It has been a while since Bengali cinema has been praised. Around this time last year, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap called contemporary Bengali cinema “ghatiya” (well-worn and shoddy). While it is ...

It was the year when two of his career’s most decisive films, Saeed Mirza’s Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai and Sai Paranjpye’s Sparsh, were released within months of each other.

The 1980 film 'Sparsh', starring Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah, celebrates 45 years of its impactful storytelling about two outcasts. Shabana Azmi reflects on the film’s freshness, its ...