Film Street Journal, new entertainment weekly, launched in Mumbai

Siddharth Malhotra, Bharathi Pradhan, and Divya Dutta during the launch of The Film Street Journal at Oxford Bookstore

Film Street Journal (FSJ), a new entertainment weekly edited by journalist and author Bharathi S Pradhan was launched at a function hosted by the Oxford Bookstore here today.

The publication was launched by Siddharth Malhotra, director of "We are Family", and well-known actress Divya Dutt. The release was followed by a panel discussion on film journalism.

The publishers of the new all-colour journal say it will focus on news and not gossip and be produced on international quality paper with spiffy layouts. They also say it will offer a platform for fresh, incisive and even radical criticism and debate on cinema and its evolving forms and breakthrough movements.

They said the weekly would endeavour to "provide a panoramic view of cinema from across the entertainment world- the real and the digital, and cut through the excess, unnecessary, superficial jargon and provide its readers with a glimpse of the light at the core of so much chaos and a portrait of the world through the flicker of the magic lantern."

Pradhan said, "The Film Street Journal is for people and institutions who partake in its worldview of cinema as the most potent medium of expression, who believes in the power of cinema as an instrument of change and revolution, as a mirror of our society and times and as a entity of mystique. It is an exclusive journal dedicated to in-depth and definitive articles, interviews and film reviews."

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