The old macho hero has been killed—it’s cinematic parricide. But the new Malayalam cinema’s ethical horizon has shrunk, with its temporal frame. Only space looms, menacingly.
Racism began with lighting itself, and dark complexes still run deep. But the true colours of India are finally beginning to speak
Girish Kasaravalli casts a macroscopic lens on how urban India recreates the feudal structures of the rural. The only difference? There is no way out of the city.
Comedy is serious—and devilish—business in God’s Own Utopia. A quick history of laughter.
The protean M.T. Vasudevan Nair also shaped cinematic imagination in India. The dialogue between his stories and screenplays here is stimulating.
Cinema, the site of endless possibility. Could there have been a better place to create our utopias? The ‘independence’ generation tried, then decades of the ‘nation-state’ experience brought in fatigue. Now the landscape is barren, selfish, but flowers bloom in corners.
Reason, argument and a story—mapping the evocative and agitated contours of Naxalite imagination in Indian Cinema
Fifty years. Adoor. A quiet opus where, into tight frames of the ordinary, there seeps in depth, and the universal verities: time, place, power, morality.
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