Deepa Gahlot is head of Film and Theatre at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). She writes on cinema and enjoys bad films as much as she admires the good ones. Gahlot has been reviewing films for the better part of a quarter century and the romance is yet to fade, although familiarity has bred some contempt.

TAKE-2: 50 Films that Deserve a New Audience by Deepa Gahlot

An essential resource for scholars, connoisseurs and serious fans of Indian Cinema, Take-2 makes for an entertaining, informative and nostalgia-filled read. In the last few years there has been a glut of books on Indian cinema but most of them focus on the life and times of famous stars or...