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Month: November 2019

The 1st International Film Festival of India, 1952

November 20, 2019November 21, 2019By Gautam Kaul Festival Circuit, IFFI 0 Comments

I missed the first International Film Festival of India, because I was too young to be allowed to see the festival films. There was a precondition that only ‘adults’ were allowed to see the programmes. I had to wait my time. The late Ms. Amita Malik, who was then a broadcaster in All India Radio […]

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Of cinema and women

November 20, 2019February 1, 2022By Muktha Feminist Theory 0 Comments

The influence of media on people is unexplainable. It starts from simple mundane things as buying a pen, but extends to extremes of life changing decision making and so on. When we speak of media it includes every aspect of it, beginning from the newspapers to the cyber world that we are in right now. […]

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IFFI at 50 — a reality check

November 20, 2019October 27, 2020By S Viswanath Festival Circuit 0 Comments

Weighed in by the baggage of Bollywood and chasing the chimera of star power to pull audiences to international film festival seems to have taken the sheen off IFFI, & Goa as a film destination is losing its ground.   “Being at a film festival reminds me of the power of film. The power that […]

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On the History and Importance of Film Festivals

November 20, 2019August 26, 2020By Anirban Lahiri Festival Circuit 1 Comments

In the Indian subcontinent, the tradition of film festivals goes back to 1952, when the first International Film Festival of India (IFFI) took place, in Mumbai. It gave birth to a new league of Indian filmmakers, such as the Bengali trio Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen, who would revolutionize Indian cinema, in the […]

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Editorial Board

Amit Khanna
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Rashmi Doraiswamy
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Saibal Chatterjee
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Rafique Baghdadi
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Ashameera Aiyappan
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Authors

  1. Aditya Modak
  2. Amartya Acharya
  3. Amborish
  4. Amitava Nag
  5. Amit Khanna
  6. Ananya Nandan
  7. Anirban Lahiri
  8. Aparajita Sinha
  9. Arnab K Middya
  10. Babu Subramanian
  11. Daniela Rogobete
  12. Darshana Goswami
  13. Dnyanesh Moghe
  14. Divya Mehta
  15. Devdutt Trivedi
  16. Dipsikha Bhagawati
  17. Gautam Kaul
  18. Joy Bimal Roy
  19. Kanika K. Arya
  20. Manoj Barpujari
  21. MK Raghavendra
  22. Monita Borgohain
  23. Mukhta Chand
  24. Oorvazi Irani
  25. Parthajit Baruah
  26. Premchand
  27. Priyanka Purthy
  28. Ratnottama Sengupta
  29. RK Bidur Singh
  30. Sathya Saran
  31. Saurabh Turakhia
  32. Sayantan Dutta
  33. S Viswanath
  34. Utpal Datta
  35. Vanessa Lien Bianci

Book Chapters

Preface — Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India by Amit Khanna


Understanding a twin subgenre: new- and mixed-gen cinema of Malayalam by Christopher Dalton

Editor

Christopher Dalton
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