In today's Weekend Wide Angle stories, Namrata Joshi writes on Bollywood hits and masses; Sankhayan Ghosh writes about the Bollywood album; Vishal Menon on Malayalam cinema and dubbing; Aseem Chhabra on women artistes dominating the Hollywood filmdom.
Hits and masses: the best of Bollywood
What will we remember the industry for in 2015? The Hindu looks back slightly tangentially…
>Read more »2015, the year of indie invasion
The experimental redefined the conventional as soundtracks pushed the envelope.
>Read more »When India looked down
Aided by better dubbing and subtitling, films from South India broke into the mainstream across the country in 2015.
>Read more »Women on top
Cate Blanchett can play just about anything, from Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator (2004) to a Bob Dylan persona in I’m Not There (2007) and Noldorin princess Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings series. But in Todd Haynes’s new film Carol, Blanchett tries something else — playing a sad lonely housewife who longs for a life with a younger woman (played by Rooney Mara).
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