Drishyam 2

Drishyam 2, Jeethu Joseph’s follow-up to his 2013 blockbuster, Drishyam, begins with a criminal, Jose (Ajith Koothattukulam), running in disorderly haste chased …

God On The Balcony

Biswajeet’s Bora’s Assamese film, God On The Balcony, is inspired from the real-life story of poverty-stricken Dana Majhi from Odisha, who …

Avijatrik: The Wanderlust Of Apu

More than sixty years after Apur Sansar (1959), the final film of Satyajit Ray’s masterful Apu trilogy, filmmaker Subhrajit Mitra …

Meghe Dhaka Tara

In the late 1950s, a refugee family from East Bengal, victims of the Partition, struggle for survival on the outskirts …

Elippathayam

Unni (Karamana Janardanan Nair) is a middle-aged landlord somewhere in a village in Kerala. He is the radical opposite of …

The Incessant Transformations In The Cinema Of Ritwik Ghatak

This article is in celebration of my teacher’s 95th birth anniversary, which falls today on November 4th, 2020. The earth …

Shironam

National Award-winning production designer Indranil Ghosh makes his directorial debut with an action-filled narrative, Shironam, which means ‘headlines’. In the guise …

Puthum Pudhu Kaalai

A middle-aged man and woman surreptitiously decide to meet one another, a granddaughter is forced to stay with her estranged …

Going In Circles With Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray’s famous children’s film, Goopi Gyne Bagha Byne (1969), has a fascinating segment known as ‘Bhooter Naach’ or the Dance …

Chitegu Chinte

In the general elections of a fictitious country called Gajadweepa, a master political manipulator called TK successfully sets up film …