There’s an innocence to Tamil filmmaker Manikandan’s central characters which one can criticize verges on naiveté. Their encounter with the larger world is limited. With the exception of ‘Kuttrame Thandanai’ (Crime is…
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Season 1 of Undekhi (2020-ongoing) offered a new look at the brazenness with which North Indians commit horrendous crimes and pass it off as a cultural thing. It covered everything from blatant…
Ajagajantharam is a Malayalam-language film directed by Tinu Pappachan. Watching this film is nothing short of a bizarre experience. Throughout its two-hour duration, it gets maddeningly chaotic. And this chaos makes it…
A broken-up group of friends unexpectedly reuniting is a premise that rings all the familiar bells. This is a premise that has been touched upon several times by many films. One of…
While watching ‘Freedom Fight’, one thing that I kept noticing was how unorthodox the choices of narration that the makers had employed. From its shot selection to the infusion of atmospheric soundscape…
Sony Liv’s newest offering Rocket Boys (2022), directed by Abhay Pannu, tells the story of the two dynamically different, yet innately similar physicists; Homi Bhaba and Vikram Sarabhai. They were the two…