One Friday in the autumn of 1905, Hiralal Sen took his cinematograph to the Calcutta Town Hall. For the previous eight years, he and his brother had carried the device all over Eastern India. It was ...

Netflix’s Modern Masters: S. S. Rajamouli debuted on August 2, 2024, giving the first-ever sneak peek into the influential career of one of Indian cinema’s most celebrated directors. Produced in ...

Welcome to Lucknow, India! This bustling city of 2.8 million people is a cultural hub in northern India with a rich history. In this documentary, we’re going to explore this impressive city’s ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In 2018, Vinay Shukla, an Indian documentary filmmaker, approached Ravish Kumar, a high-profile TV personality ...

India has banned a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly riots more than 20 years ago from being shown in the country, in a move critics decried as an ...

When the Oscar nominations for Best Documentary Feature were announced last year, a big underdog made the cut: Writing with Fire. The film lacked both a major U.S. distributor and streaming partner.

NEW DELHI — Days after India blocked a BBC documentary that examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role during 2002 anti-Muslim riots and banned people from sharing it online, authorities are ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

The Indian government has ordered YouTube and Twitter to take down videos and tweets about a BBC documentary that is critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India’s Ministry of Information and ...

Goa-based Film Bazaar, South Asia’s largest film market, will have a documentary-focused sister edition in Mumbai from June. The documentary component of the market will now be a full fledged Film ...

Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, weeks after the country banned a documentary from the British broadcaster that was critical of Prime Minister ...

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