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Chhichhore
It’s kind of odd when the rich claim that money isn’t everything. Yet, who else can make that statement.
Few thoughts on Chhichhore
One of the scenes where I was moved, and where I believe the reason for the film to exist (beyond pragmatics) is when an old Anni (Sushant Singh Rajput) wants to say that maybe the IIT tag isn’t exactly worth the hype (sitting in a posh house in Mumbai). That…
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Between Bala and Ujda Chaman
Between Bala and Ujda Chaman
Bala feels like dishonest filmmaking in the name of socially relevant cinema (and it becomes more evident in front of a less polished, simplistic, sleazy but relatively honest Ujda Chaman).
For a film that centres around the message of accepting and standing-up for oneself – whether balding or brown – it has its actress shining with ridiculous amounts of soot which varies from scene to scene,…
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Game Over Not to take away from the pretty good atmosphere building that they have achieved (and some of the best crafted jump scares in an Indian context), the core problem for me here is how the narrative chooses to bring about Swapna's development.
IAWRT 2019 | Day 3
IAWRT 2019 | Day 3
The following pieces are reviews and others tidbits about the films I saw during the 15th IAWRT (The International Association of Women in Radio & Television) Asian Women’s Film Festival, held from 5th – 7th March, 2019 in New Delhi. The following are the reviews of the films I saw on the last (third) day. It is a beautiful festival, if small, showcasing films from women filmmakers across the…
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IAWRT 2019 | Day 2
Film Reviews | IAWRT 2019 | Day 2
The following pieces are reviews and others tidbits about the films I saw during the 15th IAWRT (The International Association of Women in Radio & Television) Asian Women’s Film Festival, held from 5th – 7th March, 2019 in New Delhi. The following are the reviews of the films I saw on the second day. It is a beautiful festival, if small, showcasing films from women filmmakers across the world. I…
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IAWRT | Day 1 | Part 2
IAWRT | Day 1 | Part 2
The following pieces are reviews and others small tidbits about the films I saw during the 15th IAWRT (The International Association of Women in Radio & Television) Asian Women’s Film Festival, held from 5th – 7th March, 2019 in New Delhi. The following are the reviews of the films I saw on the second half of Day 1. It is a beautiful festival, if small, showcasing films from women filmmakers…
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IAWRT | Day 1 | Part 1
Review and tidbits. 15th IAWRT | Day 1 | Part 1 | Delhi
The following pieces are reviews and small tidbits about the films I saw during the 15th IAWRT (The International Association of Women in Radio & Television) Asian Women’s Film Festival, held from 5th – 7th March, 2019 in New Delhi. It is a beautiful festival, if small, showcasing films from women filmmakers across the world. I have tried to remain as detailed and factually correct about the films…
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On sleeping through movies I will begin writing so as to build a habit of it. Hope it stays. I was watching Chris Marker's…
Soni
Why should a realistic narrative on two policewomen stuck in a decadent patriarchal system should choose to end on a note of subtle positivity? Ivan Ayr’s Soni takes us through a small period of life of Soni, a young policewoman in Delhi, and her superintendent Kalpana, negotiating their way through a system bound on pushing them to the edge. Soni, cynical and hot-headed, lives in a cool blue…
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The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain
The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain
‘What forced the shepherd with thousands of goats, cows and dogs the size of bears, to walk the sacred Naga mountain?’, ask the Gaddi shepherds. Ridham Janve’s film is set in the difficult pastoral hills of Himachal, amongst the shepherds of Gaddi community, who revere Naga-devta, and maintain that only those with the purest of intentions and immense experience can tread the Naga mountain.
Ar…
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Jaoon Kahaan Bata Ae Dil
Jaoon Kahaan Bata Ae Dil
That’s a fitting title for a film as distant from grand and sensual romances of good looking people cinema generally serves us. The way characters make love in movies often makes one wonder why porn videos (and real life) couldn’t be like that – the actual act is dirty, noisy and doesn’t always end as we want it to, much like the film – that’s as real as it gets.
I think they are having fun…
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Light in the Room
Light in the Room
Light in the Room by Rahul Riji Nair Ottamuri Velicham (Malyalam)
Set in an isolated rural household on a hilltop about a newly married couple, Rahul Riji Nair’s Light in the Room attempts to build a tale around marital rape, an issue quite widespread yet brushed under the bed – the proverbial ‘Elephant in the Room’. Wide eyed Sudha (Vinitha Koshy) is married off to Chandran (Deepak Parambol),…
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Mehsampur
Can a self-aware film on exploitation still wilfully exploit? Who is it addressed to, and what does it address?
Kabir Singh Chowdhry’s Mehsampur (2018), spins a tale around the idea of filmmaking, documenting and recreating reality for the screen, around the Punjabi folk singer Amar Singh ‘Chamkila’, who was assassinated in 1988 in Mehsampur. The narrative device here is a cocky filmmaker…
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Bodhi
The problems of the draught stricken Vidarbha farmers still remain unheard in the mainstream media (as covered in P. Sainath’s brilliant but disturbing Nero’s Guests), despite the scale of farmer suicides. Here is a region dying to be heard, with very few films talking about it. Vinit Chandrasekharan’s Bodhitells the tale of Vinya, a local lower-caste leader, and a missionary priest, Father…
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Bulbul Can Sing
A review of Rima Das 'Bulbul Can Sing' In a world that desires everything pretty, life can be harsh for those cursed with beauty.
In a world that desires everything pretty, life can be harsh for those cursed with beauty. For one, it ogles at them without any inhibitions; for another, it assumes that things come easy to them easily by virtue of them being so desirable.
Rima Das’ Bulbul Can Singtells the story of Bulbul, a pretty teenage girl, and her friends in a village in Assam. Rima, similar to her earlier 2 films, sets…
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Jonaki
What does desire look like?
Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s Jonakiroams to tell the story of Jonaki (the late Lolita Chaterjee), an 80 year old woman travelling through a trail of decaying memories. We see the events and the people around Jonaki, as a series of vignettes blending in time and spaces. As Jonaki decays, she relives her life, and we see it coloured through her desires, beginning from her…
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Stree (2018)
 Stree (2018) – Conflict of Intent
Dir. Amar Kaushik
I have always believed that horror film as a medium of storytelling, of considerable narrative depth has been overlooked for a significant part the last few decades, Hindi cinema not withstanding. Horror (and to a lesser extent comedy) never crosses the line of greatness despite audience acceptance – the genre rarely finds embrace in film…
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