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2025: The Year Indian Cinema Stopped Arriving and Started Belonging

For a long time, Indian cinema existed inside a language of anticipation. We spoke of it as an industry perpetually “on the brink”, of global recognition, of serious critical legitimacy, of finally being understood beyond stereotypes. Every festival screening was framed as a breakthrough, every foreign review treated as a moment of validation.

A land of stories still, waiting for its own

The Northeast has always existed in our national imagination as both a presence and an absence—visible in political rhetoric yet eccentrically missing from our cultural narratives.

Myth of El Dorado

Lately, I had an opportunity of viewing the latest OTT presentation on the much loved Paddington Brown Bear,“Paddington in Peru” (Paddington series 3).The bear who came from the “deep, dark jungles of Peru”, found himself, after a whirl of circumstances, at Paddington station in London.