There is this scene in Bhavesh Joshi: Superhero where Siku (Harshvardhan Kapoor) is about to flee after almost getting caught while staking out in the bar. He gets on his bike, starts…
Tag: Vigilantism
A Monster with a Thousand Heads [2015] : A Taut Supremely Crafted Social Thriller Uruguayan-born Mexican film-maker Rodrigo Pla’s movies often deal with the social apartheid or class conflicts. His common folk…
At one early point in Director Matthew Heineman’s vibrant, drug war documentary Cartel Land (2015), we see a worn out, weeping woman talking about how her husband was kidnapped and tortured in horrific, unspeakable ways. The woman’s terrifying experience might make us think of “Cartel Land” as a subjective documentary on Mexico’s hazardous narco culture. But, surprisingly the documentary ends up being an objective one as Heineman accomplishes what he had set out to do – ‘to observe & document’.