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How an Indian Film Company is Positioning India as a Global Filmmaking Destination
An Exclusive Conversation with Kunal Srivastava, Producer & Founder, India Shoots
IFI Correspondent
Oct 156 min read


How I Made It: Trees Under the Sun (2019)
Trees Under the Sun (2019) is a story about a Dalit family and their experiences, struggling to survive and make ends meet. The film also...

Kriti Agarwal
Oct 28, 20214 min read


How I Made It: Remember Our Dance (2020)
Remember Our Dance (2020) is the storytelling of falling and betrayal of love and friendship. Most of the film takes place in a studio in...

Kriti Agarwal
Oct 14, 20214 min read


How I Made It: Profondo (2019)
Leonardo is a fifty-year-old photojournalist. A very reserved man, timid towards his neighbor and now disillusioned with life because of...

Kriti Agarwal
Sep 23, 20216 min read


How I Made It: Fire of Teak Flame Of Chinar (2020)
The film explores the friendship and love that develops between two people from different places of turmoil, who try to seek refugee in each other. The girl is from the persecuted Rohingya Tribe from Mayanmar who is now an Indian refugee. The boy hails from Kashmir, which has always remained a controversial and volatile territory in India. The story is about their experiences when they cross paths, the love that grows between them, and the possibility of a life together. The

Kriti Agarwal
Sep 9, 20214 min read


How I Made It: Where I Come From (2020)
“Where I Come From” is a story of unconditional love between a young girl Mambi and her broken widowed father who is a gambling addict....

Kriti Agarwal
Aug 14, 20214 min read


How I Made It: Non-Living (2021)
Alex and Natalia reside in an isolated rural house. They have achieved worldwide success as authors of children's stories, but everything...

Kriti Agarwal
Jul 24, 20214 min read


How I Made It: Avijatrik (The Wanderlust of Apu) (2020)
Avijatrik (The Wanderlust of Apu), scripted and directed by Subhrajit Mitra is the sequel to the classic “Apu Trilogy”, directed by the...
Utpal Datta
Jul 17, 20218 min read


How I Made It: Riyaz (2020)
Riyaz (2020) is a unique story of a visually impaired boy who falls in love with a middle-aged widow with exceptional music skills. He...

Kriti Agarwal
Jul 10, 20215 min read


How I Made It: White Flowers (2019)
White Flowers (2019) follows the story of a man who wakes up in a hotel room: he has a head injury and a gun, but he remembers nothing of...

Kriti Agarwal
Jul 3, 20213 min read


How I Made It: Parcel (2019)
Indrasis Acharya's Parcel (2019) is a multi-layered social story under a health system backdrop where nothing comes as explicit but a...

Kriti Agarwal
Jun 19, 20216 min read


How I Made It: Crisis (2021)
Kamlesh Acharya is an Engineer-MBA by qualification, a copywriter by profession, a film-maker by ramification, a writer by passion, a...

Kriti Agarwal
Jun 10, 20215 min read


How I made It: Kaneen (2018)
The guilt triggered by the happenings following an encounter with an abandoned infant makes the wife of a high-profile police officer...
Kunal Srivastava
May 29, 20214 min read


How I made It: B For Bundelkhand (2020)
B for Bundelkhand explores the challenges farmers in poorer areas of the world face. It is a universal fear of not being able to eat,...
Kunal Srivastava
May 22, 20214 min read


How I Made It: Hotel Paraiso (2019)
Hotel Paraiso (2019) is a coming-of-age story about family, first love and restoring self-esteem. When Guillermo, a pre-adolescent...

Kriti Agarwal
May 15, 20214 min read


How I Made It: Nobody Is Crazy (2019)
Nobody is Crazy (2019) is a story about a lonely teenager with OCD, Rafa, whose overwhelmed mother insists on getting him professional...

Kriti Agarwal
May 1, 20215 min read


How I Made It: Under The Trees (2020)
Under The Trees (2020) is a story about three lumberjacks - Paul, Kalle and Boris, who discover a mysterious briefcase deep in the...

Kriti Agarwal
Apr 20, 20213 min read


How I Made It: Musings of an Uninspired Artist (2020)
In the midst of the coronavirus-induced lockdown, an artist muses over his lack of inspiration. He is a filmmaker who writes film reviews...

Kriti Agarwal
Apr 14, 20215 min read


How I made it: Ranj (2020)
“Ranj” shows the struggles of a farmer’s son who involuntarily emigrates to Delhi to earn a living. Amanpreet, a young man from a village in
Indian Film Institute
Oct 25, 20206 min read


How I made it: Imago (2018)
Imago is a story about a girl, Namrata who is a shy, introverted teenage girl living in a small village with her mother and grandfather.
Divya Sharma
Oct 3, 20204 min read
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