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Dedicated to her art: The journey of Sandhya Shantaram
Continuing our series on women in cinema featuring actresses whom time forgot, we look at the career of Sandhya whose fealty and devotion to legendary actor-filmmaker V Shantaram was unmatched.
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Keeping the film culture alive: Filmmaker Sanjay Kak on Chalti Tasveerein
A much wider set of people is getting access to different kinds of cinema, says Kak, a member of the festival's advisory committee.
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Chalti Tasveerein: Unique film festival travelling through 7 states
The festival, which seeks to free films from conventional platforms so that they can reach out to all kinds of people, is currently in Gujarat.
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Too hot to handle: Remembering Kuldip Kaur, feisty actress from the 1940s
Celebrating women in cinema, we begin a series featuring actresses whom time has forgotten. The first is Kuldip Kaur, one of the early vamps in Hindi cinema.
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10 years of Jodhaa Akbar: Remembering Ashutosh Gowariker's film in the wake of Padmaavat
Both films are reimagined epic tales of love in a historical setting that stoked the ire of self-appointed custodians of history, religion and morality; yet both couldn’t be more different in their evocation of history and love.
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Remembering Chanda Kalrani – A life lived for dance
Chanda or Chandra Kala, as she was sometimes credited, died last week in Mumbai aged 78.
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Halla Bol is still a film for our times – 10th anniversary special
The issues raised in Rajkumar Santoshi's film remain as alive today as they were at the time of its release on 11 January 2008.
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Maheen Mirza: We need to bring back viewing of films as a community
The cinematographer said people have to have the agency to decide what they want to see and what they don’t, while speaking at the first Kazhcha Film Festival in Thiruvananthapuram in December 2017.
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KIFF 2017: The beginning of a festival by filmmakers for filmmakers
The success of the first edition should, one hopes, make other festivals ponder over the kind of cinema they are promoting.
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KIFF 2017: Story is driven now by market, not experience, says Pushpendra Singh
The filmmaker speaks about his influences for the film Ashwatthama and the oral tradition of storytelling, among other things.
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We will look for good films which are rejected: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan on future of KIFF
Cinestaan.com caught up with the filmmaker behind the Kazhcha Indie Film Festival who spoke about wrapping up and his plans for the future.
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KIFF 2017: Keep making films that cause trouble, say the Brothers Babusenan on censorship
Filmmaker Jiju Antony speaks of how archaic and absurd rules affect independent filmmakers who work with tiny budgets.
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KIFF 2017: 'Important to do what we can without worrying what we can achieve'
Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy, director of the much-loved A Billion Colour Story, speaks about his film and his hopes and fears for his own son.
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Lijo Jose Pellissery: KIFF is a space where independent films can reach much more easily
The filmmaker speaks about the space opened up by the Kazhcha Indie Film Festival in Kerala for young independent filmmakers.
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KIFF 2017: Severely exhausting to do marketing and sales, agree filmmakers
Filmmakers Lijo Jose Pellissery, Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, Jiju Antony, Pushpendra Singh, Padmakumar Narasimhamurthy, Miransha Naik, Maheen Mirza and actress Urmila Mahanta dicussed alternative forms of marketing indie films at 'Coffee Chat' during Kazhcha Indie Film Festival.
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KIFF 2017: The fringe's whole purpose is to become the mainstream, says Anand Gandhi
The filmmaker and VR evangelist explains why he is supporting the indie film festival and speaks of the world of possibilities open to young filmmakers.
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KIFF 2017: Nuances of sound, music and silence at the first Coffee Chat
Veteran sound designers T Krishnanunni and Harikumar Madhavan Nair speak of their work, experiences and changes in technology to gathered filmmakers and artistes at the Weavers' Village on Day 2 of the indie festival.
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KIFF 2017: Tribe of indie filmmakers begins 'corrective action'
Filmmaker Jiju Antony said the Kazhcha Indie Film Festival came into being because good films were being denied platforms at existing festivals.
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Adoor Gopalakrishnan: KIFF 2017 should not be seen as just protest
The veteran filmmaker speaks about the new Kazhcha Indie Film Festival and its importance for young independent filmmakers.
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Haanduk preview: Exploring the hidden aspects of life in a conflict
The film looks at the lives of family members of those who take a radical step and join an insurgency.