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Brandon Ingram is an actor and author, based in Colombo. He has been working in theatre since 2006; 2020 marked his film debut as he played Arjie in Deepa Mehta's Funny Boy in a performance full of a gentle slow bloom. In our conversation with
Rehan Mudannayake is a Sri Lankan actor and director who made his mark as the charismatic and charming Shehan in Deepa Mehta's 2020 film Funny Boy. His suave, insouciantly confident presence in the film happens to be his first acting gig. He ta
In a brief chat, Bhaskar Hazarika lets us in on the various camera trickeries in Kothanodi, the hiccups of shooting a debut in Majuli, emphasizing his working solely in the interest of the story, keeping subtexts secondary. Among other things,
Don Palathara explains why he doesn't necessarily view his films, Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam and Everything is Cinema as companion pieces, how he ensured a fluidity of camera in sync with the car in the former and explored the ways in which
Ivan Ayr-directed film Milestone actor Lakshvir Saran talks to us about the workshops that gave him a clear idea of the director Ivan's perspective, decoding and inhabiting the lived-in experiences of the truck driving community, the gradual pr
Q talks about how 5 years of making his documentary Love In India were his definitive film school, encounters with Run Lola Run and Visitor Q changing his life and his discomfort with western storytelling mode. He elaborates on working in the l
Across a sprawling conversation, Aseem Chhabra enlists and elaborates on his favorite films from this year, sterling performances across film and series that riveted him, and also gives us a low-down of the films he got to watch at all the vi
Film critic Poulomi Das talks about being drawn by investigative journalism and culture reporting, how she tries to maintain an economy in her writing , emphasizes the importance of publications backing long form entertainment journalism and th
Over a telephonic conversation, Karma Takapa, director of Ralang Road , spoke to us about trying to break down the image of a beautiful hill town and shifting the perception of a place. He elaborates his desire to explore Sikkim beyond a visito
Kabir Singh Chowdhry, director of Mehsampur, explains his approach to filmmaking as that of an ethnographer. He talks about his constant discomfort with feeding off people's traumas for artistic purposes, insists on Mehsmapur being a foreword t
Mike McCahill had always wanted to be a journalist of some nature. He recalls being deeply influenced by the early independent cinema of Spike Lee, Tarantino and Linklater in the 90s, talks about the dangers of approaching the star rating as sh
For Abhiroop Basu, the primary challenge in Laali was to make something awkward believable and compelling. He insists on 'thehrav' being the cornerstone in making the short, talks about being drawn to time chronicles, the soullessness of contem
Megha Ramaswamy is a screenwriter, director and producer. She has written Bejoy Nambiar's Shaitan, directed two short films , the documentary on acid attack survivors Newborns and Bunny, an exploration of the many fears and fantasies of childho
Rohit Mittal, director of Autohead, spoke to us about his film being a product of the noise and chaos of Mumbai, investigating the truthfulness of documentary. He likes his camera to stay as intimate as possible to the actors, and he believes t
" In those fleeting moments (in a theatre, when everyone reacts with similar precision to a line of dialogue), you feel human, not alone, and you feel wondrously connected".Tanul Thakur combines fine eloquence with a rip roaring sense of humor
We got just some 20 minutes but her infectious enthusiasm was palpable throughout, and her sparkling congeniality laced our conversation. Film Companion founder and leading film critic Anupama Chopra talked to us about Indian film journalism ge
Arati kadav wanted the tech in Cargo to be endearing instead of being intimidating. She talked to us about her nostalgia for analog and retro sci fi, the particular joys of its inherent clumsiness . She spoke about staying determinedly passiona
Vint Chandrashekharan spoke to us about the journey from the idea of an anthology short to feature form Bodhi, the intensive research that went into it, carefully and sensitively straddling the issues the film treads, casting and production int
National Award winning film critic Saibal chatterjee spoke about that entry point into writing on film, how the film federations memberships opened up his world, his learnings from decades of staying the course in his profession, jury experienc
In this chat, Cat Sticks director Ronny Sen spoke how he's interested in the inherent capability of the image to breathe, on being labelled a crusader of addicts and being perceived as a Foucault-quoting psychiatry basher, working with the extr
We were delighted to be in conversation to be with few of the filmmakers whose shorts were selected in Indian competition and Animation at BISFF- Amyth Patkar (Black Label), Tathagata Ghosh (Miss Man), Tarun Jain ( Kaala), Aarti Bagdi (Free Fai
Devashish Makhija's cinema investigates and indicts vicious power structures, gender play, and speaks urgently, and uncompromisingly about the bleak realities of marginalisation and dispossession. He has made several terrific shorts including
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