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Anupama Chopra is the editor and founder of Film Companion.

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Anupama Chopra muses on the wins and losses as the Toronto film festival goes virtual

Even with its digital screenings and shrunken line-up, TIFF felt like a minor miracle; a reminder that storytelling never stops.

With borders still closed, only local cinephiles could attend events such as the drive-in screenings held during the pandemic edition of the Toronto film festival.(tiff_NET/instagram)
Updated on Sep 20, 2020 10:49 AM IST
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Her life and her portfolio mark Kareena Kapoor out as a risk-taker

Anupama Chopra on Kareena Kapoor’s act of disruption

This year, Kareena Kapoor Khan turns 40. But she continues to be a diva and an in-demand showstopper at various fashion shows.(HT Photo)
Updated on Mar 07, 2020 09:46 PM IST
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Is modesty the secret to Telugu cinema’s bountiful success?: Anupama Chopra

Politeness, modesty, humility and reticence are recurring qualities among the this film fraternity from the south

Allu Arjun’s recent monster hit
Updated on Feb 23, 2020 07:57 PM IST
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In the new Bollywood love stories, the couples have no daunting opposition

Earlier obstacles: the angry dad, caste, class. Now: career, commitment phobia.

Sara Ali Khan and Kartik Aaryan in the 2020 version of Imtiaz Ali’s
Updated on Feb 07, 2020 05:00 PM IST
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I wish more people would let go creatively, as Saif is doing: Anupama Chopra

‘Amitabh Bachchan experienced a similar creative spring in the early years of the new millennium. But the women, even those not in the leading-lady rat race, aren’t cutting loose quite as much.’

A still from Kaalakaandi (2017). Like his character in the film, Saif Ali Khan is doing what he wants, regardless of the rules.
Published on Jan 24, 2020 05:19 PM IST
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The cult of Karan Johar

He doesn’t get enough credit for pushing the envelope in his films

Karan Johar at a party in Mumbai.(Yogen Shah)
Published on Nov 29, 2019 05:37 PM IST
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Film festivals open your head and ways of seeing the world, says Anupama Chopra

A festival insists that you watch films you would never have encountered otherwise.

General view of the red carpet opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival 2003.(Getty Images)
Updated on Nov 15, 2019 04:35 PM IST
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‘This is Amitabh...’ he said, Anupama Chopra shares her many memories of Big B

The megastar completes 50 years in Hindi cinema this month

For those who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, Amitabh Bachchan cut a colossus-like figure, towering over the movies.(HT PHOTO)
Updated on Nov 02, 2019 07:51 PM IST
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Playing against type

It’s a treat when actors let go of on-screen vanity for a film, says Anupama Chopra

Hrithik Roshan shed his macho image when he played a maths teacher in
Published on Oct 18, 2019 05:25 PM IST
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Blurring the lines: Anupama Chopra on movie scenes that move us

Cinema can sometimes echo your soul, be a friend and a guide

The mother-daughter scene in
Published on Oct 05, 2019 05:37 PM IST
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What can stars do, beyond shine? Actually, quite a lot, says Anupama Chopra

Some have begun to use their massive clout, online and off, for greater good.

Actor Hrithik Roshan’s feed has photographs of bonding vacations with his sons. Stars have become ‘intimate strangers’, more visible than ever before.
Published on Sep 21, 2019 10:11 PM IST
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A step out of line: Anupama Chopra on what’s wrong with ‘item songs’ today

Done right, these numbers are joyous. It’s time to rename them

‘Item songs’ work, when like Chaiyya chaiyya (Dil Se) they celebrate sensuality.
Published on Sep 07, 2019 07:51 PM IST
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Language no bar: Anupama Chopra on non-Hindi blockbusters

Surprise! The truly innovative cinema like Virus or Village Rockstars, Super Deluxe, Sairat, Kumbalangi Nights or the Baahubali franchise, is emerging from outside Mumbai.

The Malayalam film Virus is a superbly crafted medical thriller, one of several films shaking Bollywood’s hold over Indian audiences.
Published on Aug 24, 2019 06:17 PM IST
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My review, my choice:Anupama Chopra calls out Twitter trolls

Twitter trolls, on both sides of the political axis, need to stop looking for a conspiracy in every movie review, says Anupama Chopra.

Over the years, the trolling got so vicious that I trained myself not to look at mentions when big-budget, big star films hit the screens.
Published on Aug 10, 2019 06:10 PM IST
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Breaking the barriers of language in films

The borders between film industries in India have become more porous

Director Sandeep Reddy Vanga reworked his Telugu hit, Arjun Reddy
Updated on Jul 27, 2019 05:51 PM IST
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