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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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Akaler Sandhane (1980)
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Akaler Sandhane (1980) : A Famine within A Famine

May 20, 2021
Sayan Dutta
The 400 Blows
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How โ€œThe 400 Blowsโ€ Deviates From Classical Conventions of Narration?

May 19, 2021
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Similar Read to The Night Comes for Us:
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The Night Comes For Us (2018): Elevating the Indonesian Extreme Action Genre

May 17, 2021
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Garm Hava
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Garm Hava [1974]: On the Precipice of Belonging

May 15, 2021
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Taxi Driver
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Anatomy of: Taxi Driver Scene – “Late for the Sky”

May 15, 2021
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No Country For Old Men
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No Country For Old Men (2007): A Study of Human Duality

May 14, 2021
Lokesh Ganesan
The Namesake
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Creating an Ashoke Ganguli of his Own: Irrfan Khan in โ€œThe Namesakeโ€

May 13, 2021
Ahendrila Goswami
Nayattu
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How Nayattu (2021) Is An Unrealistic and Misleading Anti-Dalit Movie

May 12, 2021
Gokul KP
Hacksaw Ridge
Article · Essay

Cinema Against War

May 10, 2021
Sayan Dutta
Double Lives of Veronique
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On The Lives Of Veronique: The Miraculous Krzysztof Kieslowski

May 9, 2021
Santanu Das

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Can HOPE Survive Between TWO INDIAS? Karan Tejpalโ€™s โ€˜Stolenโ€™ Brilliantly Attempts To Find Out
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Irreversible (2002): A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
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Irreversible (2002): A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

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Salt of the Earth [1954] โ€“ A Landmark American Independent Cinema on the Working Class
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Needle Drop in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
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Phoenix (2014): “If I Do What You Tell Me, Will You Love Me?”
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More than Blood and Guts: Symbolism in Horror
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Yugant (1995) – Looking at Eco Feminism through the Prism of an Estranged Marriage
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