For decades, Hindi dominated India’s film industry — the largest in the world. Then some underdog filmmakers from the south released a movie that would change everything. By Vishal Menon “Pan Indian” ...

A surge in supernatural and mythology-driven films is reshaping India’s movie economy. From feminist ghosts to politicised ...

India produces more than a thousand films every year, and the Hindi film industry accounts for a major portion of that figure. With over 100 years of film history, Bollywood movies offer a variety of ...

Raja Sen is an Indian screenwriter, critic, and columnist. In India, cinema speaks many languages. “To have not seen the films of Satyajit Ray,” Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese director, once ...

The Hindi-language Mumbai-based film industry known as Bollywood has been the most visible part of the Indian film industry over the decades but that hegemony appears to be waning. In recent years, ...

An innocuously titled Hindi film, “Mrs,” which starkly depicts the typical Indian housewife’s grueling burden of domestic chores in a patriarchal home, has sparked heated debates on women’s rights and ...