Editor’s Note: Is the Great Indian Documentary on the cusp of another kind of great?
1 year, 8 months ago

Editor’s Note: Is the Great Indian Documentary on the cusp of another kind of great?

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 13, 2023 11:00 IST - 3 MINS READ Documentary filmmaking is sometimes dated back to Robert Paul’s 1895 film about the Chicago World’s Fair. As the film director Goutam Ghose tells Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay, the works that Films Division produced down the years are a “priceless audiovisual documentation of our history”. Is the Great Indian Documentary on the cusp of another kind of great? Don’t miss former ambassador Talmiz Ahmad’s superb essay on the slow demise of political Islam or the Tamil writer Jeyamohan’s tour de force that questions the legitimacy of the sceptre in a democracy.

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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 …

To certify or not to certify: How India’s documentary filmmakers strengthen free speech
1 year, 8 months ago

To certify or not to certify: How India’s documentary filmmakers strengthen free speech

The Hindu  

It is a fact that documentary films have driven significant advancements in India’s freedom of speech and expression laws. The constitutional triumphs of documentary filmmakers are, however, only one part of the story of how documentary cinema has influenced and shaped the discourse and practice of free speech, and this account would be incomplete without an acknowledgement of the dual-pronged …

A fresh interest in documentaries signals the dawn of a new era
1 year, 8 months ago

A fresh interest in documentaries signals the dawn of a new era

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 13, 2023 11:00 IST - 14 MINS READ The success of two Indian documentaries at the international level—Kartiki Gonsalves’ The Elephant Whisperers and Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes—is noteworthy because, like fiction films, Indian documentaries have not generally made a mark outside the country. The best-known documentary filmmakers in India would be those like Anand Patwardhan, who …

The documentary movement in India
6 years, 11 months ago

The documentary movement in India

The Hindu  

AS far as literature on Indian cinema is concerned, the preferences and prejudices are pronounced: first comes Hindi cinema, which is considered “national cinema”; then comes the preoccupation with full-length feature films, followed by its major auteurs. Only feature films and film-makers are considered worthy of attention; documentary films, film-makers and movements across the country rarely figure in historical and …

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 …

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