Sunil Pandey's directorial debut is almost content to play second fiddle to the great tradition of Bollywood romances that have raised the stakes by the deployment of memory loss as a plot device.
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Piyush Chhabra is a Ph.D Scholar of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He works on the entanglements between law and different media forms.
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, produced by Warner Bros., radically reimagines what can be done with a mummy film, bringing the character back towards its roots in body horror.
The recent re-release of the restored version of this film, directed by Pradip Kishen and written by Arundhati Roy, in theatres to packed houses should dispel any doubts about its enduring enchantment, or its relevance in the contemporary.
Hansal Mehta’s Shahid finds even greater resonance in the present, with the use of laws that advocate Shahid Azmi fought against becoming even more draconian than when he was alive.
Unlike its predecessor, the second season finds itself on much surer footing with what it wants to do with the abundance of the archive and delivers a poignant tale of belief over suspicion.
In an environment hostile to critical accounts of the Indian state, some filmmakers in Bombay cinema are turning to the legacy of popular film conventions and infusing them with sharp political commentary.
Most viewers arrived at 'Dil Se..' after listening to its songs on music television channels while growing up. When viewed outside its narrative, the songs seem like expressions of love in turbulent times. However, an unease sets in when it slowly starts to creep on audiences that this is not really a love story.
20 years on, Bunty Aur Babli's iconic song 'Kajra Re' remains one of those rare, lightning in the bottle moments that popular Hindi cinema produces, where a mix of cultural forces pull their weight together to create a phenomenon that completely captures the imagination of the masses.
American TV shows like 'The Bear', 'Somebody Somewhere', and 'Shrinking' make use of time and space in distinctive ways that highlight the value of long-form storytelling in narrating stories about death.
Charmed by the recently re-released Qayamat se Qayamat Tak, I ponder about the takeaways from the film, the state of film viewing, as well as film stardom.
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