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Watch: The Female Gaze: Redefining Cinema on the Global Stage

Filmmaker and actor Nandita Das, actor Shahana Goswami and director Jeo Baby discussed censorship and OTT platforms in the discussion titled “The Female Gaze: Redefining Cinema on the Global Stage” at The Hindu Huddle 2025 moderated by The Hindu’s Shilajit Mitra. Films that are being made in India now face three kinds of censorship, said […]

Watch: John Abraham charms in The Diplomat, The Royal Mess, and Poker Face returns

Watch: John Abraham charms in The Diplomat, The Royal Mess, and Poker Face returns | FOMO Fix This week on FOMO FIX, Sudhish Kamath shares a skill set with Charlie Cale as Poker Face returns.  Hype Check: Netflix’s The Royals claims to be a guilty pleasure — but is it just guilty of glorifying privilege […]

Watch: Looking back at Virat Kohli’s phenomenal Test career

Virat Kohli’s Test career highlights Virat Kohli’s Test career highlights | Video Credit: The Hindu On May 12, 2025, Virat Kohli announced he was retiring from Test cricket. Kohli’s departure comes just weeks before India’s tour of England which features five Tests. Kohli hadn’t been at his best in India’s last two series against New […]

Watch: Why Indie films feel stuck: Case study – The Disciple

Frequently Made Mistakes Episode 3 Frequently Made Mistakes Episode 3 – The Disciple | Video Credit: The Hindu Why do some indie and arthouse films feel like they’re going in circles? In this episode of Frequently Made Mistakes, filmmaker, screenwriter and film critic Sudhish Kamath unpacks one of the most common storytelling traps in modern cinema: […]

Watch: Finding purpose or losing the plot? | Retro, Four Seasons, Thunderbolts and more

FOMO Fix: Episode 6 Retro | Four Seasons | Thunderbolts | Rehearsal | Video Credit: The Hindu The day you find your purpose… or realise you’ve wasted 200 bucks on a bad movie. This week on FOMO Fix, I, Sudhish Kamath, help you navigate stories about people chasing meaning while the world burns around them. […]

Watch- How Hindi cinema changed after the pandemic: SRK, OTT, Box Office & more | Rolling Episode 1

Watch: How Hindi cinema changed after the pandemic: SRK, OTT, Box Office & more | Rolling Episode 1 In the first edition of Rolling, the new monthly podcast series on the latest trends in Hindi cinema, film critic and filmmaker Sudhish Kamath talks to Ranimol T.A. (producer and talent manager), Sethumadhavan N. (producer, distributor, and […]

Watch: How ‘balloon theatres’ are taking cinema to small towns

A new chapter in movie-watching has arrived in Bommidi, a small town in Tamil Nadu’s Dharmapuri district, with the launch of the state’s first Mobile Digital Movie Theatre (MDMT). Popularly referred to as the “balloon theatre,” this initiative by Picture Time brings the multiplex experience to smaller towns. Built using a fire and weather-resistant inflatable […]

Watch: Kesari 2, #1 Happy Family USA – Revisionism & Representation | FOMO Fix

Watch: Kesari 2, #1 Happy Family USA – Revisionism & Representation | FOMO Fix When does creative liberty cross the line into propaganda? On this week’s FOMO Fix, Sudhish Kamath dives into Bollywood’s obsession with rewriting history — and how filmmakers like Tarantino and Sorkin show a smarter, more honest way to do it. In […]

Watch: Is Andaz Apna Apna still relevant? | FOMO Fix

Watch: Is Andaz Apna Apna still relevant? | FOMO Fix Film critics and buddies Raja Sen and Sudhish Kamath take a nostalgic deep-dive into Andaz Apna Apna, the cult comedy classic re-releasing in cinemas this week. From crime master Gogo’s chaos to Salman’s scene-stealing comic timing, they debate whether the film still works today — or if it’s just a […]

Watch: Anant Mahadevan: Jyotiba and Savitribai Phule were the first couple of India

Anant Mahadevan interview for Phule | Video Credit: The Hindu ‘Phule’, the biopic on social reformers Jyotirao Govindrao Phule and Savitribai Phule, is set to release in theatres on April 25. It was originally supposed to release on April 11, but it has been delayed due to objections raised by the Brahmin community and not […]