Directors From Parallel Cinema Entering Mainstream Bollywood: Saeed Akhtar Mirza’s Naseem (1995) is a tender film dealing with a sensitive subject like communal violence without portraying bloodshed. He has an impressive portfolio…
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Movies are often, predominantly, shot in two colors. Of course, other colors from the color palette of a movie are used, but the dominant and secondary color helps set the mood of…
10 Great Films On Hotstar That You Can Stream Right Now: After Netflix and Amazon Prime, Hotstar is one of the most used streaming apps to watch movies and TV Shows. For…
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:
There’s a song in ‘Masaan’ (2015) with the lyrics, “Mann Kasturi Re, Jag Dasturi Re”, meaning “The Heart is Emotional, The World is Practical.” It’s a fitting song for the film, which…
“The important thing is not to be cured, but to live with one’s ailments.” -Ferdinando Galiani Neeraj Ghaywan’s debut feature ‘Masaan‘, a film about characters caught in between the cycle of suffering…
