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Indian Auteur authors attempt to present the state of film archive, film criticism and film festivals cum programming bodies in this country in this edition of our e-magazine. And Notes on Directors from Indian Cinema 2009-2010. [Read More]

IA celebrates the upcoming year with the introduction of novel ideas-  an annual IA Director’s Report Card, the restored Bande Designee – with Kamal Swaroop’s Omniyam in an illustrated form, and a photo essay from Bhopal. [Read More]

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Cover Story

Too much film criticism in India seeks comfort either in an existence on the margins, in a certain sense of romanticism attached to the bohemia of life on the fringes – but a film critic cannot afford to be elitist [Read More]

IA author Kshitiz travels to the city of Bhopal to document images for a proposed documentary on one of the most devastating disasters of the 21st century .  The images bring across a reality largely forgotten. [Read More]

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Interview

Indian Auteur talks to Tariq Tapa, the director of the much acclaimed independent film, Zero Bridge; as he elaborates on the method in the madness that is independent filmmaking. [Read More]

We have to understand that neither ‘film criticism’ nor ‘film theory’ ever had a pure place in the division of knowledges taught by most (or all) universities. In tertiary education, they were born – almost accidentally, but kicking [Read More]

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Auteur

As 2010 begins, the Indian Auteur team takes stock of the prevailing situation in Indian cinema by applying its own prism of judgment to the filmmaking industry, i.e. study of the flm director. [Read More]

IA has adopted the model of Francois Truffaut’s legendary tract, “French Cinema short of ambition”, which was published in Arts on 30th March, 1955; which is to facilitate a process of classification of directors. [Read More]

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