Canonizing Indian Parallel Cinema – Part 1: The foundational years/developmental phase (1968 – 1974)
There is a general consensus that Indian Parallel Cinema officially started in 1969 with the triptych of Bhuvan Shome, Uski Roti and Sara Akash. In 1968 B.K. Karanjia, former editor … Continue reading
Mehboob’s AAN (1952) – Indian Cinema’s entry into Europe
This latest piece on Aan is part of an on going series of tentative writings and research on the films of Mehboob Khan – earlier posts have focused on Roti … Continue reading
OM PURI (1950 – 2017) The Cosmopolitan-Parallel Cinema Actor
The film career of Om Puri is worth more than East is East. But since East is East is the film that first introduced a new generation of film audiences … Continue reading
PINK (Dir. Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, 2016, India) – Gestural Cinema
Stylistically and structurally Pink is a fairly parochial work. Where it resonates is in the ideological mode of address, polemicizing contemporaneous gender politics in which the norms of gender behaviour … Continue reading
