Revisiting ‘Fauji,’ the Genesis of King Khan
Thirty years since Shah Rukh Khan’s silver screen debut, we reexamine the dreadful show with a star-making performance.
Siddhant Adlakha
Bhutan’s Long-Awaited Oscar Entry is Simple, But Sweet
Pawo Choyning Dorji’s “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” — about “the most remote school in the world” — asks us what it means to be happy.
Why India Loves ‘Friends’
How a 1994 show set in New York became — and remains — a beloved comfort watch on the other side of the world.
How a Nepali Drama Deconstructs Male Ego
Filmmaker Khyentse Norbu’s latest, “Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache,” captures a man’s journey through the chaotic rift between the spiritual and the modern.
The Best South Asian Films of 2020
In a year without theaters, films from the subcontinent and its diaspora still thrived.
DDLJ, the Film That Took Bollywood Global
The box office hit centered progress and tradition in the very same breath.
The Indian Films of the Decade
Indian cinema tends to be absent in most Western retrospectives — so we wrote our own.
Sholay Gets Its Streaming Moment
The Bollywood classic has long been relegated to cable and piracy. It’s now available on Amazon Prime — if anyone will watch.
South Asia’s Largest Queer Film Festival
Ten years on, KASHISH continues to bring the world of LGBTQIA cinema to India.
In Queens, the Bombay Theatre Persists
New York City’s last remaining Bollywood theater faces multiple threats: streaming, multiplexes, and changing demographics.
What is Ritesh Batra Nostalgic For?
The award-winning filmmaker behind The Lunchbox and Photograph discusses cooking, memories, and telling stories about a changing India.
The Trauma is in the Details: Hotel Mumbai and 26/11 on Film
From Hotel Mumbai to its predecessors, portrayals of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks rarely focus on brown lives and experiences — or get the details right.
Fighting to Make India's Cinemas Disability-Friendly
Though a national legislation requires businesses to be disability-friendly, few have complied ahead of its July deadline.
The Spitting Lyrics of ‘Gully Boy’
What a refreshing change, to see Bollywood lean on hip hop — and vice versa — in a way that feels so authentically Indian.
