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Shubhra Gupta

Shubhra Gupta

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Now in Chandigarh, a film festival with a fresh focus

Returning earlier this week from the first edition of the Cinévesture International Film Festival (CIFF) held in Chandigarh, I began thinking of that...

06.04.2024 30

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Shubhra Gupta

Another war, the one being waged in Palestine, simmered all through the evening, but with only one attendee making it a talking point

Finally, and ironically, an immutable law of physics — what goes up, comes down — didn’t kick in. Right from July 2023 when Christopher...

12.03.2024 10

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A pioneer of Indian New Wave cinema, his passing, at 83, brings with it a sense of an ending

It is October 2019, in the small Chinese city of Pingyao, Kumar Shahani’s first feature Maya Darpan is being screened as part of a film festival. To...

26.02.2024 20

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Shubhra Gupta

For filmmakers addressing Indian audiences still conflicted about sex and passion, any depiction of rawness can be a Herculean task

Coming of age is one of the most overused phrases attached to films featuring teenagers. It is perhaps the toughest subject to deal with in the...

03.02.2024 10

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Shubhra Gupta

The 2023 edition of the Mumbai film festival turned out to be solidly programmed

One of the films I was most eager to watch at the just-concluded Jio MAMI film festival (October 27-November 5) was Anand Patwardhan’s Vasudhaiva...

09.11.2023 10

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Shubhra Gupta

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