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    For Anant Nag, Dadasaheb Phalke Award arrives wrapped in coincidence

    Legendary actor Anant Nag, known for his impressive work in Hindi and Kannada cinema, will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2024. (PTI Photo/Arun Sharma)(PTI09_16_2026_000203B)
    cities
    Updated on Sep 17, 2026 03:13 IST

    Hamlet to Bhumika: Benegal and Bombay’s theatre world

    With such backstage expertise acquired in Bombay’s English theatre of the 1960s, Benegal could direct his magnum opus, Bhumika (The Role). (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Updated on Dec 23, 2025 14:54 IST

    Ritwik Ghatak Birth Centenary: Cloud-capped star, auteur of Partition

    Ghatak knew every aspect of filmmaking, including camera operation and the optics, and was an accomplished actor both on stage and screen — his role as Neelkanth Bagchi in his last film Jukti Takko Aar Gappo is considered to be so pure and pristine. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Updated on Nov 1, 2025 16:28 IST

    In Gujarat, Gandhi lives on in stories, in craftsmen

    The political centre of Gujarat, Ahmedabad still retains visible Gandhian footprints in its various ashrams and institutions. (Shutterstock)
    opinion
    Updated on Oct 1, 2025 15:30 IST

    Filmistan Studio: Bollywood giants walked the floors of Mumbai’s iconic glory

    Mumbai, India - March 21, 2025: A view of Filmistan, a historic Indian film studio located in Goregaon, Mumbai, India, on Friday, March 21, 2025. (Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)
    mumbai news
    Updated on Jul 6, 2025 03:18 IST

    Reel life in the dark room of Emergency

    Playback singer Kishore Kumar was another artiste who fell out with the authorities during the Emergency. (HT Photo)
    opinion
    Updated on Jun 20, 2025 15:06 IST

    A poet with camera, and his cinema of humanism

    A poet with camera, and his cinema of humanism
    opinion
    Updated on May 2, 2025 16:01 IST

    Films as representations of history & social reform

    **EDS: TO GO WITH STORY** New Delhi: A poster of Netflix film 'Maharaj', starring Aamir Khan's son Junaid Khan. (PTI Photo)(PTI06_13_2024_000154B) (PTI)
    opinion
    Updated on Aug 16, 2024 15:56 IST

    In Guru Dutt’s life and art, frames of disenchantment

    Guru Dutt - HT Photo by SL Purohit.
    opinion
    Updated on Jul 6, 2024 16:00 IST

    The interconnected world of Vinoba, Ray and Saul Bellow

    30 November 1951 - Acharya Vinoba Bhave accompanied by his party arrives at Gandhi Ashram, Meerut from Kharkhoda at his prayer meeting Vinoba Bhave studying Bhoomidan Papers - HT Photo.
    opinion
    Updated on Jun 22, 2024 15:33 IST

    The Mahatma before Attenborough filmed ‘Gandhi’

    In 1931, Charlie Chaplin met Gandhi in London (London Express / Getty Images)
    opinion
    Updated on May 31, 2024 17:54 IST

    Circuitous churning of Benegal’s film Manthan

    Made at a budget of <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>10 lakh, Manthan was the first crowd funded Indian film. (HT Archive)
    opinion
    Updated on May 23, 2024 16:35 IST

    Kumar Shahani, a lingering luminosity

    Kumar Shahani in Kolkata just a couple of months prior to his sad demise, photographed by Basab Mullik
    opinion
    Updated on Mar 5, 2024 10:09 IST

    The untutored but versatile all-round scholar who guided many

    The untutored but versatile all-round scholar who guided many
    mumbai news
    Updated on Apr 6, 2023 19:13 IST

    Why Chhello Show is both transcendent and rooted

    Pan Nalin’s Chhello Show.&nbsp;
    opinion
    Updated on Sep 25, 2022 15:07 IST

    A weekend with Ingmar Bergman

    The Swedish film director with one of his favourite leading ladies and later partner, Liv Ullman.
    entertainment
    Updated on Mar 23, 2018 10:13 IST
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