Award-winning Indian screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala has been tapped to write “Street Dreams,” a biopic based on the remarkable true story of Vicky Roy, a former street child who rose to international ...

Punjabi director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding)—who appears Saturday at the First United Methodist Church as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival—made her debut with this 1988 feature, and it shows a ...

Govind Nihalani’s hard-hitting drama gave audiences a bold look at social injustice through the silent agony of a tribal worker wrongly accused of murder. Om Puri’s restrained yet explosive ...