The Film Sufi

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) was a big hit both inside India and internationally.  Released in India under the title Lagaan ...

The story of A Star is Born is a classic Hollywood fable that has been retold several times and never fails to charm its audiences.  It ...

Robert Altman’s masterful Nashville (1975) is generally considered to be his finest work, but the film’s diffuse narrative structure ma...

The Sound of Music (1965) was a culminating film of Hollywood’s Golden Age of musicals and still stands as one of the most popular films...

Outstanding cultural works are popularly assumed to be always the products of some creative genius, an auteur who somehow masterminded th...

West Side Story , a musical stage play that recast William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet into a contemporary setting, was a big...