Malayalam film My Dear Kuttichathan was the first three-dimensional film to be released in India and one of the biggest money-spinners in the history of Indian cinema.
Magnum Video, one of the major video distributors of Bombay cinema was officially established in 1987. There were some deliberate confusions over its proprietors and real owners.
The censorship regulations were a subject of frequent discussion in film magazines between 1975 and 1977—a dark period in independent India’s history—sometimes as gossip or sarcasm, and sometimes as serious statements.
Journalist and critic Geeta Dayal suggests that disco music was very much part of the zeitgeist in the 1980s, with Bollywood film soundtracks chock-a-block with such songs.
In a pre-music video, pre-MTV age, reports of music release parties play a fascinating role in reconstructing the lost visual object.
Reports in film magazines in the 1980s voiced the continuous anxiety of what might become of “our film culture” if homewrecking and bigamy were normalised, and thus made respectable.
Born in 1932, Pati was a graduate of science and a cinematography diploma holder who became renowned for his experimental animation in films.
Gemma Scott explores the role of photographs in the Emergency that sought to mobilise women’s support for Indira Gandhi, her party and the state’s repressive measures, which were repeatedly justified as having been undertaken to protect the rights of “minorities” in the country.
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