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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

June 17, 2025
Ishani Routh
When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

June 17, 2025
Ajay Rahul Raja
The Crime Behind The Curtain: Looking Back at โ€˜Yavanika,โ€™ a Cinematic Masterpieceย 

The Crime Behind The Curtain: Looking Back at โ€˜Yavanika,โ€™ a Cinematic Masterpieceย 

June 16, 2025
Vaishnavi S
Stolen (2025) movie

Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out

June 15, 2025
Ayan Dawn
Characterising the Space: The Cinematic Space as the Protagonist in โ€˜Laila Aur Satt Geetโ€™

Characterising the Space: The Cinematic Space as the Protagonist in โ€˜Laila Aur Satt Geetโ€™ (The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs, 2020)

June 15, 2025
Sahil
The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame
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The Sanctuary of Nature through the Queer Frame

Gentrit Miftari June 9, 2025June 10, 2025
Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes
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Popular Cinema in India: A Socio-Cultural Analysis of the Indian Cinema and Its Cinematic Tropes

Santosh Kumar Mamgain June 7, 2025June 8, 2025
What โ€˜Havocโ€™ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?
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What โ€˜Havocโ€™ Tells Us About Losing the Feel in Filmmaking?

Ritesh Sharma June 7, 2025June 7, 2025

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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced
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Memory as Resistance: How โ€˜Hirak Rajar Desheโ€™ and โ€˜Chorusโ€™ Speak for the Silenced

Ishani Routh June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™
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When Grief Haunts More than Ghosts: Exploring Loss in โ€˜The Devilโ€™s Backbone,โ€™ โ€˜The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,โ€™ & โ€˜Donโ€™t Look Nowโ€™

Ajay Rahul Raja June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
Stolen (2025) movie
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Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out

Ayan Dawn June 15, 2025June 15, 2025

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the lift boy 2019
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Which Floor to Happiness? The Lift Boy (2019) Weaves a Simple Yet Effective Tale of Optimism

January 5, 2022
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
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‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ and Loving the Old Way

December 17, 2021
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(Un)Controlled Chaos and Herd Mentality In the Films of Lijo Jose Pellissery

December 15, 2021
Krishnanunni Padinjassery
Oliver Stone's JFK
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How Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) Proved The Unprecedented Power Of Political Filmmaking

December 9, 2021
Aryan Vyas
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Befriending Tony from Netflix’s ‘After Life’

December 7, 2021
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Squid Game (Netflix TV Series 2021-): The Nightmare of Karl Marx

December 2, 2021
Sandeep Sreelekha
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Do You know How to Die? On David Loweryโ€™s A Ghost Story and the Green Knight

November 9, 2021
Shai Tubali
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How Fearless Nadia Became One of The First Action Stars of Indian Cinema

November 8, 2021
Parth Pant
Mammootty in Mathilukal and Vidheyan
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Mathilukal and Vidheyan: How Mammootty Captures the Opposite Ends of Hyper-Masculinity with His Layered Performances

October 27, 2021
Akash Deshpande
Koker Trilogy Part 1 Where is the friends house
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A Deconstruction of Abbas Kiarostami’s Koker Trilogy

October 11, 2021
Aqsa Aleem

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Marriage Story (2019): Accepting Love In Separation In Noah Baumbach’s Nuanced Take On Loss
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Aryan Vyas March 25, 2022

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Doubt [2008]: A Crisis of Faith Leads to a Dissection of the Nature of Certainty
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Wheel Of Fortune and Fantasy [2021] – A Complex Dish of Desire, Identity & Self-exploration served piping hot
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Reading ‘Writer’ (2021) through a Marxist Lens
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Reading ‘Writer’ (2021) through a Marxist Lens

Jeeva Pitchaimani March 2, 2022

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Churuli (2021): A Transversal of Understanding Through the Debauchery of Language
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Krishnanunni Padinjassery February 15, 2022

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Shardul Thakur Comes Out of the Closet: A Nuanced Portrayal of Queerness in Badhaai Do
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Shardul Thakur Comes Out of the Closet: A Nuanced Portrayal of Queerness in Badhaai Do

Ahendrila Goswami February 14, 2022

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Blind Chance (1987): A Flurry of Missed Opportunities Amidst Turbulent Times
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Blind Chance (1987): A Flurry of Missed Opportunities Amidst Turbulent Times

Pranjal Singh February 9, 2022

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Silence & Violence – How the Bank Robbery Scene in ‘Hana-Bi’ Discretely Disrupts Order, Whilst Maintaining its Facade
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