E-CineIndia (January-March 2026)
E-CineIndia
Vol. XXIX
ISSN: 2582-2500
Jan – Mar 2026
Editor:
Premendra Mazumder
Editorial Board:
MK Raghavendra
N Vidyashankar (Kannada)
Meena Karnik (Marathi)
Manoj Barpujari (Assamese)
G P Ramachandran (Malayalam)
OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY THE AUTHORS ARE THEIR OWN, AND E-CINEINDIA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT
Tribute to Guru Dutt
1. Milind Damle: Guru, We Wanted You More…!
Article
2. Martin Botha: The Preservation and Restoration of South African Cinema: A Personal Perspective
3. Shoma A. Chatterji: An Evolving Calcutta in Satyajit Ray’s Films
4. Pranjal Borah: Cinema in a Fractured World: Film Language and Aesthetics in Ritwik Ghatak’s Cinema of Exile and Partition
5. Ujjal Chakraborty: ‘Hukumdar’! ‘Hukumdar’!
6. Sudeshna Goswami: The White Outline of Light: A Sign of Liberation
7. Aparajita Pujari: The Quiet Spring of Love: Raga Marva at IFFK
8. Meghachandra Kongbam: Beyond The Thumb – The Role of a Film Critic: A Gatekeeper, An Influencer or Something Else: A Report
9. Tanvi Vyas: The Aesthetics of Dissonance: Audio-Visual Irony and the Subaltern Lament in the Cinema of Meena Kumari
10. Jahnvi Borgohain: Why Must Beauty Always Save the Beast?
11. Latha Rajasekar: Imagi(ni)ng Nine Decades of MGR Movies
12. Chandrakant Kamble: Changing the Portrayal of Transgender Protagonists in Indian Cinema
13. Shivika Sharma: The Man Who Gave Indian Cinema It’s Conscience
14. Srijani Dutta: Aamir Khan as the Figure of Rebellion, Resistance and Satire: Reading the Representation of Youth in 3 Idiots
Critique
15. Ankan Rajkumar: The Chicken Vendor Who Became a Bike: The Bizarre, Subterranean World of Kok Kok Kokoook
16. Minakshi Dutta: Songs of Forgotten Trees: Desire, Detachment, Burden and More
17. Latika Padgaonkar: Murders Too Close, Love Too Far
18. Meena Karnik: No Mercy: The Fierce Lens of Female Directors
19. Rekha Deshpande: Whispers of the Mountains : Silent Cry of Aravali Rajasthani Cinema is Exploring New Horizons
20. Dipsikha Bhagawati: A Useful Ghost: The Dystopian Satire
21. Biswa Prasun Chatterji: Boong – A Manipur which India Doesn’t Know
22. Pradip Biswas: Boat People: Ann Hui’s Saga of Scary War
23. Smriti Suman: Reclaiming Home, Reclaiming the Nation and The Great Shamasuddin Family
24. Gursimran Datla: Riefenstahl (2024): The Seduction of Form
Festival Report
25. Nirmal Dhar: Miskolc: An Unknown Film Festival
Cover
Centenary Tribute
Guru Dutt
(9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964)
