Sunday, May 28, 2017

A Death in the Gunj: a preview

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Konkona Sen Sharma’s debut feature film is a sensitive portrayal of ‘difference’ in a heady family drama which mutates into a thriller ...
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Asa Jawar Majhe: Of Drudgery and Romance and Poetry

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I t’s one film which has been cropping up in our conversations now and then since it premiered at the 71 st Venice International Festiv...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Piku: ‘Feel good’ in a different package

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Bollywood’s “feel good” romances of the 1990s, a genre re-inaugurated by Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and reinforced by Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaa...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The Imitation Game: Love and Death in the time of the Second World War!

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When the Cambridge professor, with an exceptional talent at computing, is interrogated for an alleged “gross indecency” (the circumlocut...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Baby: Terrorism, thrills and patriotic fervour

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Neeraj Pandey’s Baby acquired more mileage and topicality than it aniticipated, thanks to the Charlie Hebdo incident, that has since f...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Haider: Of Sons, Lovers and Shakespeare

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Naseeruddin Shah in his enthrallingly honest autobiography And Then One Day makes an interesting observation, which if not original, is...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Chotushkon: Triangles and Tragedies

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The seemingly complex parallelepiped-like structure that encloses the title of Srijit Mukherji’s Chotushkon is a figurative representat...
Friday, August 29, 2014

The Hundred Foot Journey: Food of Love

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Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Juliet Blake coming together to back a project speaks volumes about it. Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hall...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Filmistan: Only connect!

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Nitin Kakkar’s Filmistaan could have very well carried the Forsterian subtitle to Howard’s End , “Only Connect”! Alluding to one of the ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Apur Panchali: Rediscovering a phenomenon

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Kaushik Ganguly who has been moving from strength to strength since Ar Ekti Premer Golpo reaching an acme of brilliance with Shobdo , r...
Monday, April 28, 2014

2 States: Predictable and Frustrating

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Bombay Cinema has to a certain extent come out of its formulaic romances and extolling of heterosexual coupledom and family in recent ti...
Friday, March 21, 2014

‘Jatishwar’: The mystery of memories

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Memory has a major role to play in writing and rewriting history. History is not confined within pages of fat books, but history is ...