Articles by Sanjukta Sharma
Bleeding vaginas don’t need bleeding hearts
The CJI’s view on menstrual leave rings true. After all, aren’t we that ancient civilisation that equates the female biological system with impurity, shame?
Published on Jul 15, 2024 08:00 AM IST
In Mumu Shelley, a heartwarming tale of finding connections in unexpected places
How two women, worlds and ages apart from each other, hang out on a night they are forced to spend together in this funny, absurdist tale
Published on Jul 01, 2024 08:00 AM IST
Short Stream | In Son of the Soil, who is a native, and who is a foreigner?
Akanshya Bhagabati’s award-winning film on immigration, land rights and the sense of belonging is set in rural Assam
Published on Jun 01, 2024 05:37 PM IST
In Teen Adhyay, the birds' flight brings a contemplative approach to the pandemi
Subhash Sahoo’s documentary on the interplay of the natural and human world during the pandemic is an atmospheric chronicle that leaves a lot to interpretation
Published on May 03, 2024 08:30 AM IST
Chintu, a young boy living with HIV, is saved by unlikely heroes
Director Tushar Tyagi covers a wide canvas in this tear-jerker of a film, but its greatest strength lies in the way it conveys emotions with minimal dialogue
Published on Apr 02, 2024 12:49 AM IST
Kangana Ranaut: The unapologetic outsider in Bollywood
The actress’s outspokenness has proved to be her biggest asset and her Achilles heel in the film industry. How she makes use of her strengths remains to be seen
Published on Mar 26, 2024 06:32 PM IST
The many worlds of Elk
A new biography by Ebrahim Alkazi’s daughter Amal Allana is a sharp spotlight on the father of modern Indian theatre
Published on Mar 16, 2024 04:23 PM IST
In Chithi, the past is not rose-tinted, but harks to stranger times
The short indie Bengali film with English subtitles is more than about personal memory. In it, the protagonist grapples with ageing, loneliness and past trauma
![In its short running length, Chithi, [Bengali for letter] is able to portray an expansiveness of emotions(Author)](https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2024/03/01/148x111/Chithi_Still_1709326801405_1709326906975.jpg "In its short running length, Chithi, [Bengali for letter] is able to portray an expansiveness of emotions(Author)")
Updated on Apr 01, 2024 12:39 PM IST
In Binnu ka Sapna, an Indian man comes face to face with his toxic masculinity
Kanu Behl’s award-winning short film is a meditation on the lessons men learn as children watching their angry fathers and placatory mothers.
Updated on Jan 17, 2024 11:44 PM IST
When Ram appeared before us all
How Ramanand Sagar’s 1980s morality drama transformed television consumption in India—and the nation’s imagination of the age-old revered Hindu epic
Published on Jan 12, 2024 09:54 PM IST
Short Stream | In ‘Shera’, two boys set out to fulfil a small, wild dream
The film is an ode to Kumaon’s gritty residents, leopards included. Migration threatens to end a friendship, the wild helps to cement it in Arun Fulara’s short
Updated on Jan 14, 2024 12:25 PM IST
50 years of Shyam Benegal
As he completes five decades in cinema next year, a look at Shyam Benegal's incomparable oeuvre
Published on Nov 28, 2023 08:30 AM IST
'This could be a Serbian new wave brewing'
A world cinema gem by a young Serbian filmmaker, Nina Ognjanović, was recently shown in Mumbai. An interview with the director
Published on Nov 08, 2023 06:34 PM IST
LEGACY | Dariush Mehrjui: The slain pioneer
The murdered Iranian director inspired a generation of filmmakers and taught us that all cinema is political
Published on Nov 01, 2023 03:34 PM IST
Conditions are ripe for climapocalypse or cli-fi films
A slew of recent shows and films show the way for climate change fiction—India’s entry to Oscars 2024 is a case in point; Martin Scorcese’s new film is another
Published on Oct 21, 2023 08:27 PM IST
Why are Bollywood screenwriters still so miserable?
Hollywood screenwriters are on strike seeking better wages. Back home, a recent Delhi HC order on intellectual property rights points to a longstanding issue
Published on Jun 30, 2023 10:59 PM IST
Prithvi Theatre marks 40 years with a retelling of Prithviraj Kapoor’s plays
The festival will open with Sunil Shanbag’s reinterpretation of Kapoor’s Deewar, written in 1945.
Updated on Nov 04, 2018 01:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjukta Sharma
What the first foreign show of the Progressives says about Indian art now
Curator Zehra Jumabhoy talks about the tradition-shattering group and what led to the exhibition
Updated on Oct 06, 2018 09:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjukta Sharma
From Satya to Sacred Games: The agony and ecstasy of seeing Mumbai on screen
As the web series based on Vikram Chandra’s novel premieres on Netflix, a look at how differently the city of its birth has been reflected in cinema through the years.
Updated on Jul 08, 2018 10:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjukta Sharma
25 years of Jurassic Park: Giant reptiles that walk on the screen
In 1993, Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster film Jurassic Park showed dinosaurs as terrifying predators. The sequels became more about saving the wild, but the franchise continues to rake it in
Updated on Jun 24, 2018 07:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjukta Sharma
To Titanic, the most Bollywood Hollywood movie ever made
The film is 20 years old, the ship is still at the bottom of the sea. So why can we still not let go of James Cameron’s epic?
Updated on Dec 24, 2017 10:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Sanjukta Sharma
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha has nothing lofty but is unapologetically patriotic
The patriotism in Toilet: Ek Prem Katha is primarily furthering one of the most widely publicised social change campaigns of the government, even as the rural hero exposes some of the pitfalls of the scheme
Published on Aug 11, 2017 11:20 AM IST
Sanjukta Sharma
Should the CBFC be made powerless? Will that stop Indians from taking offence?
Offence is our historical burden, an inherited right, which constitutionally elected governments over 70 years have protected and encouraged. It does not matter which political party we belong to or which side of the ideological axis we tilt towards.
Updated on Jul 20, 2017 07:21 PM IST
Sanjukta Sharma
Women can’t ask for condoms, no to ‘intercourse’: What’s wrong with censor board
Cinema is always the soft target. Censorship is an old gag in India; under this BJP regime, voices against it are louder than ever before. No sensible mind in the government would likely find any artistic or cerebral match in the CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani, director of asinine Bollywood films in the 1970s and 1980s
Updated on Jul 03, 2017 01:09 PM IST
Sanjukta Sharma
Poll register
Of the 900 political parties registered with the Election Commission, some small, fringe parties stand out. Here are five that made us sit up and take note
Updated on Apr 07, 2009 09:46 PM IST
None | Sanjukta Sharma and Seema Chowdhry
The new political Indian
Urban-centric parties, 20-something party workers, management principles in campaign strategies -- a movement gathers in the periphery to redeem the meaning of Indian politics
Updated on Apr 07, 2009 05:07 PM IST
None | Sanjukta Sharma
Madonna guru to serve city Hot Yoga
Now 56-year-old Choudhury believes India is ready to embrace his multi-million dollar enterprise, reports Sanjukta Sharma.
Published on Jan 11, 2007 04:21 AM IST
None | Sanjukta Sharma, Mumbai
