The escalation is steady, old-fashioned, and deeply satisfying if you’re someone who misses commercial thrillers that trusted audiences to keep up.
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Debiparna Chakraborty is a film, TV, and culture critic dissecting media at the intersection of gender, politics, and power.
The History of Sound manages to handle grief and loss with lilting grace, particularly in its refusal to dramatise pain. However, the film remains far too emotionally restrained for its own good.
Through Manto’s lens, Bombay and its creatures went beyond what postcards or myth-making would have us believe. On his death anniversary, here is revisiting Manto’s Bombay of underpaid writers, inflated egos, drunken nights and studios that extracted labour while pretending to nurture art.
Ambiguity sets the tone for a season that thrives on misdirection, fake deaths, femme fatales and the familiar pleasures of the espionage genre where the world is burning, but the spy looks fantastic.
A hundred years later, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin reminds us that the most effective propaganda does not announce itself. And perhaps that is exactly why, even now, some would rather we didn’t watch it at all.
The missing women trope in Indian crime drama could, in theory, foreground structural injustices and institutional complicity. But in practice, these stories repeatedly retreat into the comfort of the simpler police procedurals.
If there was an award for the nicest, least terrifying serial killer, then Mrs Deshpande would win it hands down and this is sincerely meant in a derogatory sense.
Jigar Nagda’s film arrives at a moment of acute relevance as India faces an environmental crisis with rising pollution levels and rapid depletion of natural reserves fanned on by government apathy and greed.
The Godard that matters now, in this wreckage-strewn age of algorithmic filmmaking, is the one who dragged politics into the movie theatre like a live grenade.
Dharmendra’s tenderness revealed itself without any threats to his masculinity. He adapted himself throughout his 65-year-long career as both a product and creature of the times he lived through.
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