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Indian parallel cinema

Indian Parallel Cinema: 70 Years of a Revolutionary Movement That Changed Indian Films Forever

India has always been vocal about its narratives, be it through music, dance, drama, and spectacular performance. However, in the 1950s,...
Artwistory
8 min read
Satyajit Ray poster

Satyajit Ray Graphic Designer: The Remarkable Story of 12 Design Years Before Cinema

“Ray’s sketching, graphic design and calligraphy merged seamlessly with his filmmaking — one discipline quietly fed the other for over a...
Artwistory
8 min read
Cinema is a bastard art form.

Cinema: The Most Beautiful Bastard the Arts Ever Made

If cinema were a person, it would be the lovechild of a photographer and a singer, raised by a playwright, fed...
Rahul Mondal
3 min read
Taare zameen Par ending scene

How Taare Zameen Par and Bajrangi Bhaijaan Share a Similar Powerful Visual of Redemption

Sometimes a singe frame talks more than words. But in this section of ‘let’s talk about the frame’ we try to...
Rahul Mondal
2 min read
The silent era and the rise of narrative storytelling

The Silent Era and the Rise of Narrative Storytelling

The history of cinema compared to any other art form is very short. It is not even 200 years old. And...
Artwistory
3 min read
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