New Theatres, a Kolkata based film studio, was one of the premier filmmaking institutions that promoted cinema as art and entertainment. The impact of New Theatres was a pan-Indian phenomenon. During the 1930s and the early 1940s, the company produced multi-lingual films which were popular all over the sub-continent. In fact, New Theatres nurtured the [...]

As film critic, I have noticed that filmmakers - directors, producers, stars, actors - most of them, do not take kindly to any kind of negative comment in reviews of their films. There was an article in the edit page of SCREEN on this recently. My question is - why? We live [...]