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Filmmaker Srijit Mukherji Picks 40 Movies He Wants Everyone To See

Posted on May 26, 2020June 9, 2020
by Srijit Mukherji

My list contains some fairly unanimous classics, some contentious ones, some ordinary and possibly even some bad films. The only common thread running through them is they have entered my terrestrial screenplay at some point of time.

Paatal Lok Creator Sudip Sharma Interview Amazon Prime Video

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A Spoiler Interview With Paatal Lok Creator Sudip Sharma

Posted on May 20, 2020May 29, 2020
by Suchin Mehrotra

In a spoiler-filled discussion, Amazon Prime Video’s Paatal Lok-creator Sudip Sharma on the show’s powerful commentary, that hopeless ending, and the possibility of a second season.

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50 Horror Movies You Must Watch

Posted on May 20, 2020June 20, 2020
by Patrick Graham

From films about Nazi zombies and giant radioactive ants to classics like Psycho and The Shining – here’s what director Patrick Graham has picked for you

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How Paatal Lok got the Casting of its Transgender character right

Posted on May 19, 2020May 29, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

Casting Directors Abhishek Banerjee and Anmol Ahuja talk about making unusual choices in the Amazon Prime show, and why they changed a male character on paper to a female character on screen

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Filmmaker Abhishek Chaubey Picks 40 Movies He Wants Everyone To See

Posted on May 13, 2020June 9, 2020
by Team FC

The Udta Punjab and Sonchiriya director looks back at the films that have inspired him, right from Ram Gopal Varma to Satyajit Ray to foreign language cinema

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10 min

How Sound Professionals are Recording the Quietness of the Lockdown

Posted on April 26, 2020May 9, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

The absence of bustle during the pandemic has prompted these sound professionals to record the subtle, intimate sounds of cities

Lockdown Playlist Indian Movies We Have No Excuse To Not Watch Now

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Lockdown Playlist: Indian Movies We Have No Excuse To Not Watch Now

Posted on April 9, 2020May 13, 2020
by Team FC

From Vetrimaaran’s Visaranai to Vasan Bala’s Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota, here’s a list of gems from across the country which you should no longer put off watching

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The FC Film Club Awards 2020 Winners

Posted on March 17, 2020May 14, 2020
by Team FC

From Sonchiriya to Article 15, here are the list of winners of the second edition of Film Companion Film Club Awards as voted for by the fans.

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8 Upcoming Amazon Prime Video Streaming Shows To Look Forward To In 2020

Posted on January 20, 2020May 9, 2020
by Team FC

From Saif Ali Khan-starrer Dilli to Asif Kapadia’s The Last Hour, a look at Amazon Prime Vide’s upcoming slate of Indian original shows

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Anupama Chopra’s Top 5 Hindi Films Of 2019

Posted on December 22, 2019May 9, 2020
by Anupama Chopra

2019 films didn’t have the inventiveness we saw in the previous year, but a few movies like Gully Boy and Article 15 pushed the boundaries

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The 10 Best Hindi Film Performances of 2019

Posted on December 15, 2019May 9, 2020
by Rahul Desai

From Manoj Pahwa in Article 15 and Alia Bhatt in Gully Boy – the finest of performers have reiterated that acting is, in its most primal form, the art of reacting

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4 min

Where Are The Indian Action Directors?

Posted on May 7, 2019May 11, 2020
by Suchin Mehrotra

The majority of Hindi action films since 2017 have had foreign action directors. So much so that opting for a foreign action director seems to have become almost a default choice for mainstream cinema

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Download The Script Of Sonchiriya

Posted on April 23, 2019July 18, 2020
by Team FC

Described by the director as a film about “daakus with existential crisis,” Sonchiriya plays out like a chase movie while also dealing with issues such as caste

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Focus Group Screenings: Whose Cut Is It Anyway?

Posted on April 1, 2019May 7, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

Test screenings – that employ state of the art market research methods – are fast becoming a part of the commercial Hindi filmmaking process. Studios seem to want it. But directors, not so much

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‘The Only Thing That Hurts Is Not Having Good Work’: Ranvir Shorey

Posted on March 12, 2019May 11, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

The actor broods on why good offers in mainstream Hindi cinema have stopped coming to him

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Why You (May Have) Ended Up Watching The Hindi-dubbed Version Of Sonchiriya

Posted on March 9, 2019May 11, 2020
by Sankhayan Ghosh

Abhishek Chaubey’s film, about a band of dacoits in seventies Chambal, has its characters speak in authentic Bundelkhandi. Ankur Khanna, the Associate Producer, explains what went wrong