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Anyone who knows coastal Karnataka knows the private bus culture: rash driving, tight competition, loud horns, and conductors hanging off footboards. But Mithya director Sumanth Bhat’s Shankarabharanna takes that chaotic everyday reality and drives it straight into the dark. The idea, born out of Shine Shetty’s own travels and local folklore from the Karavali and…

On a crisp autumn evening in Seattle, I found myself on a train heading south, on my way to a screening of Lali, the opening-night film at the 21st Tasveer Film Festival. Founded by Rita Meher and Farah Nousheen in 2002, Tasveer was established to champion nuanced, authentic South Asian storytelling and challenge the stereotypes…