Film Articles

Rattana Pestonji  was a Thai Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, his films...

'The Towers of Silence' explores the fundamental question faced by every small community, namely how to preserve one’s traditions in a rapidly changing and modernizing world. The film focuses on the...

Nosh Mistry points us to a fantastic video of his motorcycling trip in remote Zanskar in Ladakh, Kashmir, India. Nosh writes “…..About the trip itself, it was absolutely unplanned. I wanted to visit...

Legend has it that when the Parsis arrived on the shores of Gujarat sometime between the 8th and 10th century, they promised the local King Jadhav Rana that they would sweeten the Indian community...

DearCinema organized IndieTalk with renowned screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala on July 19 in Mumbai. This is what the writer of films like Salaam Bombay!, The Namesake and Mississippi Masala had to...

Unique to India, there is no other community like the Parsis. Divya Cowasji and Shilpi Gulati, postgraduates from TISS and documentary filmmakers, get the community to share their most sacred spaces...

A wonderful documentarty titled “Qissa-E-Parsi” is announced to the world with a lovely trailer. Divya Cowasji, co-director of the film writes: I am a documentary filmmaker and photographer based...

Written and Directed by Kaushal Oza, "Afterglow" is a tragi-comic piece about a Parsi widow who has just lost her husband and the condolence visitors who come in to offer their mock sympathy. It won...

Meet the 16-year-old ‘Issaq’ heroine, Amyra Dastur. Newbie Amyra Dastur makes her dream debut in ‘Issaq’! Catch her stills Author: Sonali Kumar Source: apunkachoice.com   She is the newest to...

Toronto-based filmmaker Yaz Rabadi's latest short film, The Beard, continues making rounds on the festival circuit well into 2013. The Beard is a powerful, gritty and emotional piece of filmmaking...

Sooni Taraporevala's film Little Zizou -- which can be watched for free these days on Hulu -- always makes me yearn for my first true love: Bombay. Because Little Zizou represents the perfect...

Max and Rohinton Unwalla see no reason for public display of affection to be tagged as nuisance. In one quick swoop, love meets devotion when Max’s candy tongue flutters across Unwalla’s face,...

Jamsheed Mistri, a sixth grader from Covington Elementary School in the Los Altos School District submitted the film below as part of a submission to the LASD Film Festival 2013 Deena Mistri Campus...

Oozing with confidence, this model-turned-actor is chirpy as ever. Jennifer Kotwal, who started her career as a model at the age of 15, has over the years gained a name for herself. By Uthra...

IBNLive.com has an interesting compilation of the Top Ten films portraying Parsis over the years. Check out the entire list here: http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/7194-3.html .: . . .

Curious to know who is responsible for making Shirin Fugawala look so authentically Parsi? Then here’s dope… By Latika Payak | Bollywoodlife.com When Farah Khan grudgingly said yes to Bela Sehgal’s...

We wonder if there’s a better character actor in the country than Boman Irani. Or if we may, there aren’t many better actors than him at all. The man has always defied odds to portray extensively...

Boman Irani, who plays a Parsi in his next, feels young filmmakers can finally break the cinematic stereotypes built around communities In conversation with Shakti Shetty | Mid-Day A proud Parsi,...

Indian cinema, having found its voice in silent reels, was still enjoying its burgeoning, hypnotic pull, when sound turned it on its head in the year 1931; in a stroke, its euphoric silence was...

Blessed with boyish good looks, this 32-year-old has some movies and TV roles to his credit, but he feels it's not enough. "The craving for good parts will always be there. Though my career s...