Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s debut feature Swayamvaram (1972) is a stark melodrama that marked the beginning of the Malayalam New Wave, an adjunct of India’s Parallel Cinema movement. The film …

Once lost and now rediscovered: India’s pioneering first queer film.

A movement of filmmakers overturned the industrial hegemony of Bombay, rejecting the orthodoxies of patriarchy, religion, and caste.

Once lost and now rediscovered: India’s pioneering first queer film.

This daring and progressive account of a complex love triangle broke all manner of taboos to emerge as India’s first queer film and an icon of Parallel Cinema.

Omar Ahmed locates the rise and fall of India’s parallel cinema within a shifting postcolonial state—caught between resistance and repression. His book suggests that parallel cinema declined after 199...

Omar Ahmed locates the rise and fall of India’s parallel cinema within a shifting postcolonial state—caught between resistance and repression. His book suggests that parallel cinema declined after 199...

This daring and progressive account of a complex love triangle broke all manner of taboos to emerge as India’s first queer film and an icon of Parallel Cinema.

THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.

Launching a Home Video Label for South Asian cinema

A movement of filmmakers overturned the industrial hegemony of Bombay, rejecting the orthodoxies of patriarchy, religion, and caste.

THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.

ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a watch and clapping his hands

Alt: jai and veeru from the Indian film SHOLAY

THE CLOUD DOOR, a new boutique label, presents one of Indian cinema's most influential cult films on Blu-ray.