A young woman strides confidently down the street. She holds herself with pride and purpose. Her headphones on, she snaps her fingers to an apparently catchy beat. She catches herself before executing a shimmie and turn. She is a Bollywood dancer somewhere in the world.
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Shyam Benegal
Lalit Mohan Joshi talks to the maestro  
Shyam Benegal’s leftist trilogy - Ankur (The Seedling, 1974), Nishant (Night’s End, 1975) and Manthan (The Churning, 1976) set the pace of the 1970s New Wave in Hindi Cinema. Although based on independent stories, these three films were thematically linked for voicing concern for India’s rural poor. Ankur [...]

By Chitra Sundaram
So, the election results are out in the world’s largest democracy: the “communists” are out; the Hindutva brigade is out; and dynastic rule may well be on the cards if the scion proves himself. For now, as the Bollywood number turned victory anthem of the Congress goes: Singh is King.
But up until last [...]

by  Sunayana Panda
The first thing to be said about Kali Theatre’s play “Zameen” is that it takes you straight to the heart of the real India. This in itself is something noteworthy because the general view that one gets of India from Britain is the Bollywood version where everything is clean, colour-coordinated and cute and [...]