Shanmugam Studio/Wikimedia Images Director Adoor Gopalakrishnan will introduce four of his films at the Logan Center for the Arts. Considering how rarely Indian art cinema is exhibited in Chicago, the ...

ONE country alone made a staggering 2,336 feature films in 2016. Big budgets, showmanship and flair have made India’s film industry, Bollywood, a behemoth. Not only is Hollywood’s penetration less ...

Shyam Benegal, known as a pivotal figure in the Indian parallel cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 90. “He passed away at 6.38pm at Wockhardt Hospital Mumbai Central. He ...

Kumar Shahani, one of the pioneers of India’s arthouse parallel cinema movement, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Feb. 24 after a period of illness. He was 83. Shahani studied screenwriting and ...

Shivaramaiah Ramachandra Aithal, popularly known as S Ramachandra, was a key figure behind the parallel movement in Kannada cinema. Known as Ramu to most, he was highly respected and his excellence in ...

The late actress, Smita Patil's name will forever be associated with courage, grace, and authenticity. As one of the foremost stars of India’s parallel cinema movement, she created a space for women ...

Asia Society presents Parallel Days/Bollywood Nights; a summer-long celebration of popular and arthouse Indian cinema placed side-by-side. In Hindi with English subtitles. Ten years after his film ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

It’s time to revisit the films that changed the course of Hindi films... And OP Srivastava’s book allows us to do this at our own leisure, one film at a time. With the meticulous eye for detail that ...

The book features contributions from scholars, including Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Ranjani Mazumdar and Amrit Gangar, who analyse how cinema both reflected and contested authoritarian rule. Taken together, ...