Devdutt Trivedi delves deep into Lars von Trier's Danish mini-series The Kingdom: Exodus( Season 3)
The latest offering from Lars Von Trier is the third season of his 1994 television series Riget, which was the Danish helmer’s only foray...
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Digital Cahier
Jun 26, 20222 min read
Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future: the Inadequacy of American Narrative Film by Devdutt Trivedi
In his interview with Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni equates the psychological with the physiological which he equates with the...
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Jun 7, 20213 min read
K.A. Abbas's Anhonee, subverting paradigms by Prof. Rashmi Doraiswamy
“Anhonee subverts many of the paradigms Abbas had set up in Awaara with regard to the ‘genes vs environment’ debate. Nargis is in a...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
Between MacGuffin and Transference: The films of Maya Deren byDevdutt Trivedi
is the empty signifier that carries the film forward. The actor embodies the MacGuffin as s/he emphasises the weight and gravity of the...
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Apr 21, 20213 min read
Kumar Shahani’s Var Var Vari: From signal to sign by Devdutt Trivedi
Cinema transforms the relationship between camera and object, to that of the relationship between the subject and the Self. Through...
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Apr 7, 20214 min read
30 years of Ahmaq: Devdutt Trivedi revisits this Mani Kaul mini series
Mani Kaul’s long television series Ahmaq, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece The Idiot, was largely rejected by the critics and...
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Dec 15, 20201 min read
Reading the Muslim on Celluloid: Bollywood, Representation and Politics a book by Roshni Sengupta
The question of how religious and sectarian identities are represented in Bollywood continues to be part of the psyche of Indians and...
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