Alaka Sahani

Like her earlier feature Cargo, writer-director Arati Kadav once again infuses human emotions in sci-fi through her latest short, 55kms/sec.

Director Ankit Kothari recounts his journey of finding the perfect location and cast for Paanchika, which opened the Indian Panorama (Non-Feature) segment of IFFI

On the terrace of the building where Studio Tamaasha is located, space was created for the audience to wait before the show, actors to perform and the seating area.

Tripti Dimri on trying to move on from the role that brought her acclaim

The role of a weary and introverted policeman in the nine-episode show has been the best and most challenging in Ahlawat’s decade-long career.

Tripti Dimri, Divyenndu, Pratik Gandhi, Jaideep Ahlawat, Abhishek Banerjee, Shalini Vatsa, Jitendra Kumar and Shreya Dhanwanthary talk about their unusual roles which owned the OTT medium

Once a reluctant film actor, Shalini Vatsa explored her comic potential with Ludo this year and found acclaim

Actor Abhishek Banerjee, who also does casting, drew from his past experiences to play a cold-blooded killer in Paatal Lok

Writer-director Vetri Maaran's short film Oor Iravu, which is part of the Tamil film anthology Paava Kadhaigal and features Prakash Raj and Sai Pallavi, takes a searing look at patriarchy.

Committed to create multi-dimensional African heritage characters in her stories, Tanzanian-American filmmaker Ekwa Msangi in her debut feature Farewell Amor tells the deeply personal story of an Angolan immigrant family.

The inaugural episode of 'Now Hear Us' also offers some glimpses into the musicians' life as it shows Modak picking up his accompanists after leaving his Borivali home.

Notwithstanding the slowing down of production due to Covid, it has been a busy year for actor Pankaj Tripathi. This includes release of web-series Mirzapur 2, marking his return as Kaleen Bhaiya.

Filmmaker Prakash Jha on playing the protagonist in M Gani-directed Matto Ki Saikal which captures the struggles of a daily wage labourer.

As he returns with a new film, the writer-director talks about learning from his mistakes and his love for music

The 53-year-old director on the making of his web series, Scam 1992, holding strong in the face of failures and why he speaks up on social media

The delegates of the ongoing edition of Dharamshala International Film Festival will miss the mountain air and intimacy but will have access to a larger bouquet of movies

Bollywood has spent the better part of this year looking over its shoulders as the Sushant Singh Rajput probe advances, and expands. The powers-that-be have long eyed the tinsel town, but is there a plot twist under BJP? The Indian Express goes behind the scenes of a Covid-battered, nervous industry

What is interesting about these stories is the conflict that’s generated when social expectations are at odds with individual aspirations and desires

Director Sudhir Mishra and actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who came together for the upcoming movie Serious Men, talk about the making of this poignant social satire, the on-going insider-outsider debate, and why cinema should not be treated merely as a business.

Migrant workers walking back to their villages from big cities has been one of the most striking images of the pandemic. Actor Manoj Bajpayee’s new evocative rap song Bambai Main Ka Ba attempts to capture the plight of these workers.

The fashion designer, 31, and the actor, 61, on how their mother-daughter dynamics play out in their fact-meets-fiction Netflix show

An ongoing online Theatre Film Theatre - A Festival of Shorts aims to create work for theatre practitioners and raise funds

Fahadh Faasil on his new production, why he feels rooted in Malayalam cinema, and suffering from self-doubts

As music composers Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa step into the 25th year of their collaboration, they bring together different genres for web series Bandish Bandits