Welcome To Sajjanpur and the “Quirky Heartland Comedy” Trope
Revisiting Shyam Benegal’s Welcome to Sajjanpur now made me realize how this 2008 sleeper hit had all the tropes of…
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Padatik [1973] Mubi Review – The Solitude of a Young Revolutionary
Padatik (The Guerilla Fighter aka The Foot Soldier, 1973) is the final part in Mrinal Sen’s ‘Calcutta Trilogy’: movies that…
Section 375 (2019): Revisiting The Compelling Courtroom Drama
It’s tricky to express one’s views on Ajay Bahl’s Section 375 (2019) without giving anything away. However, I shall try…
Spielberg (2017): A Modest Storyteller vs The Spectacle
Spielberg (2017): Modest Storyteller vs The Spectacle: Let us begin by talking about Duel (1971); I feel Duel is a…
A Cloud Drifted – A Tribute to S.P. Balasubramanyam
In the courts of kings, there were court poets. Addressing someone as a national poet isn’t new to us. In…
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The Disciple [2020]: ‘TIFF’ Review – A deeply moving character drama about the arduous journey of a failed artist
Chaitanya Tamahe’s meditative sophomore feature ‘The Disciple,’ opens with a small-scaled concert where a veteran Indian Classical singer is performing…
Revisiting Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding (2001)
Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding debuted at Venice Film Festival on August 30, 2001, in the main competition section and went…
10 Most Underrated Hindi Movies of the Decade (2000s)
10 Most Underrated Hindi Films of the Decade 2000s: The decade of 2000s brought in a very prominent paradigm shift…
How the 2019 Malayalam film Ishq showed a middle finger to toxic masculinity
The Interval Scene of Ishq (2019): “I am a man, I need to know” “Oh, I didn’t see any of…