Raj Amit Kumar
Press
Interviews first, then the writing. Newest at the top. A piece can sit with more than one film.
Interviews
Writing
- 26 February 2026KMBR · ArticleA screening in Butte, where the film was shotBrown plays The Covellite in Butte. An immigrant chased by ICE, in the town where the film was made.
- 18 February 2026Moneycontrol · InterviewMake the lives of the working crew betterSeason 2, power, and a limit on how long a crew should be kept on set.
- 13 February 2026Mid-day · InterviewThere was no insecurity among the actorsOn Bindiya ke Bahubali 2, and on Brown as a film about an immigrant chased by ICE.
- 9 February 2026IWMBuzz · InterviewA sweeping success, and one story told as two seasonsBindiya as a family story, and Brown ready for release.
- 5 February 2026Zee News · InterviewWorking with Ranvir Shorey and Saurabh ShuklaSeason 2 as the payoff, and three scripts he is taking to producers.
- 4 February 2026Bollywood Hungama · InterviewWe still have to be green-litOn the response to Season 2, and what a third season would have to be.
- 30 January 2026Firstpost · ReviewSaurabh Shukla and Ranvir Shorey are the life of the showSeason 2, three stars. A family war that at least tries, after so much mass cinema that does not.
- 29 January 2026Bollywood Bubble · InterviewEgos are not my businessDirecting Saurabh Shukla, Ranvir Shorey, Seema Biswas and Sheeba Chaddha.
- 28 January 2026NDTV · InterviewHe believes in the art and the storyA Hindi conversation on Season 2, the cast, and choosing actors for the work.
- 23 January 2026Firstpost · InterviewI don’t know why people say he is a difficult actorSeason 2, the ensemble, and casting for the character rather than a star face.
- 21 January 2026BollySpice · ReviewMore implosive, and more kineticSubhash K. Jha on Season 2. The interest is what happens between the shootouts.
- 16 January 2026The Times of India · ArticleSeason 2, the trailer and the dateSeason 2 opens 21 January. Bada Davan is in jail. Chhote Davan takes the town.
- 13 August 2025NDTV · InterviewExploring touchy topics has become a difficult taskFrom Unfreedom and Brown into a popular form, and what can still be said.
- 9 August 2025Popcorn Reviewss · ReviewA slow burn, with the cast doing the workSeason 1 ends because the platform split one story in two.
- 9 August 2025The Times of India · ReviewSmall-town mafia, stuck in first gearSeason 1. The cast is in form. The story is overstuffed.
- 1 May 2021The Sunday Guardian · InterviewThe human side of the immigration debateRaj Amit Kumar and Sudhir Mishra on Brown, guerrilla shooting in Montana, and independent film.
- 12 April 2021Filmfare · ArticleSudhir Mishra joins BrownMishra comes on as executive producer. Kumar on why the immigrant story had to be told.
- 15 May 2018News18 · InterviewThe censor board should be thrown in the garbageHe refused every cut, including the climax, and says the board itself is the problem.
- 30 April 2018Firstpost · InterviewMake your art the way you wantAn email interview on the ban, the name Unfreedom, and the first schedule of Brown.
- 25 April 2018Hindustan Times · InterviewFilmmakers in India are at the mercy of moral policingAfter the Netflix release, on self-censorship and the censor board.
- 17 April 2018Hindustan Times · InterviewA legal fight against the banNetflix carries the film. He says the theatrical ban is still illegal.
- 14 April 2018The Week · InterviewMoral guardians want to decide what the public seesAfter a hundred screenings, Netflix, and the start of Brown.
- 10 April 2018Hindustan Times · ArticleBanned by the board, now on NetflixThree years after the ban, Unfreedom is on Netflix. About a hundred screenings came first.
- 2018Platform · InterviewAn honest film is made from insideAfter Netflix, on why he would not make the film with an audience already in mind.
- 14 July 2017The Telegraph · InterviewCensorship should be abolishedIn Calcutta, on a hundred screenings of a film the board refused.
- 22 June 2015The Times of India · InterviewThe next film is a battle set in 1992From Florida, on the Delhi High Court case, and a film he was writing on Ayodhya.
- 22 June 2015ANOKHI Life · InterviewWhy hope had no place in the filmIdentity, violence, and what the ban was for.
- 3 June 2015The Daily Beast · ArticleBanned in India: my censorship battleHis own piece, written from the censor board’s statements about the film.
- 29 May 2015The Hollywood Reporter · ReviewUnfreedomThe US theatrical release, reviewed.
- 28 May 2015The New York Times · ReviewA tale of sex, religion and traditionJeannette Catsoulis on the New York and New Delhi stories.
- 28 May 2015Selig Film News · InterviewUnfreedom, in his own wordsA recorded conversation on the film, Hari Nair, and the poem it came from.
- 19 May 2015Youth Ki Awaaz · InterviewBanned for portraying same-sex relationsOn the campaign against the ban, and the screenings at IIT Bombay and IFFK.
- 13 April 2015The Indian Express · ArticleA call for freedom of expressionA petition to the prime minister, and a video asking the board to certify, not ban.
- 3 April 2015Hindustan Times · InterviewBanned for showing religious fundamentalismHe says the board’s real problem was fundamentalism, not only the lesbian story.
- 2 April 2015BollySpice · InterviewSex, violence, and Indian politicsOn the film’s symbols, and why people in India were not allowed to see it.
- 31 March 2015The Hindu · InterviewBan unfair, says Unfreedom directorAfter the tribunal, he calls the ban a taking of a basic right.
- 29 March 2015The Quint · ArticleThe board said the film would ignite unnatural passionsHis answer to the censor board, the week the ban was reported.
- 7 March 2015The American Bazaar · InterviewVictorian morality against Hindu fundamentalismWhy the board banned the film, and why he would not cut it.
- 14 December 2014, IFFKBusiness Standard · InterviewA Bollywood actor wanted the sexuality cutAt IFFK, on Blemished Light, and why he would not change the script for a star.