Started by two film(i) nerds, Parde Ke Peeche (Behind the Curtains) is a monthly podcast that explores Indian cinema through a critical lens. Hosted by Raeesa Farooqi & Ankur Desai.
WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF PKP In this special episode, PKP went live at the Calgary International Film Festival! Lead Programmer Brenda Liebe...
WELCOME BACK TO ANOTHER EPISODE OF PKP! This month, hosts Raeesa and Ankur catch up with the last three Indian films they watched during the lockdown....
One of the greatest hallmarks of Indian cinema is the use of song and dance to convey story and emotion, but it is quite different and much more popu...
Coined by film historian Amrit Gangar, “cinema of Prayōga” is a conceptual framework used to describe experimental and avant-garde Indian cinema, and ...
Hosts Raeesa and Ankur sit down with Calgary-based filmmaker Amair Javaid to discuss his new short film Hafiz (2020), which was selected to be part of...
WELCOME BACK to another episode of Parde Ke Peeche! This month we have a special episode for our listeners! We reached out to the Calgary-based South ...
With the on-going Black Lives Matter protests erupting in America and across the world, an interesting response took place in Bollywood. While many of...
WELCOME BACK!We hope you are safe and healthy during the COVID-19 quarantine, and to make your social-distancing a little more bearable, we got a new ...
Raeesa and Ankur take a deep-dive through the film industry of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the second largest film industry in India after Bollywood. They ex...