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History, a ‘green screen’ game

In fact, Arcurea also explored creative ways for archival films, or images or sound to reach and engage with the public. ...

14.04.2024 20

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Looking for Mr Ray

It now has metro stations named Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, and my respect for the city shot to the stratosphere ...

07.04.2024 30

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Impact: After-life of films

Congratulations also to Laura Longobardi and Laila Alonso Huarte, Festival Editorial Co-Directors, and Jasmin Basic, Head of Fiction Programme. ...

31.03.2024 10

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In the underbelly of India

His debut, Love and Shukla, (shot on a 5D camera in 10 days), was in the Busan Film Festival. Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

24.03.2024 10

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Autopsy of marriage

While being a solid, nuanced, feminist autopsy of the institution of marriage, its format is a murder mystery that is as much a whodunit as a...

17.03.2024 30

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Stunning Zone of Interest

The film opens and closes with a black screen, in which we hear sounds from the camp and strain to make out what they are ...

10.03.2024 20

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Weaponising silence

Vinothraj’s screenplay and direction radiate assurance in this powerfully feminist film Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

03.03.2024 10

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Shambhala: Mystic journeys

Its selection is also a historic landmark for South Asian cinema, the first time a Nepali film has made it to the Berlinale Competition ...

25.02.2024 10

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Fable for our times

At its core, the film has a heart-warming Ken Loach-like concern about class differences and feudal exploitation, but these are intertwined with...

18.02.2024 7

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South Asia packs a punch at Berlinale

Raam Reddy’s The Fable is in the prestigious Encounters section. Siddartha Jatla’s In the Belly of a Tiger and PS Vinoth Raj’s Kottukkaali (The...

11.02.2024 9

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Goddess in a trap

But on reviewing the film again recently, I was equally powerfully struck by the foot massage scene Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

04.02.2024 7

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Top 20 Indian films to watch in 2024

Chiyaan Vikram and Parvathy Thiruvothu star in this period film on the British exploitation of tribals, and land grab in order to mine gold. Produced...

28.01.2024 10

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Top20 South Asian, diaspora films 2023

Woman director Bilal, women producers Apoorva Bakshi and Bilal. Illustration/Uday Mohite Here’s my #Top20 South...

21.01.2024 10

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Top 20 South Asia, diaspora films 2023

Mindy Kaling, Dev Patel are Executive Producers. Woman director; women producers Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe Illustration/Uday...

14.01.2024 10

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SMD Top 20 All-India Films of 2023

Berlin Film Festival (Panorama); Best Film, BAFICI- Argentina, Dharamshala film festivals (FFs). Woman director and producer ...

07.01.2024 10

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Smd top 20 Indian 2023, South Asian Films

On how the politics of fear—as well as religion and the state—can stoke suspicion, leading to violence. Evokes many worlds; hyperlocal but...

31.12.2023 10

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Amma’s art: Sky within

I had planned to gift it to her on her birthday, but gave it to her right away instead. Each day is a bonus for all of us; at 96, more so ...

24.12.2023 10

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Joram’s wolves...are us

Now it’s up to us to make good ‘independent’ films succeed—or be swamped with high testosterone, violent spectacles. Don’t miss this...

17.12.2023 20

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Power of Ambedkar

Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Babasaheb Ambedkar, was a legal luminary, economist, journalist, social reformer, and chief architect of the Constitution...

10.12.2023 10

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Kastoori: The scent within

Made in Marathi and dubbed in Hindi, it will be released widely at least in Mumbai, Maharashtra and Delhi, and will be available on Bookmyshow ...

03.12.2023 9

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Goa: Guns and bulbuls

It is a dream job in many ways, even though I have to go through increasingly higher volumes to seek those relatively limited very good films ...

26.11.2023 10

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Festival chauffeurs

Soon he stopped outside a local police station. One minuta please, he said. Then I realised he was an off-duty cop!  Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

19.11.2023 10

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Other Diwalis

And I was reflecting on the other Diwalis that we can treat ourselves to year round, but often don’t.  Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

12.11.2023 10

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Exquisite rapture

Observe the arduous journeys artists’ teams must undertake, in order to protect independent voices. Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

05.11.2023 10

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Amma goes to Ajanta

Amma readily agreed to the trip, trusting that Akku and I would sort out whatever needed to be sorted out. Illustration/Uday Mohite ...

29.10.2023 7

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Mrinal Sen: Cinema of provocation

Always Being Born: A Memoir, first published by Stellar Publishers in 2004, was republished by Seagull Books this year, as part of Mrinal Sen’s...

22.10.2023 30

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Mrinal Sen: ‘Eccentric, irresponsible adult’

Mrinal Sen has a body of about 34 films; many were acclaimed at the Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals, and worldwide Illustration/Uday...

15.10.2023 10

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A Road to a Village

This is a remarkable achievement by filmmakers in relatively small nations with challenging economies and film infrastructure, shining bright...

08.10.2023 10

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The Monk and the Gun

The Kingdom of Bhutan changed dramatically in 2006, when the monarchy gave way to democracy, internet, television and more Illustration/Uday Mohite...

01.10.2023 30

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The world is family—is it?

She makes his father promise he won’t die before her; and as fate would have it, she passes away first, then his father. Illustration/Uday Mohite...

24.09.2023 10

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Mixed-up brides

It got standing ovations at two screenings at TIFF, leaving no one in doubt about the deep chord it touched in an international audience. ...

17.09.2023 10

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What shaadi?

Shefali Bhushan is co-director, co-writer and producer on the series, and his wife. Illustration/Uday Mohite Jayant Digambar...

10.09.2023 20

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