Tag: Kalki Koechlin

15 Indian Movies that Centre Around a Dysfunctional Family

15 Indian Movies that Centre Around a Dysfunctional Family: “Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.” – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Is it,…

Every Dibakar Banerjee Movie Ranked

Dibakar Banerjee; whose interesting oeuvre shows how he has tried reaching out to the audience both in form of the cinematic language and content has been out of sight post after his…

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Dev.D (2009): Replacing Love And Tragedy With Lust And Ego

Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap, in an interview on his movie Dev.D (2009), a modern era adaptation of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel Devdas (1917), when asked about the legend of Devdas, states: “Devdas…

2015

The 10 Best Hindi Films Of 2015

Bollywood is still not done with the masala films, but an audience can always choose. I took an oath to stay away from cinematic thrash this year. While there where occasional let-downs: R. Balki’s Shamitabh & Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet to name a few, there where some really surprising films like Harshavardhan G. Kulkarni’s Hunterrr & Neeraj Pandey’s Baby. But Unlike last year, 2015’s mid-list had a lot of gems and the later part of the year mostly was cold, except three films in the list that follows:

Death In The Gunj (2017): Of Shutus and Stereotypes

I rarely give my analysis of a movie. Sometimes, I do scene analysis of some scenes on my Instagram handle. But for “A Death in the Gunj”, I definitely felt that I…

DEV.D [2009]: A Refreshingly Unusual Black Comedy

“Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It’s the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody…