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Home truths: Bafta-nominated director of Boong discusses her tale about Manipur

Since 2023, when the film was made, members of her crew, including her 12-year-old lead actor’s family, have had to move to relief camps, Devi says. (Getty Images for IMDb)

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 14, 2026 12:46 pm IST

I wanted to follow the facts: Sriram Raghavan discusses his war film Ikkis

(Photo: Yogen Shah)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 17, 2026 05:01 pm IST

Magic gone wild: Filmmaker Raam Reddy on his film Jugnuma

“I wanted to tell a story that was driven by poetic suspense,” says Raam Reddy, 36 about his latest feature, Jugnuma, that premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. (.)

Art and Culture

Updated on Sept 20, 2025 02:28 pm IST

Gabbar Singh!!!: Wknd celebrates the timeless classic Sholay

(HT Imaging: Shubham KR Vats)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 08, 2025 07:06 pm IST

Surrealism stretches out: A day at the Dali museum in Spain

The museum is housed in a crimson building studded with pa de crostons (a local Catalan bread that Dali loved) made of yellow concrete, and topped with giant, white concrete eggs. (Getty Images)

Art and Culture

Updated on Jan 10, 2025 04:50 pm IST

The legend lives on: The essential Raj Kapoor watchlist

Did you know: Awaara, released in Russia in 1954 (three years after its India release), was the year’s biggest hit in that country.

Art and Culture

Updated on Dec 06, 2024 07:11 pm IST

The wonder years: A tribute to the legendary Raj Kapoor, in his centenary year

Read on to see how Raj Kapoor’s films lit up screens in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean; how snatches are reappearing in films made today. (HT Archives)

Art and Culture

Published on Dec 06, 2024 06:55 pm IST

Cut to fit: A Wknd interview with Emmy-nominated film editor Varun Viswanath

(Getty Images for Universal Pictures)

Art and Culture

Updated on Aug 02, 2024 04:18 pm IST

‘All India Rank tells a personal story’: A Wknd interview with Varun Grover

All India Rank, now streaming on Netflix, follows 17-year-old Vivek Singh (Bodhisattva Sharma) as he discovers that he isn’t remotely equipped to chase the IIT dream that he was raised to pursue.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 17, 2024 02:34 pm IST

Breaking character: A Wknd interview with theatre director Feroz Abbas Khan

'It would, in some ways, be easier for me to do another big production, to do more of that kind of work. But to make the complex accessible is what makes me the happiest,' Khan says.

Art and Culture

Updated on May 04, 2024 03:57 pm IST

It’s alive! The making and remaking of ‘monster’

Emma Stone as Bella Baxter in Poor Things, the Oscar-winning 2023 feminist retelling.

Art and Culture

Updated on Apr 05, 2024 08:25 pm IST

Paws and play: An animated short about seniors, with a twist

Old Age Home follows different characters as they talk about their lives. The twist emerges at the end: the residents aren’t people, they are dogs at a shelter. (Image courtesy Bakarmax)

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 23, 2024 05:41 pm IST

‘I have a lot of respect for Ray, but am tired of stereotypes of Indian poverty’

(Photo by Mihir Malla for HT)

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 22, 2024 06:32 pm IST

I’m a greedy actor: Nimisha Sajayan of Poacher (and The Great Indian Kitchen)

Sajayan plays the lead role in Poacher, of a fierce forest officer driven by anger and by the assumed guilt of knowing that her late father was a prolific poacher too.

Art and Culture

Updated on Mar 09, 2024 06:39 pm IST

A TV star who became the voice of consumers

Chaudhry remains best known as Lalita ji of the Surf ads that aired from 1984 on. (HT Archive)

Updated on Feb 17, 2024 06:00 am IST

Stardom is not a goal for me: Kani Kusruti of Girls Will Be Girls

The actor picked her own last name. Kusruti is Malayalam for Mischievous. Though it doesn’t show in her filmography, she yearns to do comedy, she says. (Photo by Anand Gandhi)

Art and Culture

Updated on Feb 12, 2024 12:04 pm IST

Remember Bombay Boys? Rewind 25 years with the OG Mumbhai gang

Bombay Boys, a tale story of three expat boys in Mumbai was a sleeper hit 25 years ago.

Updated on Dec 15, 2023 04:12 pm IST

Son spots: On Mrinal Sen as friend, father, filmmaker

Kunal Sen with his parents and wife Nisha Sen.

Updated on Oct 27, 2023 09:15 pm IST

Get to know... Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju

Doctor-actor Trinetra Haldar has been listening to Cigarette After Sex’s Apocalypse.

Updated on Aug 25, 2023 06:45 pm IST

Mommy issues: Meet the unique new voice in stand-up, Zarna Garg

In her comedy, Garg questions why brown women must laugh in secret. Why the archetypal mother-in-law is so awful. She jokes about her kids, her two cultures (Indian and American), her inability to not parent. ‘I don’t think I’m funny. I’m just honest,’ she says.

Updated on Aug 05, 2023 11:28 pm IST

Shekhar Kapur on fear, films and ‘taking the scenic route’: A Wknd interview

(Getty Images)

Updated on Jul 27, 2023 04:43 pm IST

Plate tectonics: A Wknd interview with restaurateur Niyati Rao

‘Decades ago, someone came up with the idea of frying little puris and filling them up with spicy water. That’s how we got pani puri. I don’t want to give the world a new version of pani puri but maybe create something that a century from now could be perceived in the same way,’ says Rao. (HT Archives)

Updated on Aug 11, 2023 08:57 pm IST

I knew Kapil Sharma had it in him: Filmmaker Nandita Das, on Zwigato

Sharma as Manas, a laid off factory-floor manager who finds his life unsettled further after he joins the gig economy. The film is now in theatres. It’s a tale about man and the algorithm, Das says.

Updated on Aug 12, 2023 03:35 pm IST

The hidden agenda: A masked trail from Zorro to Watchmen

(Left to right) Antonio Banderas in The Mask of Zorro (1998). The character Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th (1980). Christian Bale as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises (2012). V, an anar-chist freed-om fighter, wears the Guy Fawkes-inspired mask in V for Vendetta (2005).

Updated on Aug 04, 2023 04:53 pm IST

A watershed moment for Indian documentaries

All That Breathes (a still in photo) and The Elephant Whisperers have made their mark on the global stage, for their country and their craft, proving that small is indeed beautiful (PTI)

Updated on Jan 27, 2023 07:11 am IST

Up to the tusk: A Wknd interview with the maker of The Elephant Whisperers

Gonsalves spent 18 months just building a bond with the little family, so that they would be comfortable around her. The result is a wealth of endearing, candid moments. In one such moment, during bath time, Bomman asks Raghu, ‘Who’s the best elephant?’

Updated on Aug 04, 2023 12:16 am IST

Breaking the sound barrier: A Wknd interview with RRR’s MM Keeravani

(HT Illustration: Mohit Suneja)

Updated on Jul 24, 2023 02:54 pm IST

Matinee to OTT: Big B, star for all ages, turns 80

(Getty Images)

Updated on Oct 12, 2022 02:37 pm IST

Jaggi: A Punjabi film lifts the veil on sexual violence against men

Ramnish Chaudhary (centre) plays Jaggi, a teen who is repeatedly raped, beaten and ridiculed. ‘It happens and we don’t talk about it,’ says filmmaker Anmol Sidhu.

Updated on Jul 01, 2022 10:38 pm IST

The rise of the Indian undead

Stills from the Telugu film Zombie Reddy (2021), the Bengali Zombie-sthaan (2019) and Dibakar Banerjee’s short in the Hindi anthology Ghost Stories (2020).

Updated on Jun 18, 2022 08:01 pm IST

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