'People will connect with Paani'

Undeterred by the failure of Wounded The Bandit Queen, director Krishna Mishra has come up with his 2nd film, this time on the life & times of dacoit Nirbhay Singh Gujjar. Mishra tells Manjari Singh that the film's USP is that it has been shot ...

Phoolan Devi, India's notorious Bandit Queen, continues to live on in popular imagination. Rape victim and avenging angel, oppressor and oppressed, she finally won respectability, and a seat in Parliament, embraced Buddhism, before a barrage of ...

Shekhar Kapur’s movies have struck chord and left an indelible mark cross genres, for he is known to ave delivered films from his heart, writes S Nanda Kumar. Shekhar Kapur’s much discussed film Paani seems to be finally flowing forward.

He has been a jack and master of many trades. Shekhar Kapur started his career as an accountant, before switching over to films, directing commercial successes like Mr.India and critically-acclaimed biopics such as Bandit Queen and Elizabeth. He ...

A gangster film, needless to say, cannot be watched with one's family. Simply because you cannot imagine it without cuss words being uttered extensively. Take Shootout At Wadala (SAW ), for instance. The film had to be content with an 'A'' ...

Writing in the Times of India, Faizal Khan underlines the bitter truth behind those glossy red carpet pictures: Malyalam film director Shaji Karun's Swaham was the last Indian film to be selected for competition for the Palme d-Or… in 1994! Khan ...

Neecha Nagar (1946)Filmmaker Chetan Anand's debut film was a landmark as it became the first Indian film to gain international recognition, after it shared the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (Best Film) award at the first ever Cannes ...

Mumbai: National award-winning actress and costume designer Dolly Ahluwalia, who has styled Farhan Akhtar for Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's biopic on Milkha Singh, says it was a challenging job to trace the actor's looks for the on-screen journey of the ...

Do you remember the first film you ever saw? I was about three when my parents took me to watch Naya Zamana. I have vague memories of Dharmendra, Hema Malini and a wet dance. Share some screen images that have made an impact. One of the earliest ...