Director-Actor Dream Teams We Would Like To See Turn Into Reality
Dibakar Banerjee and Shah Rukh Khan, Dileesh Pothan and Dhanush, Nagraj Manjule and Ranbir Kapoor, FC writers pick their dream director-actor pairings
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Which Indian Filmmaker Would Make The Perfect Pandemic Movie?
Who could tell a love story in the age of social distancing? Or a social drama on the dark times we’re living in?
Inside Love, Sex Aur Dhokha's Chilling Honour Killing Scene
Writer-director Dibakar Banerjee, casting director Atul Mongia and actor Anshuman Jha take us behind the scenes of this brutal climax
Anupama Chopra Recommends: Dibakar Banerjee’s Shanghai
Too few people saw it but Shanghai is a chilling excursion into the Indian polity. It’s a journey into the heart of darkness.
Dibakar Banerjee, Nandita Das, Anubhav Sinha, Nagraj Manjule And Vetri Maaran On What G...
In today’s polarizing times, we asked the Shanghai, Visaranai, Sairat, Manto and Article 15 filmmakers what it takes to keep making art that sparks a reaction
How The Monster In Dibakar Banerjee’s Ghost Stories Short Was Created
Writer-director Dibakar Banerjee, actor Gulshan Devaiah and the prosthetics team on coming up with the concept, crafting the suit and inhabiting the creature’s mindspace
My Favourite Film Decade: Bollywood in the 2000s
Stars reinvented themselves. Hindi cinema turned darker. And Dil Chahta Hai was made
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Dibakar Banerjee On How He Survived The Two-And-A-Half Years It Took Khosla Ka Ghosla T...
I realised that Khosla Ka Ghosla was my film school. Maybe it will never release, but this experience is invaluable, says the director
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No Matter Where You Reach On The Script, Cut 10 Pages: Dibakar Banerjee’s Advice ...
The Khosla Ka Ghosla and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy director says never go on set without doing workshops with actors and remain poker-faced about the things you’re excited about
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Sanjay Kapoor On Life After Lust Stories And Why Failure Never Made Him Bitter
The actor on surviving the crazy 90s and what it’s like to lead a life that’s deeply entrenched in Bollywood and yet be on the sidelines
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Kerala Animator On Clues You May Have Missed In The Opening Sequence Of Lust Stories
Pratheek Thomas, founder of Studio Kokaachi, tells us how each image is a nod to the stories by filmmakers Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar
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Just One Question: Dibakar Banerjee
We asked the acclaimed director what he’s learnt from the commercial underperformance of his 2015 film Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
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