Critical Collective • 20th February 2025

A Camera Pictures Life In and Beyond Sudhir Patwardhan's Canvas

REVIEW: Director Harshil Bhanushali’s camera goes in search of the places and denizens of Bombay that inspired Patwardhan’s paintings

Critical Collective • 20th February 2025

Visualizing Kumar Gandharva's Restless, Meditative Musicality

REVIEW: Amit Dutta’s film Phool ka Chhand visualizes the ceaselessly improvisatory nature of Kumar Gandharva’s music

The People in Places Show • 15th January 2025

EPISODE 1 | The People in Places Show

Featuring Kannada film actor, writer and director Raj B Shetty in his hometown Mangalore. We meet people in places that inspire them and their work

Sunday Mid-Day • 17th November 2024

Break ke baad

FEATURE: A short film shot on 16-mm film and winner of two National Awards, is a nostalgic ode to Kannada cinema’s golden era

Sunday Mid-Day • 20th October 2024

Double trouble

INTERVIEW: The Do Patti team speaks to mid-day about their upcoming thriller, which will see Kajol playing a cop for the first time in her three-decade career

ASAP | art • 14th October 2024

Art in Delay, Hesitation as Film: Maisam Ali’s In Retreat

REVIEW: A languorous, melancholic and occasionally even guilty meditation on universal themes of belonging, freedom, home and acceptance

Sunday Mid-Day • 6th October 2024

‘She laid the foundation for a free pen’

TRIBUTE: Industry insiders and readers share memories of Femina’s longest serving editor, hailing the quiet revolution in women’s journalism she led

Sunday Mid-Day • 29th September 2024

Deeper into the black mirror

INTERVIEW: Vikramaditya Motwane and Ananya Panday discuss CTRL which explores the increasingly probable perils of a tech takeover

Kulfi Collective • 26th November 2024

The Rise of Gen Alpha

FEATURE: Diving into the beliefs and consumption behaviours of Generation Alpha as its oldest members come of age

Critical Collective • 23rd August 2024

Filming Fictions: Visual Culture in the Princely States

REVIEW: The exhibition Chitramahal highlighted alternative histories of film and photography in India and regional trysts with modernity

Sunday Mid-Day • 26th August 2024

Red Fort’s Bandwallahs in Worli

FEATURE: Tao Art Gallery celebrates the 100th year of Krishen Khanna, the last surviving progressive artist

Sunday Mid-Day • 11th August 2024

‘We need more politicians who read poetry, more poets to enter politics’

INTERVIEW: An openly gay man steps into mainstream Maharashtra politics and argues in favour of crafting an alternative political imagination

ASAP | art • 8th July 2024

Restoring Manthan: Cinephilia in the Age of Multiplexes

ESSAY: Like the restorations, the format of the multiplex itself seems to have been responsible for granting these films a second lease on life

Sunday Mid-Day • 16th June 2024

Trouble in Paradise?

INTERVIEW: Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage speaks to Sunday mid-day about his award-winning film geared for release next week

Sunday Mid-Day • 18th August 2024

‘Dev sahab was Goldie’s alter ego’

INTERVIEW: A new book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the kinship between Dev and Vijay Anand and their enduring contributions to Hindi cinema

Sunday Mid-Day • 16th June 2024

The language of Dalit food

FEATURE: The English translation of a prominent work on Dalit food adds new questions about Dalit experiences to food politics

Sunday Mid-Day • 5th May 2024

Out of a family archive

FEATURE: An actress and director's centenary has initiated efforts towards the restoration of her films

Sunday Mid-Day • 16th April 2024

Never let me go

FEATURE: Sheetal Mallar's new photobook and accompanying exhibition uses memory as a tool to explore the role of matrilineal bonds in shaping identity

Sunday Mid-Day • 11th February 2024

36 Memory Lane

INTERVIEW: Suman Ghosh takes Aparna Sen back to early film locations in a new documentary. mid-day gets together with the two filmmakers

Sunday Mid-Day • 21st January 2024

A family’s tryst with Lasya

FEATURE: An exhibition in Goa will showcase the life and work of renowned Manipuri dancer Nayana Jhaveri

Sunday Mid-Day • 9th May 2024

Off the old block

INTERVIEW: First-time novelist Tathagata Bhattacharya reflects on his literary inheritance

ASAP | art • 8th August 2024

Divergent Trails: Prasanna Vithanage's Paradise

REVIEW: In Paradise, one group’s ‘burning’ homeland becomes another’s idea of a cheap vacation

Sunday Mid-Day • 26th November 2023

From Bangladesh, with love

FEATURE: A British-Bangladeshi writer’s new cookbook steeped in nostalgia showcases seasonal and regional recipes

Critical Collective • 17th October 2023

Cigarettes, Scarves and Morality: Dev Anand’s Early Crime Films

ESSAY: In the year of Anand’s birth centenary celebrations, we revisit his noir films of the
1950s