The first thing you’d notice when you watch a Vasan Bala film is just how loaded it is with pop-culture subtext. Being only 2 films old (with the unreleased ‘Peddlers’ as his…

The first thing you’d notice when you watch a Vasan Bala film is just how loaded it is with pop-culture subtext. Being only 2 films old (with the unreleased ‘Peddlers’ as his…
Bollywood currently stands at an exciting crossroads. Some of the biggest (and rarest) hits this year have been films that either had a brand of filmmaker to back them (“Gangubai Kathiawadi,” “Brahmāstra“)…
Director duo Pushkar-Gayathri fired up the screen when they pit two of the biggest South Indian stars – R.Madhavan & Vijay Sethupathi against each other in 2017. Loosely inspired by the folktale…
If there has ever been an instance of a narrative cul-de-sac that revives itself only through brute force, it would fall short in front of the oddly tortuous storyline of Vishal Furia’s…
Raat Akeli Hai streaming on Netflix: Devotion to a genre often compels filmmakers to turn a blind eye to the socio-political environment a story grows into. This leads to the creation of…