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  • Scroll Adda: How Varun Grover does political comedy in the Modi age

    Scroll Adda: How Varun Grover does political comedy in the Modi age

    Shoaib Daniyal Kritika Pant
    · Aug 29, 2025 · 06:00 pm
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    · Jun 07, 2022 · 04:43 pm
  • Sushant Singh coverage: Film industry being shown as ‘den of substance abuse’, says  Producers Guild

    Sushant Singh coverage: Film industry being shown as ‘den of substance abuse’, says Producers Guild

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    · Sep 04, 2020 · 07:44 pm
  • Movie theatres survived the Spanish flu in 1918. Can they survive the Covid-19 pandemic?

    Movie theatres survived the Spanish flu in 1918. Can they survive the Covid-19 pandemic?

    Matthew Jordan, The Conversation
    · Aug 28, 2020 · 09:30 pm
  • ‘Film industry provides livelihood to girls’: Choreographer Saroj Khan defends casting couch

    ‘Film industry provides livelihood to girls’: Choreographer Saroj Khan defends casting couch

    Scroll Staff
    · Apr 24, 2018 · 02:21 pm
  • Film director CV Rajendran dies in Chennai at 81

    Film director CV Rajendran dies in Chennai at 81

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    · Apr 01, 2018 · 01:10 pm
  • The popular use of primates in movies has increased their demand as pets, fuelling an illegal trade

    The popular use of primates in movies has increased their demand as pets, fuelling an illegal trade

    Lesley Elizabeth Craig, The Conversation
    · Mar 01, 2018 · 11:30 pm
  • Living the dream: A new generation of Central American filmmakers are lighting up the screen

    Living the dream: A new generation of Central American filmmakers are lighting up the screen

    J H Bográn
    · Jan 19, 2018 · 08:30 pm
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    ‘Actors becoming leaders is a disaster for my country,’ says Prakash Raj

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    · Nov 12, 2017 · 02:08 pm
  • In Hollywood, euphemisms such as the casting couch have been used to normalise abuse for too long

    In Hollywood, euphemisms such as the casting couch have been used to normalise abuse for too long

    Theresa Simpkin, The Conversation
    · Oct 19, 2017 · 09:15 am
  • This project at the Mumbai Film Festival is trying to help Indian books find their way to the screen

    This project at the Mumbai Film Festival is trying to help Indian books find their way to the screen

    Kanishka Gupta
    · Jul 13, 2017 · 08:30 am