Good Night Good Morning [2010]
For all my friends bemoaning the purpose, rationale, and economics of parallel cinema [ like it was a mythical beast]-…
For all my friends bemoaning the purpose, rationale, and economics of parallel cinema [ like it was a mythical beast]-…
Masculinity is so neat and smart in the old Hollywood movies, especially the ones set in the American frontier. While…
Pink raises some uncomfortable questions and truths about the world we live in. Uncomfortable because knowing or unknowingly most of us are also part of the world that’s in the wrong here. Pink leaves a deep cut on our conscience. It affects the judgement and also stares right into everyone whose notion about women is shrouded by cheap, mindless props or their own viciously unacceptable characterizations about them. Subtle and loud in equal measures, Aniruddha Roy Chatterjee’s Pink feels like a lesson on morality. But it also feels like a lesson that needs to be taught and at least, listened to.
That opening shot which shows the infinite splendor of star-clad, nighttime sky and the dark, deserted corridors of an enigmatic…
The Review of Om Dar-B-Dar hasn’t always been a review of Om Dar-B-Dar. Once it was an open letter to Prime Minister. Few hours ago it was a horoscope, the summary of someone’s ill fortune. It thinks that it is never too late to be the review of Om Dar-B-Dar and the best sweaters are knitted by old ladies on the Moon.
Over the last few years Priyanka Chopra has been taking the international entertainment by storm. She has been creating a…
In the film Dr. Siras says – The new generation just wants to label everything. So, if I call Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh fantastic, fabulous, cool, and awesome it would be a grave mistake on my part. What Mehta’s film did to me was turn my head in shame because that’s exactly what people like you and me do. We like to label things because poetry is just not our thing anymore and reading between the pauses is something we have forgotten.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s ravishingly wild, survival movie “The Revenant” (2015) opens with a shot of a steadily flowing stream, whose currents are disturbed by the steps of men carrying guns. A man chooses his target and the gun sound reverberates through the forest, signaling the impending sense of doom that waits for all the frontiersmen. Arrows whiz past in & out of the frames, making contact with the human flesh; faces are bludgeoned; musket fire pulls down archers from the tree tops. Without employing the use of 3-D, these visuals just drop us in, diffusing the nauseating feeling
Virumandi won the International Award for Best Asian Film at the 2004 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea….