With highest number of theatres on its land the Telugu speaking cinema, never ever showed its tongue, like say Marathi Cinema, the other regional cinema or even like its same womb languages of

The Indian cinema capital, Mumbai can be called the epicenter for the cinema of North. (The Indian Heartland ?) Mumbai with its layeredness can accommodate as many varieties in its exposition. Parsi theatre had already laid a kind of ‘Naksha' (blueprint), read more..

How regional was ‘Hyderbad Blues'? A Bhojpuri film, that was hit in the bylanes of Hindi heartland, was remade in 4 other cinema speaking languages and Indian cinema going Janata lapped it up everywhere. Sitting in the South somewhere in his studio-home, a music maestro rules the Indian music industry.read more..

When the ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya' was used in the titles of Spike Lee's flick ‘Inside Man', Indian song had arrived, maybe a little before! Unlike with Spike Lee's movie, Indian cinema song is part of the movie narrative, yet, independent! Some worst shot songs are the best. (Gulzar Saab, the wonderful lyricist poet just cannot shoot his own songs!) read more..