Sonali Rajkumar Devnani's documentary, which had its World Premiere at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival 2025, unravels the exploitative labour underpinning faith.
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Cities are drawn by planners, but rewritten by people, through graffiti, sabotage, and spontaneous acts of defiance that turn ordinary spaces into living stories.
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 20 September 2025
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A coming-of-age story with immense possibilities flinches under its own emotional weight.
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 8 August 2025
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On his 45th death anniversary, remembering Mahanayak Uttam Kumar, who arrived at an uncertain, in-between time of grief and uprootedness in post-Partition Bengal, not just as a romantic lead but as the hope of a proposition: that life, even fractured, could be lived with absolute grace.
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 24 July 2025
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Pride Month Special | Little happened in Rituparno Ghosh’s films that the director hadn’t already lived through—or at the very least, felt in his bones—as is so often the case with the most honest art.
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 29 June 2025
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Pride Month Special | From Badnam Basti’s defiance to Fire’s blazing rupture and My Brother…Nikhil’s tenderness, these early films tugged at the seams of India’s carefully stitched silence around queerness.
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 23 June 2025
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There are different reasons behind the existence of slap stickers. Besides reclaiming the streets and promoting various businesses, they often run commentaries on political issues plaguing the cities they are found in
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 1 June 2025
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Momoko Seto's film is an allegory of displacement, resilience, and the will to root, even in the face of adversity.
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 22 May 2025
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Women’s anger in Hindi cinema, no longer confined to male validation, takes centre stage
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 7 April 2025
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Language is deeply political as it is a fundamental part of our identity. It doesn't just communicate ideas. It signals who we are, where we come from, and what we stand for.
BY Sritama Bhattacharyya 29 March 2025
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