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Renuka Shahane’s ‘Tribhanga – Tedhi Medhi Crazy’: Lessons from the lives of three generations of independent women

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  • Posted on February 3, 2021

By Anjali V Raj
The movie doesn’t offer much to those viewers who expect a jubilant climax; rather, it offers a harmonious one.

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Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Call Me by Your Name’: A lodestar for what is to come

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  • Posted on December 12, 2020

By Kieran Correia
Based on the (dare I say, better!) book by André Aciman of the same name, the film is a tour de force of emotions, turbulently beautiful and devastating, exploring themes of Jewish identity and sexuality along the way.

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Beyond the humour of ‘Ludo’: Characters and their actions

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  • Posted on November 20, 2020

By Raunaq Saraswat
The comedy in Ludo rests largely on the shoulders of Aalu, the good-for-everything waiter who blurs the boundaries to fulfill his unrequited love.

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Film Review: Atanu Ghosh’s ‘Ek Phaali Rodh’

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  • Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020

By Sramana Saha 
Ek Phaali Rodh ends on a note of hope and positivity in a dark and gloomy bystander-filled world. It conveys the message that the Good Samaritans not only exist but emerge the brightest, relegating all the negative elements to the background.

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‘Bulbbul’: An illusion of justice and empowerment?

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  • Posted on August 7, 2020August 7, 2020

By Aaryata Agarwal & Ishika Mittal
The idea here is that society and legal systems have often so spectacularly failed women and justice seems so unattainable that the fantasy of a wronged woman being reborn as a goddess seems like the only way to get something even close to it.

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War and the Female Gaze in Waad al-Kateab’s ‘For Sama’

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  • Posted on July 11, 2020

By Bijaya Biswal
A young Waad al-Kateab arms herself with a camera around men equipped with snipers and tells us the story of a war from the perspective of a woman.

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Blue Collar (1978): A reminder that a classless society is still a far-fetched dream

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  • Posted on July 9, 2020

By Kanak Mishra
Even in today’s times, Blue Collar is yet another reminder that a classless society is still a far-fetched dream for the world where the capitalist structures will always pit those at the bottom rung against each other by hook or crook.

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‘The Lunchbox’: A modern, humanist film

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  • Posted on June 22, 2020

By Prithvijeet Sinha
Soaked in silences, The Lunchbox is uplifting modern cinema that stays true to its humanist heart and hardly loses touch with it. It bundles wit, personal discovery, practical wisdom and unrequited desires.

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Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Throne of Blood’, the finest Shakespearean adaptation

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  • Posted on June 20, 2020

By Mohammed Mishad K
While Macbeth gives an opulence of linguistic vigour, Akira Kurosawa’s film is a landmark in cinematic visual brilliance.

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Nicholas Kharkongkor’s ‘Axone’ and the taboo of eating and the ‘otherness’ of the tongue

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  • Posted on June 13, 2020June 13, 2020

By Sukla Singha
But Axone is not just about the taboo of cooking a ‘weird smelling’ food, but it’s also about the ‘otherness’ of the tongue, about how accent and pronunciation are indicators of where an individual comes from.

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‘Qissa’ of Irrfan Khan

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  • Posted on May 27, 2020June 5, 2020

By Khalid Jawed
In Qissa, we do not find the Irrfan Khan of other films: style of dialogue delivery, facial expression, gait, reflexes, mannerism and his entire body language are pronouncedly different.

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