A career that has unfolded over 4 decades, across 5 languages, and resulted in 28 films, Mani Ratnam’s filmography has been a shape-shifting force for Indian Cinema. Framed through the eyes of his cinematographers–Ravi K Chandran, Ravi Varman, Rajeev Menon,…
Picturing Life is a unique cinematic experience that brings Sudhir Patwardhan’s paintings to life. It explores the various aspects of the painter’s work by structuring the film around his journey as a painter in the city of Mumbai, oscillating between social…
G5A Cinema House, in collaboration with MUBI presents the Oscar®-nominated drama from Wim Wenders, who lends his humanist gaze to the inhabitants of his beloved Tokyo. Charged with a superb soundtrack of classic rock and pop, Perfect Days finds beauty and serenity in the most…
Nishtha Jain’s Farming the Revolution takes us to the heart of the massive year-long protests against the Indian government’s then newly enacted farm laws during the COVID lockdown. Over half a million protesters gathered – men and women from all generations, religions,…
Zende follows Madhukar Zende, an 82-year-old retired assistant commissioner of police in Mumbai, who famously captured serial killer Charles Sobhraj twice. Beyond this, his career spanned four decades, showcasing Zende’s eccentric yet effective methods, from parading underworld dons to quelling…
In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, moths are whispering something to us. In the dark of the night, two curious observers shine a light on this secret universe. Together, they are on an expedition to decode these nocturnal creatures in a…
An insomniac ex-police officer who operates secretly for the corrupt system, lives in different conditions and goes on a lookout for salvation. Premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Kennedy by Anurag Kashyap is a Hindi-language neo-noir thriller film. It stars Rahul Bhat and Sunny Leone in the lead…
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi abruptly proclaimed a “internal emergency” in June 1975, imprisoning her opponents and stifling the media. The largest democracy in the world endured a virtual dictatorship for 21 months. Vikramaditya Motwane’s Indi(r)a’s Emergency chronicles this dark…
Out beyond the rules of money, there is a world penned out of and for the love of books . This is the world of Seagull. Of the Book and Other Stories is a visual memoir celebrating the 40th…
Irrfan (1967-2020): A Retrospective Irrfan : the actor whose face penned a million stories! January’s Cinema House is a celebration and exploration of the actor’s malleable artistry –charted through three chapters: films of his early years, films that re-defined the…
In an increasingly hostile environment of escalating violence, discrimination, and disenfranchisement, Arbab explores what it is like being a part of a minority group in India. The film ebbs and flows between him looking outside in his surroundings, where a…
Yugantar Film Collective founded by Abha Bhaiya, Deepa Dhanraj, Meera Rao, and Navroze Contractor in 1980, Yugantar made four pioneering films. Working collaboratively with existing or ensuing women’s groups Yugantar forged novel filmmaking practices, and political vocabularies that still resonate…