Indian film

Author and former award winning San Francisco radio personality Sandip Roy comments on life from his home in Kolkata, India.

While we know all directors through their films, the remarkable Indian director Satyajit Ray left so much more… on paper.

While we know all directors through their films, the remarkable Indian director Satyajit Ray left so much more… on paper.

India’s most famous filmmaker would have turned 100 this Sunday.

The new paper strip test for COVID-19 in India is called “Feluda.” Why such a name? Sandip Roy sleuths out the answer.

Did E.T. really come from Calcutta, India?The year was 1983. Aseem Chhabra, a graduate student, who had come from India just about a year back, needed to…

An iconic Indian "Bollywood" film reminds Sandip Roy that a solid relationship can transcend the oceanic gap of language.

It may have been passed over for an Oscar nomination, but the New York Times calls The Lunchbox a Bollywood anomaly - a quiet movie of unexpressed anguish…