sans serif records with regret the passing away of Amita Malik, the radio journalist who grew to be one of India’s leading film and media critics, in New Delhi, on Friday. She was 86 years old. Often referred to as “the first lady of Indian media“, Ms Malik conducted path-breaking interviews with luminaries like Satyajit…
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‘There is hardly any good film criticism in India’
Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India’s most acclaimed film maker abroad after Satyajit Ray, took questions from the staff of The Indian Express as part of their Idea Exchange programme. Shubhra Gupta: How do you deal with professional criticism? Adoor Gopalakrishnan: There is hardly any good criticism. What happens is that the people who write reviews, who think…