By Niveditha Prasad
The state in ‘Kantara’ is an ambiguous presence whose place in the narrative is grey. It appears as the post-colonial state in 1990, in an India at the cusp of neoliberalism. There are bikes, telephone poles, bottled soda drinks and freely flowing Scotch.
By Rimli Bhattacharya
As I watched the film, I travelled ages back when I was only a fifteen-year-old teenager and was a victim of a severe sex abuse.
By Vanshika Lakhani
‘Hum Aapke Hain Kaun’ reminded people how beautiful it is to have Indian traditions and culture while having fun with your extended family.
By Anjali V Raj
Similar to Masurkar’s Newton, Sherni is also quite distinct from general Bollywood movies. The movie is evenly placid and maintains hilarity without losing the serious vigour of the story.
By Devraj Singh Kalsi
With evolving tastes and new aesthetic sensibilities, the era of Muslim social dramas is unlikely to get a fresh lease of life but a well-made Muslim social drama may be accepted by the young audiences in India.
By Sourya Chowdhury
Tamhane is only two films old but is already in the process of mastering a distinct mode of storytelling, auteur-like in his predisposition for long, lingering shots, naturalism and loving portrayal of the mundane.
By Panchali Ray
While feminists have long been critiquing the institution of marriage, it took a global pandemic to bring out the unequal gendered division of labour, care work and violence entrenched within the family.
By Shinali
‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ is not a film that celebrates food in all its gloriousness, but one that entails the glorification of unpaid labour in its most prosaic form in the kitchen.
By Anjali V Raj
The movie doesn’t offer much to those viewers who expect a jubilant climax; rather, it offers a harmonious one.
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.
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.
By Prithvijeet Sinha
To this writer, as to countless others, Soumitra Dada was a combination of the intellectual and the everyday.
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.
By Aindrila Chakraborty
While Sufi mysticism is used commercially through its assimilation with other forms of traditional and non-traditional dance and music, the idea of Jihad is mostly commercialized to perpetuate the idea of a bad Muslim.
By Rashmi Kumari
Let our young learn the stories of actual real life heroes such as Babasaheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, Jyotiba Phule, Savitri Bai Phule, and many others. The struggle they embodied in their life can change an adolescent’s thinking at the developmental age.
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.
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.
By Priyanka Yadav
Guddo is every young girl I see in our society today. Aspiring but always underestimated. Free but overprotected.
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.
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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