INDIAN FILM INSTITUTE

The Filmmaker had an old canon camera and a broken tripod.The movie was made with 0 budget.

Mumbai is the capital city of the State of Maharashtra where Indian Cinema was born with the first-ever film show at Watson's Hotel on 7 Jul

The Indian Film Industry requires professionals from all educational backgrounds and if you are really well educated, chances are you will s

The Lift Boy is a coming of age story of a 24-year-old vagabond who is forced to work at a posh building in Mumbai as a Lift Boy

Covid 19 has indeed killed thousands of people and industries worldwide, the film industry being one of them. It may not have hurt smaller c

It’s all about sound and images but that’s what Cinema is all about, isn’t it? ‘Choked, Paisa Bolta Hai’ by Anurag Kashyap is primarily abou

Basu Chatterjee almost single-handedly transformed ‘The Common Man’s’ tales into a genre. His cinema mostly was about ‘day to day life’, his

This is part two of the article. of Ready to produce a film, but don't know how to navigate the legal process? How many types of...

Ready to produce a film, but don't know how to navigate the legal process? How many types of agreements would you require while producing...

There are a lot of career options in Cinema.Today, a Screen Writer charges anything between Rs.5 lakhs to 50 lakhs and more for a film.

Making movies is a job of passion but at the same time its art and science that requires understanding of market, target audience, geography

The story by Akshat Ghildiyal, set in middle class Delhi’s Central Government quarters remains centre-stage while Priyamvada’s doting husban

Yashraj Films gets 50 per cent marks – for trying. Actually, that’s unfair. The same marks should be divided between performances, concept a

Saadat Hasan Manto was a writer far ahead of his times – at least 75 years ahead. But this measure is rather literal and I am saying this be

The well-known actor Victor Banerjee’s latest outing ‘The Answer’ gives plenty of food for thought – especially since he essays the role of 

Here is a genuinely funny film. The wise cracks are novel, treatment different and the genre ‘horror comedy’ (as its maker likes to define i

For a film which had the potential and possibly the vision of examining the very sensitive issue of ‘us’ and ‘them’ (read Hindus and Muslims

Dhulia, Gill and Sheirgill are back. ‘Thanks Gods’? Well, depends on how much you love the franchise. Sheirgill as Saheb a.k.a Vijay Pratap

Set in Udaipur, Dhadak tries to capture the local flavors in its use of the local dialect, Mewari. But it doesn’t capture caste divisions in

Let’s talk about the problematic part first. One of the places where Shaad Ali fails to deliver in Soorma is when Sandeep Singh - portrayed