Praveen Morchhale’s beautifully nuanced third feature Widow of Silence (2018) opens with a mute, passive old woman getting tied to a chair in a small, sunlit room. The younger woman after tying…
Tag: London Indian Film Festival
‘Iti, Tomari Dhaka’ means ‘Yours Truly, Dhaka’. Dhaka. The capital of Bangladesh. Just like any other city in the world, it is natural that Dhaka also cocoons a canvas of lives and…
Somewhere in the film, the man who’s being interviewed asks if he can get up to have a glass of water. He wonders if it would affect the film or if this…
Lenin M. Sivan’s LGBTQ drama ‘Roobha’ is quite reminiscent of Wong-Kar-Wai’s style, especially during its quiet, understated moments. After all, it’s about two lonely souls trying to find solace in one another…
Kattumaram (‘Catamaran’, 2019) marks the feature-length directorial debut of Swarnavel Eswaran, a documentarian and a professor in film studies. Filmed in the tsunami-ravaged fishing community in South India (Akkampetai, Karaikal district), Kattumaram…
Terrorism has no religion. That is the underlying spirit that director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki tries to exude in his thrilling hostage drama “Saturday Afternoon”. The dichotomy of interpretations perhaps, or the confusion…