Ishita Sengupta

The author spoke with indianexpress.com spotlighting her new book, the reason for using humour, and why she keeps going back to mythology

The teething problem of Ladies and Gentlemen is its failure to recognise the potential of its own format. Spread across eight episodes, almost 30 minutes each, the series plays out as three different films.

Although designed as a thriller, the big reveal in Dujone is predictable from the word go. That, however, is one of the lesser problems.

Much of Sach Kahun Toh’s easy charm resides in Neena Gupta’s wisdom while looking back, in excavating lessons in failing, and resistance to be a stereotype -- even as a rebel

The Blind Rabbit is a fascinating critique of power, uncovering its workings by laying bare its machinery. It shows that much like history, power repeats itself.

In Bela, Prantik Basu documents Members of the Manbhum Sramjibi Chhau Nritya Dal with a lived-in familiarity

In an exclusive conversation, Munaf Kapadia speaks about his relationship with food, his mother, and why he wants TBK to be more than a startup that survived the pandemic

Ebhabei Golpo Hok is a kind of film what makes you feel smart by being so dumb.

Friends: The Reunion: The carefully curated format -- a hybrid of recollection and preservation -- features people around the world professing their love for the sitcom with reasons

Watching a film about the ritualistic nature of grief feels more necessary now, during the pandemic

Tarikh review: Tarikh, starring Saswata Chatterjee and Raima Sen, which won the National Award for best screenplay in 2019, is a compelling portrait of urban relationships, using the threads of interpersonal misgivings and unrequited desires to craft an affecting tale of associations.

If Disciple feels more personal than most, it is because its preoccupations are more noble than what it appears. The question at the heart of this artistic expedition is not the need to achieve greatness but the reason for doing so

In a recent interview with indianexpress.com, Pattanaik spoke at length about his new book, what he seeks to achieve through it and if this will change the curriculum of civil services

The premise of songs being used to voice angst makes comparisons with Gully Boy inevitable. Tangra Blues, however, is not derived from Zoya Akhtar’s film

With A Teacher, Hannah Fidell (creator and director) is dissecting themes she had first explored in her 2013 film of the same name: grooming, unequal power dynamics, and abuse

In a year when isolation has been the only way of living and farewell the most common greeting, Nomadland comforts with its compassion.

In a recent interview with indianexpress.com, Parambrata Chatterjee spoke on the film, Soumitra Chatterjee's presence and if that sanitised the storytelling. He also addressed the video where he along with other artistes from the Bengali film industry did together.

Even though Pagglait is crafted as a tale of self-reckoning, Umesh Bist refrains from using personal loss as a pass to freedom from a possible self-erasing relationship

The true testament of Mohomaya's ludicrousness remains how it resists any sort of intellectual engagement. It is designed like some feverish artistic dream but unfolds like a limp nightmare.

Athiya Shetty, who is quite a regular on the ramp, was seen in a printed embroidered bomber jacket paired with a bustier and skirt. She spoke to indianexpress.com about her relationship with fashion, what she has learnt from such times and the tips she gives her father Suniel Shetty

The documentarians refuse to peddle ambiguities that have long shrouded the discourse. Instead, much like their previous works, make their stand known even though this time they are pitted against judicial absolution.

Karishma Dev Dube’s discomfiting Bittu is a counter-narrative to the crowded layout of newspapers; the New York-based filmmaker pulls out a thread of story from the stack of statistics, providing faces to facts. 

The seeming dysfunctionality of their marriage in Atul Mongia's twisted short serves as a critique of the functionality of marriages.

That there is little known about Hiralal Sen despite his decisive accomplishments makes Hiralal a course correction by default; a necessary historical intervention. But that is hardly enough.