Namrata Joshi
FeaturesWhy are award-winning Indian documentaries struggling to find audiences at home?
While Indian documentaries are riding high at international festivals, at home filmmakers are struggling to connect them to cinemagoers.
Reviews‘The Adamant Girl’: Berlin Review
A road trip to a shaman forms the basis of Vinothraj PS’s follow-up to ‘Pebbles’
Reviews‘The World Is Family’: IDFA Review
Veteran documentarian Anand Patwardhan turns the camera on his own parents to reflect on India’s turbulent history
Reviews‘The Spark’: Busan Review
A filmmaker is out to wreak bloody revenge in this hybrid docu/drama set in the sacred Hindu city of Varanasi
Reviews‘The Stranger’: Busan Review
A young Bangladeshi boy struggles to connect with his largely absent father – and his true self – in this coming-of-age drama
FeaturesThe story behind Zarrar Kahn's Directors’ Fortnight title ‘In Flames’
Zarrar Kahn’s journey to premiering his debut feature In Flames in Directors’ Fortnight has traversed Pakistan, Canada and a series of international labs and markets.
Reviews‘Bheed’: Review
Anubhav Sinha’s black-and-white drama takes an unflinching look at India’s Covid-19 migration crisis
Reviews‘Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway’: Review
Rani Mukerji is a mother trying to reclaim her children in this Norway-set real-life drama
Reviews‘Joram’: Rotterdam Review
Devashish Makhija’s cat-and-mouse thriller is a race across India’s troubled interior
Reviews‘Pathaan’: Review
Bollywood emerges victorious from a troubled time with Shah Rukh Khan returning to the big screen as a Bond-like action hero
Reviews‘Dogs’ ('Kuttey’): Review
Bollywood’s first major release of the year falls short of expectations
Reviews‘Cirkus’: Review
Rohit Shetty’s extravagant take on ’The Comedy Of Errors’ is an exercise in excess
Reviews‘Last Film Show’: Review
Oscar-shortlisted, semi-autobiographical drama witnesses an impoverished Indian boy attempt to escape into cinema
Reviews‘Declaration’: Review
Mahesh Narayanan’s Netflix pick-up plays out in Delhi as a couple deals with the fallout from a sex tape
Reviews‘Amar Colony’: Tallinn Review
Feature debut from India plays out inside a crumbling building in the teeming city of Shimla
Reviews‘A Place Of Our Own’: Review
Indian drama from Bhopal grassroots group Ektara Collective follows two transgender women after they’re evicted from their home
Reviews‘Ram Setu’: Review
Amazon Prime’s first foray into Indian film production stars Akshay Kumar as a conflicted archaeologist
Reviews’The Legend Of Maula Jatt’: Review
Reportedly the most expensive Pakistani movie ever made, the ‘Maula Jat’ remake heads out into international markets