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.
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Racism began with lighting itself, and dark complexes still run deep. But the true colours of India are finally beginning to speak
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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.
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Comedy is serious—and devilish—business in God’s Own Utopia. A quick history of laughter.
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The protean M.T. Vasudevan Nair also shaped cinematic imagination in India. The dialogue between his stories and screenplays here is stimulating.
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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.
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Reason, argument and a story—mapping the evocative and agitated contours of Naxalite imagination in Indian Cinema
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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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