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11 Powerful Women Characters In Indian Cinema That Show What Women Can Truly...
As PM Narendra Modi launches the #BetiBachaoBetiPadhao Yojna, we recollect some of the most powerful women characters from Indian cinema who showed what it was that educated and liberated women could...
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MY VIEW: Why I Believe The World’s Largest Indian Flag At Faridabad & Other...
In the MY VIEW section, we highlight some of the most pertinent and interesting letters and opinions sent to us by our readers. Have something to say? Write to us: contact@thebetterindia.com with “MY...
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MY VIEW: 6 Lessons of Life I Learned from Hindi Film ‘Dil Dhadakne Do’
In the MY VIEW section, we highlight some of the most pertinent and interesting letters and opinions sent to us by our readers. Have something to say? Write to us: contact@thebetterindia.com with “MY...
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MY VIEW: 5 Reasons Why You MUST Watch Marathi Film COURT
In the MY VIEW section, we highlight some of the most pertinent and interesting letters and opinions sent to us by our readers. Have something to say? Write to us: contact@thebetterindia.com with “MY...
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VIDEO: Watch 100 Years of Indian Cinema Come Alive in 200 Seconds of Sand Art
It was on May 3, 1913, when Dadasaheb Phalke – the father of Indian cinema, released the country’s first silent feature film named Raja Harishchandra. At the time, he probably never imagined that one...
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Bhagwan Dada: India’s First Dancing Superstar Who Was an Inspiration to...
Bhagwan Dada was the first dancing super star of Indian cinema. Here are some unknown facts about his tryst with stardom. Bhagwan Dada had the body of a wrestler and the jiggle of Ginger Rogers. He had...
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Remember That Haitian Girl Who Wrote About Racism in Bollywood? Here’s a...
Badey badey deshon mein… Bollywood is thriving in unexpected ways and at the unlikeliest of places. In distant countries, viewers treasure Bollywood’s love stories and family sagas. Fans who don’t...
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Meet Director Haobam Paban Kumar Whose Films About Manipur Are Showcased in...
In their unique way, movies are like windows to the world. Cinema allows us to visualise the world across time and space, and increasingly it imagines the possibility of what might lie beyond. “It is...
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53 Films in 6 Decades: A Look at Dadasaheb Phalke Award Winner K Viswanath’s...
Kasinathuni Viswanath, one of the most prolific directors in Indian cinema, has been conferred with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (for 2016), which is India’s highest award in cinema. With over 50 films...
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‘Kadvi Hawa’ Reveals One of India’s Bitterest Truths, Check It Out!
Climate change may still be in the realm of elite debating societies in the West, here in India is both very real, and killing off the humans under its shadow every effectively. And if climate change...
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Remembering V Shantaram: The Veteran Filmmaker Who Shaped the History of...
Today, marks the 116th birthday of one of the pioneering figures in Indian cinema. To pay tribute to this veteran Indian filmmaker’s life, Google celebrated V Shantaram’s life & legacy in the...
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India’s First Filmmaker Remains Forgotten. Do You Know His Story?
On July 7, 1896, the Lumiere Brothers (the famous French pioneers of motion pictures) showcased six films at Bombay’s Watson Hotel and India witnessed the birth of cinema. Seventeen years later,...
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More Like Padman: 7 Hindi Films That Broke the Silence on Social Taboos
“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest...
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Objection, My Lord: How Authentic Are the Court Dramas in Indian Cinemas?
Lazy Sunday afternoons in my childhood usually meant sitting with my family and watching a movie. I genuinely believe that one of the many elements that bring a lot of drama to movies are the tense...
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National Film Awards 2018: Newton Wins Big, Sridevi and Vinod Khanna Honoured
The 65th National Film Awards were announced in New Delhi today. Sridevi was posthumously adjudged as the Best Actor (Female) for her role in ‘Mom’. Rajkummar Rao’s ‘Newton’ also roped in several...
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Saw #Karwaan? These 5 Indian Films Showed Us How To Deal With Death Too
Starring Irrfan Khan, Dulquer Salmaan and Mithila Palkar, the film ‘Karwaan’ is indeed like a breath of fresh air despite revolving around a theme as serious as death. While Irrfan is undoubtedly one...
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Before There was IMAX, There Was The Single Screen: 8 Iconic Movie Halls in...
These structures stood out in our cities at one time. Decked with movie posters, the iconic single-screen theatres or talkies, are slowly disappearing from our country’s landscape. There was something...
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Dev Anand to Madhubala: How Ashok Kumar Gave India Some of Its Biggest Stars!
Kumudlal Ganguly was born in 1911 to a simple Bengali family in Bhagalpur in the Bengal Presidency of British India (now in Bihar). Kunjlal, his father, was a lawyer and wanted his eldest son to follow...
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Ode to a Legend: This Connection Between Mrinal Sen &‘Lagaan’ Will Surprise You
For Veteran Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen, the personal was always political. One of the forerunners of parallel cinema in India, Sen had the penchant for telling tales with a deep socio-political...
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RIP, Vijaya Mulay: The Brilliant Filmmaker Whose ‘Ek Chidiya, Anek Chidiya’...
Didi, agar hum ek ho jaye, toh bada kaam kar sakte hai?” “Haan haan, kyun nahi!” These lines from the song “Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya,” which retold the fable about a flock of birds escaping certain...
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