Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kumar Shahani, one of the pioneers of India's arthouse parallel cinema movement, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Feb. 24 after a ...

NEW DELHI — India’s independent films are winning top awards at international festivals and appearing in theaters across the United States and Europe — just not in India itself. These highly acclaimed ...

Every second film in the West today is based on a book. Bollywood is busy remaking hits from South India, China, South Korea, or Hollywood.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tribute to veteran Marathi theatre legend Vijaya Mehta, who passed away at her residence at the age of 91. Remembered as one of the biggest names in Indian ...

Shyam Benegal, known as a pivotal figure in the Indian parallel cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 90. "He passed away at 6.38pm at Wockhardt Hospital Mumbai Central. He ...

Asia Society celebrates two distinct traditions of Indian cinema this summer with Parallel Days/Bollywood Nights; four weekends of films featuring beloved popular Hindi-language cinema alongside ...

Widely regarded as one of the leading voices of Indian parallel cinema, Kasaravalli has spent over four decades creating films that combine artistic excellence with deep social insight.

Kumar Shahani, one of the pioneers of India’s arthouse parallel cinema movement, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Feb. 24 after a period of illness. He was 83. Shahani studied screenwriting and ...