Parallel cinema or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to...

commercial masala films, a distinctive genre of art films known as parallel cinema has also existed, presenting realistic content and avoidance of musical...

Soviet parallel cinema is a genre of film and underground cinematic movement that occurred in the Soviet Union in the 1970s onwards. The term parallel cinema...

early Bombay cinema where "Arabian Nights cinema" became a popular genre. Like mainstream Indian popular cinema, Indian parallel cinema was influenced...

a result, the gap between parallel cinema (now known as art cinema) and mainstream cinema (now known as commercial cinema) widened. The 2000s also saw...

cinema in addition to Bollywood, Kannada language films, and television. Varma has directed films across multiple genres, including parallel cinema and...

has spanned over 160 films, mostly within independent and neorealist parallel cinema, though her work extended to mainstream films as well as a number of...

Malashree, Sudharani, Shruti, Tara among others. Kannada Cinema majorly contributed to the parallel cinema movement of India. Directors like Girish Kasaravalli...

(1983). While mostly prolific in popular Hindi cinema, during this time she ventured into parallel cinema, a movement of neo-realist arthouse films. These...

Telugu cinema in addition to Hindi, Kannada language films, and television. Varma has directed films across multiple genres, including parallel cinema and...