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  • 24 guns salute: GraFTII pays tribute to KK Mahajan
    24 guns salute: GraFTII pays tribute to KK Mahajan

    Cinematographer, artist, mentor, friend... K. K. Mahajan passed away on July 13, 2007, leaving us with an irreparable void and a lot of very, very special memories. GraFTII members contributed these fond tributes...

     

    The year was 1980. It was a wet August...

  • Exploring the Popular Narrative

    Vinay Shukla (Film Direction, 1971) muses about the curious nature of popular Bollywood cinema and what makes it work in spite of itself

     

    Despite being a lover of Hindi films, I have often been dismayed by the kind of films which we are subjected to. As a...

  • Confessions of a Die Hard Fan

    Ramchandra P. N. (Film Direction, 1991) recalls what it was like growing up in the thrall of the legendary Kannada actor Dr. Rajkumar

     

    Like many others in this country, I too was appalled by the violence that shook the city of Bengaluru on the aftermath o...