Twenty-Four Eyes [1954] Review โ The Collective Suffering and Healing of a War-Scarred Nation
โIf you ever feel like crying, come to my house. Weโll have a good cry togetherโ, says the perseverant teacher,…
Revisiting Aamir Khanโs Taare Zameen Par after reading Carl Honorรฉโs In Praise of Slowness
Besides being a well-crafted and earnest drama, Taare Zameen Par is one of those few Indian films which explore the…
How Masaan (2015) Divorces Women’s Desire From Shame
Thereโs a song in โMasaanโ (2015) with the lyrics, โMann Kasturi Re, Jag Dasturi Reโ, meaning โThe Heart is Emotional,…
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Review : The Arrival of Spaghetti Western
It has been a long time since I watched Sergio Leone’s Dollar’s Trilogy or Man with No Name Trilogy. But…
The Weaker Sex in Breaking Bad
Why did Walter White become a drug dealer? The sincere, incorruptible man he was, was it solely cancer that made…
Silence (2016): An Unforgettable Journey Through Human Faith
Silence (2016) Review: To make something ambitious, actually happen, it takes love, talent, and dedication, and Silence lavishes it as…
Miss Man [2020] Short Film Review – Journey Through the Earth Between the Binaryย
Miss Man Review: It was during my college when the diversity of human identity overwhelmed me and I finally expanded…
Aviva [2020] Review – A gender-fluid enigma about the relationship we have with ourselves and others
Israeli-American director Boaz Yakin’s latest film ‘Aviva‘ is an arresting piece of cinematic telling. It formulates a strange mix of…