Angelina Jolie’s new movie lifts the veil on a genocide marked by indifference and silence

‘First They Killed My Father’ is based on Loung Ung’s memoir of the Khmer Rouge’s reign of terror from 1975-79 in Cambodia.

Leshu Torchin, The Conversation

· 14 hours ago

The first ‘Julie’ that inspired several imitators in the Hindi erotic film genre

Starring Neha Dhupia as the eponymous heroine, ‘Julie’ was the story of a wronged woman choosing to become a prostitute.

Devarsi Ghosh

· Sep 17, 2017 · 08:15 am

A Billy Wilder double bill kind of Saturday: Revisiting ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘Fedora’

The celebrated American director’s films have twinned themes and a yearning for ‘the way movies used to be’.

Bubla Basu

· Sep 16, 2017 · 01:30 pm

‘Daddy’ and the broken moral compass of the Bollywood gangster biopic

The film about Arun Gawli proves that Bollywood’s imagination is greater than its ability to portray reality.

Nandini Ramnath

· Sep 13, 2017 · 09:15 am

Waist management in Hindi film songs is a science unto itself

The female ‘kamar’ has an array of unpredictable and mostly inexplicable effects on men in the movies.

Damini Kulkarni

· Aug 29, 2017 · 01:30 pm

Tamil noir classic ‘Andha Naal’ is more than the sum of its memes

S Balachander’s 1954 classic, starring Sivaji Ganesan as a murder victim, is an absorbing murder mystery with numerous suspects.

Nandini Ramnath

· Aug 23, 2017 · 01:30 pm

How production designers tackled the ickiest bits in ‘Toilet Ek Prem Katha’, ‘Delhi Belly’

Among the tricks to presenting toilets and human refuse on the screen: thermocol and vegetable gravy.

Sruthi Ganapathy Raman

· Aug 19, 2017 · 08:15 am

When a double role is simply not enough for movie stars

Five roles? Nine? A dozen? How much is enough?

Devarsi Ghosh

· Aug 17, 2017 · 01:30 pm

Nepotists or dynasts, the movies are better off without a sense of entitlement

Smugness comes easily to the supporters of nepotism, but it has infected the so-called outsiders too.

Nandini Ramnath

· Aug 10, 2017 · 01:30 pm

10 minutes of mayhem in ‘Atomic Blonde’ that appear to be a single take (and an Indian contribution)

The action sequence has an editing jump in the Indian release that was not intended by its filmmakers.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 09, 2017 · 08:15 am

True copy or heartfelt tribute? The unsolved mystery from Anurag Basu’s ‘Jagga Jasoos’

What are Shundi and Tiktiki? What is ‘Monk’ doing in the movie? And what’s with the Steven Spielberg references?

Devarsi Ghosh

· Aug 02, 2017 · 01:30 pm

What happens when tour guides in films need guidance themselves?

While facilitating the self-discovery of others, guides often succumb to existential crises themselves, as the movies ‘Raja Hindustani’ and ‘Fanaa’ prove.

Damini Kulkarni

· Jul 31, 2017 · 08:15 am