For Your Consideration: Sita Sings The Blues [2008]
My favourite moment in Nina Paley’s audacious and wildly funny animated satire comes when the shadow puppets strip down mythical…
My favourite moment in Nina Paley’s audacious and wildly funny animated satire comes when the shadow puppets strip down mythical…
Ritesh Batra’s debut feature The Lunchbox is a film about desperate loneliness shared by two strangers—Saajan Fernandez, a grumpy widower…
At the ends of it all, the film sheds a spiritual light on the seemingly dark path to inevitable oblivion. Subhashish Bhutiani presents such a vivid sense of love, regrets, understanding and leaving things behind that, without much ado, you shed your soulless being and instantly lighten up. The film doesn’t just provide you with salvation, it gives your life and possible death a new meaning. A meaning that should be left to the understanding of the conscience and nothing more than that. “Mukti Bhawan” is an instant classic that will remain in my mind till I find myself in my own weary days.
Returning to grass-root indie grounds, Vikramaditya Motwane’s Trapped is a pretty basic survival film. What makes it interesting is the survival that doesn’t go behind locked closets, coffins or even terrible forest terrains, but right in the heart of the city that never sleeps – Mumbai.
At first glance, Garth Davis’ feature-film debut Lion (2016) seems to be a repeat of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (2008)…
In Taylor Sheridan I trust. The last two years have seen Sheridan provide some of the most tough, hard-hitting scripts…
In a world of zesty and succulent burger biopics, John Lee Hancock’s ‘The Founder’ is Filet-O-Fish, a plain meatless filmic sandwich that can be insipid for regular fast food audience. And yet, the film benefits from its neutral approach and tastelessness. It’s the delicate combination of odd ingredients that makes it a wholesome good old American meal.
Gandu is a devastating punk dream, a hyperactive nightmare where hallucinations are life and life is a hallucination.
Kaul will be celebrated as an unconventional film done right. It is a milestone film in Indian cinema which will have a cult status in the near future.