Vince Staples’ latest is an unsettling allegory about how Black creativity and trauma are often consumed as entertainment; how the spectacle of Blackness is commodified even in spaces supposedly meant to honour it.
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Debiparna Chakraborty is a film, TV, and culture critic dissecting media at the intersection of gender, politics, and power.
He may not have lived to see his genius acknowledged in his own lifetime, but in the century since his birth, Ritwik Ghatak’s work has become exactly what he wanted it to be: a bridge between history’s deepest wounds and art’s attempts to heal them.
With Rituparno Ghosh, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, was emotionally naked. With Sanjay Leela Bhansali, she’s theatrically divine. With Ratnam, she’s human and very much fragile, furious, and fascinating.
The show, streaming on JioHotstar, is a missed opportunity. It had the chance to say something about the perils of being a girl in modern India; instead, it settles for the safe familiarity of a procedural chase.
Despite its cinematic clumsiness, ‘Dahini’ matters. The very act of putting this violence on screen—of demanding visibility for a horror that thrives in silence—is political.
The tonal range between slapstick, satire, and cringey awkwardness is what keeps Splitsville on its feet.
BIFF 2025 | Anoop Lokkur’s Don’t Tell Mother is both a love letter to childhood and an unflinching look at its shadows.
- The Ba***ds Of Bollywood Review | Aryan Khan’s Satire On Industry Glitz Bursts With Masala And Chaos
It is a high-energy, meta-driven opening hour that’s equal parts fun and exhausting, made for those who keep up with the Bollywood gossip brigade more than their family Whatsapp group dramas.
Freaky Tales unfolds as four interconnected narratives, each eccentric in its own way, stitched together by the looming presence of fascist forces.
Venice Film Festival 2025 | Grand Ciel is a commentary on the quiet brutality of capitalism’s dispassionate machinery, of disappearing worker rights, and the cost of countless human lives caught in the loop.
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