaming behind her as she reunites with the man she loves in “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge,” one of the most successful Indian movies of all time. “DDLJ” was produced by the late Yash Chopra, a man often referred to as …

Boycott Bollywood, OTT vs Theatre Have Stirred Up Movie Industry but What Are Viewers Really Looking For?
2 years, 7 months ago

Boycott Bollywood, OTT vs Theatre Have Stirred Up Movie Industry but What Are Viewers Really Looking For?

News 18  

Cineworld, the second largest theatre chain globally, is inching closer to its demise. Out of all films Khan has done in this millennium, ‘Lal Singh Chadha’ opened to the weakest financial response — just Rs 11.7 crore. Take ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’, ‘Kashmir Files’, and other south Indian films like ‘RRR’, which attracted people to the cinema hall in large numbers,” …

From Nehru to New India: Five films that capture Hindi cinema’s 75-year journey
2 years, 7 months ago

From Nehru to New India: Five films that capture Hindi cinema’s 75-year journey

Firstpost  

Nothing can be a bigger testimony of New India in cinema than ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’, and the reaction of the critics and audiences sums up the 75-year journey One of the most powerful communication tools, cinema, has long been used by powers across nations to craft the thinking of its people. Majrooh was imprisoned for an anti-Nehru line in …

National Museum of Indian Cinema to host film festival on Satyajit Ray’s birth anniversary
2 years, 10 months ago

National Museum of Indian Cinema to host film festival on Satyajit Ray’s birth anniversary

The Hindu  

On the 101st birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray, the National Museum of Indian Cinema, Mumbai under the Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry will host a three-day film festival at various venues across India to screen films made by the legendary filmmaker. National Museum of Indian Cinema, Mumbai in association with the National Film Development Corporation, Films Division, National Film Archives …

Indian cinema created identity for India in world, says Anurag Thakur
2 years, 11 months ago

Indian cinema created identity for India in world, says Anurag Thakur

Firstpost  

The minister also remarked about the pain taken by the filmmakers and technicians of those times in carrying such big cameras on rough terrain to shoot films Mumbai: Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Wednesday visited the National Museum of Indian Cinema at the Films Division Complex on Pedder Road in Mumbai and said that Indian cinema …

How film societies fostered a culture of art cinema in India
3 years, 5 months ago

How film societies fostered a culture of art cinema in India

Live Mint  

What exactly did the film societies do? Dasgupta’s use of such words as “creative” cinema or “cultured” people indicates that film societies in the early years were fired with a sense of cultural superiority and aimed to create “value- distinctions,” in Pierre Bourdieu’s sense, among different kinds of films. Technology had not made a real impact, and the need had …

Hindi Cinema is Capable of Healing and Strengthening Itself, Writes Prasoon Joshi
4 years, 6 months ago

Hindi Cinema is Capable of Healing and Strengthening Itself, Writes Prasoon Joshi

News 18  

Cinema, over the last century, has welded itself into the cultural narrative, achieving an impact that no other singular medium could. Let’s understand more intricately why Cinema related issues have become increasingly polemical. What was forgotten was that cinema and many professional industries that emanate from art could not be judged like other businesses, or balance sheet made chief spokesperson. …

Single window clearance to facilitate collaboration of Indian filmmakers, foreign production houses
5 years, 10 months ago

Single window clearance to facilitate collaboration of Indian filmmakers, foreign production houses

India TV News  

Integration of Indian filmmakers with production houses worldwide will be facilitated with initiatives such as co-production and single window clearance, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Secretary Amit Khare said Monday ahead of the inauguration of India Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival. The Pavilion will showcase Indian cinema across linguistic, cultural and regional diversity, with the aim of forging international …

“How’s the josh?” asks PM Modi at the inauguration of the National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai
6 years, 2 months ago

“How’s the josh?” asks PM Modi at the inauguration of the National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai

Op India  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated country’s first National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai. #WATCH: PM Modi asks “How’s the josh?” at the inauguration of National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai. Smartly taking a dig at the previous government, Modi said that like government schemes movies also used to take years earlier but now both the movies …

PM Modi inaugurates museum on Indian cinema, meets Aamir Khan, Kangana Ranaut. See pics
6 years, 2 months ago

PM Modi inaugurates museum on Indian cinema, meets Aamir Khan, Kangana Ranaut. See pics

Hindustan Times  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai on Saturday. Poonam Dhillon, Aamir Khan and Aanand L Rai and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at newly opened National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai. Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks at the statue of showman Rajkapoor during the opening of the National Museum of Indian Cinema in …

Narendra Modi to inaugurate National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai on 19 January
6 years, 2 months ago

Narendra Modi to inaugurate National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai on 19 January

Firstpost  

National Museum of Indian Cinema aims to take its visitors through an absorbing journey of over a century of Indian cinema in a story telling mode with the help of visuals, graphics, artifacts, interactive exhibits and multimedia expositions New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on 19 January inaugurate the National Museum of Indian Cinema that seeks to portray the …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to unveil national film museum in Mumbai
6 years, 2 months ago

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to unveil national film museum in Mumbai

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Saturday inaugurate the National Museum of Indian Cinema that has come up in a 19th century heritage bungalow and a modern building in the country's film capital, an official said here on Thursday. The NMIC will provide a glimpse into the Indian film history and help film students, film-makers, fans and critics to learn …

Making India proud at the 71st Cannes Film Festival
6 years, 10 months ago

Making India proud at the 71st Cannes Film Festival

Hindustan Times  

The air feels fresh and pulsating with the action across this picturesque town. Because it is for the first time, after 2002, that the Indian government has made special efforts to not just send a delegation that is truly India representative, but also take critical actions to connect the dots globally for young, Indian filmmakers, simultaneously opening up India for …

Amitabh Bachchan launches book titled Bollywood-The Films, says will support documenting Indian cinema's history
7 years, 3 months ago

Amitabh Bachchan launches book titled Bollywood-The Films, says will support documenting Indian cinema's history

India TV News  

Amitabh on Saturday launched "Bollywood - The Films! Please give it more attention, value and respect because the Indian film industry is truly a very respectful place," Amitabh said. He said, "I have always had great admiration for him because there are very few amongst us, unfortunately, that have never taken up the idea or the thought of documenting the …

House Full: Sociologist Lakshmi Srinivas looks at Indian cinema from the audience's perspective
8 years, 1 month ago

House Full: Sociologist Lakshmi Srinivas looks at Indian cinema from the audience's perspective

Firstpost  

The Indian film fan is a creature of decidedly peculiar habits. For her unique study which spanned over 15 years, Srinivas went to single screen as well as the newer multiplex theatres in Bengaluru and extensively interviewed habitués, fans, theater managers, directors and producers in the South Indian film industry and Bollywood, to offer some delightful sociological insights into what …

Documenting India
8 years, 11 months ago

Documenting India

The Hindu  

A HEARTENING development in recent years is the growing body of literature on the Indian documentary film, depicting its transformational role in society and its place in the history of resistance to state brutality and the struggle against various interests intent on riding roughshod over citizens’ rights to serve corporate greed. Art house cinema emerged as a challenge to this …

Made it! Mumbai Film Festival finally gets ready to roll
10 years, 6 months ago

Made it! Mumbai Film Festival finally gets ready to roll

Live Mint  

The Mumbai Film Festival, which was on the brink of closure a few weeks ago, has rallied enough funds and goodwill to hold a press conference at the fancy Hotel Novotel and announce the highlights of its 16th edition. Richard Linklater’s hotly anticipated Boyhood, in which he follows a character over an 11-year period, will, however, come to Mumbai, as …

'Awara', 'Pyasa', 'Mother India' to be screened at Italian film fest
10 years, 8 months ago

'Awara', 'Pyasa', 'Mother India' to be screened at Italian film fest

Firstpost  

Indian classic cinema of the 1950s and rare newsreels including one showing a meeting between Mahatma Gandhi and Charlie Chaplin in London, are part of a renowned international film fest currently underway in Italy. Eight black-and-white films including legendary Hindi cinema like ‘Awara’, ‘Pyaasa’, ‘Mother India’ and S S Vasan’s iconic ‘Chandralekha’ in Tamil are up for screening at the …

‘High time for a film society movement’
10 years, 9 months ago

‘High time for a film society movement’

The Hindu  

“I think it is high time that Tamil Nadu has a film society movement, permeating into the B and C centres,” iconic actor and film-maker Kamal Haasan, says. Mr. Haasan, also chairman of FICCI’s Media and Entertainment Committee, says the trade body has taken a “step forward” by facilitating Indian film-makers and businesses in the global market. “What was even …

‘Aesthetic struggle alone matters’
11 years, 5 months ago

‘Aesthetic struggle alone matters’

The Hindu  

What is ‘Indian’ about Indian cinema? The way all the indifference around affects us, has it something to do with the framework of artistic differentiation we generally apply to judge a person and put him on our list of importance? In my last Malayalam feature film, Chitra Sutram, I tried to posit it on an interaction between a human being …

Mumbai Film Festival to sport new look
11 years, 9 months ago

Mumbai Film Festival to sport new look

Hindustan Times  

The Mumbai Film Festival is all set to sport a new look. 15th-Mumbai-Film-Festival Keeping in tune with the city’s most memorable landmark, Gateway of India, the Festival’s new icon will be an artistic interpretation of the Indo-Saracenic monument, built by the Scottish architect, George Wittet, who also designed Mumbai’s Prince of Wales Museum. The new icon while conveying the Festival’s …

Indian cinema: An epic journey
11 years, 10 months ago

Indian cinema: An epic journey

Live Mint  

In 2011, the Central Board of Film Certification allowed 1,255 Indian films for public distribution, of which 206 were in Hindi. A century ago, when Dadasaheb Phalke made Raja Harishchandra, classification based on language was unnecessary, since Phalke’s film was silent, a universal language that all Indians understood instinctively. I recall Saeed Mirza introducing Ketan Mehta’s 1980 film Bhavni Bhavai …

'Bombay Talkies' tribute to cinema today: Dibakar Banerjee
11 years, 11 months ago

'Bombay Talkies' tribute to cinema today: Dibakar Banerjee

India TV News  

Mumbai, April 23: Dibakar Banerjee describes himself as a loner who was never part of any club and thanks "Bombay Talkies" for helping him enter an exclusive club. A compilation of four short films celebrating 100 years of Indian cinema, "Bombay Talkies" has three more segments by Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap and Karan Johar The director of hits like "Khosla …

Veterans feted to mark Indian cinema’s century
12 years, 3 months ago

Veterans feted to mark Indian cinema’s century

The Hindu  

The Bangalore International Film Festival remembered the 100-year history of Indian cinema by felicitating some of the biggest names, including actors Vyjayantimala Bali, B. Saroja Devi, Sahukar Janaki and cinematographer V.K. I’m sorry that we see more ugly films these days.” She said she had been part of the Indian film industry for 64 years. Nair, founder director of the …

‘Indian directors lack courage to take up real issues’
14 years, 3 months ago

‘Indian directors lack courage to take up real issues’

The Hindu  

“Indian film directors lack the courage to take up real issues of India today.” Film-makers Jabbar Patel and Sooni Taraporevala agreed with this view at the open forum of the International Film Festival of Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. She added that “such films may not be in the category that get into the film festivals, but keep making films …

Movie buffs get a taste of Indian culture
14 years, 7 months ago

Movie buffs get a taste of Indian culture

Hindustan Times  

Movie buffs in Kathmandu enjoyed a feast of India’s most popular cultural export this April. HT Image A film festival showcasing leading ladies of the Indian silver screen was a breath of fresh air as ties between Nepal and India go through a difficult phase. A talk by Shabana Azmi, Odissi and Kathakali performances and concerts by Nepali and Indian …

Museum tribute to film history
14 years, 9 months ago

Museum tribute to film history

Hindustan Times  

A century-old haveli in Mumbai will become a living museum tribute to Indian cinema to mark the centenary of India’s first feature film Raja Harish Chandra. HT Image In 2013, the centenary of Dada Saheb Phalke’s film, Gulshan Mahal in Mumbai will house the Museum of Moving Images. The museum will include films in almost every Indian language, silent films, …

Global glimpses
15 years, 4 months ago

Global glimpses

The Hindu  

WHEN I received an invitation from the Film Federation of India to be the chairman of the jury for a Global Cinema Festival it was to hold, I was initially intrigued by the choice of Indore as the festival venue. Possibly motivated by this fact, the Film Federation of India decided to encourage film production in Madhya Pradesh, and as …

Cinema with a purpose
27 years, 7 months ago

Cinema with a purpose

The Hindu  

Although India is the largest producer of films in the world, quality films represent a minuscule minority of the films produced. Even in Bombay, the prime seat of commercial Indian cinema, there emerged a kind of cinema that was different from the popular variety, one which had great regional character. Around the same time India also had a kind of …

Evaluating popular cinema
27 years, 7 months ago

Evaluating popular cinema

The Hindu  

SUNIL DUTT says that the idealism of the early post-Independence films is a thing of the past, reflecting the social reality that today the common man is sceptical about ideals like patriotism. Other pioneers were Guru Dutt, who made Pyaasa and Sahib, Bibi aur Gulam; Bimal-da who made Do Bigha Zamin, Sujata, Bandhini and Madhumati; Mehboob Khan, who made Aan, …

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