Film Review

Paatal Lok Season 2: A Treasure

When I did see Paatal Lok-1, I must say I treasured it. The five years hiatus for Paatal Lok-2 resurrection has been worth it. The OTT series, streamed on Amazon…

Human pain and contemporary cinema

This country has tremendous festivals to celebrate, as the population and culture are so diverse from north to south, with hundreds of religious, seasonal, and cultural events every year. As…

Corporate Chicaneries

Auden wrote that many lives have been lived without love, but none without water. He couldn't possibly have written about the utter necessity of water without thinking of the billions…

The Sensualist Of Sound   

There is no dearth of films on musical personalities. But most of them are little more than listless recitals of facts about a given musician’s life and accomplishments. Often failing…

A Special Woman

Manjuben is a picture of hard work, independent judgement and a strong desire to be rich so as to be able to call the shots in her professional relations with…

Pushpa: beyond the “rule”

Not too long ago, certain sections of media would use phrases such as “non-baahubali” records to describe movie cash collections. Some went a step further in using terms such as…

Laapataa Ladies (2024) review

There has not been a dearth of films exploring feminist themes and having feminist content in recent times, and it may be observed that most of these films have found…

Zone of Interest

by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli Zone of Interest is a film that every German child should be shown at the age of 15. Yes, they will not understand why…

Oppenheimer’s victory at the Academy Awards

The comprehensive success of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer at the Academy Awards has genuine and far-reaching significance. The biographical drama about the life and career of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), known…

Poor Things (2023) review

Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest film Poor Things has just been released on digital and Blu-Ray, and this is a film I had been waiting to watch for a very long time,…

Groundhog Day, Aristotle and Communism

Exploring Aristotle's virtue ethics and Marx and Engels's communist individual through the 1993 movie, Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day (1993) is a classic of philosophical cinema. I was first asked to watch…

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon – A Review

Ridley Scott’s latest Napoleonic-era endeavor is based on the life of arguably the world’s most-studied King, Napoleon Bonaparte. Of course, it is titled “Napoleon”; as many autobiographies do but it’s…

The Killer (2023) review

David Fincher’s The Killer was one of the most anticipated releases of 2023. The favourable reviews from film festival screenings only added to the anticipation, and expectations around the film…

Naseem 1995 in India 2023

PM Modi said in a press conference that the religious minorities in India do not face any discrimination and that India’s democracy remains faultless during his infamous visit to the…

EO: Three Hooves up in High Heaven

Films featuring animals as screen filled protagonists, often in an imperfect, callous human world, have been made before.  There was Robert Bresson’s 1966 Au Hasard Balthazar, which introduced audiences to…

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