Oru Thekkan Thallu Case is Ranjan's recommendation for the week!
Biju Menon plays a highly respected lighthouse keeper in a small village in Kerala whose unabashed patriarchal heft and intimidating ways...
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Oct 203 min read
A Teenager’s Missing Heartbeats and Hindi Films by Sharad Raj
Woody Allen in autobiography, “Apropos of Nothing” talks and celebrates innumerable influences and experiences of watching diverse films...
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Sep 201 min read
A slow burn by Claire Denis is Ranjan's Reccomendation this week
Director Claire Denis reduces the plot of BEAU TRAVAIL to its minimum, choosing to narrate the events in fragments through the reminisces...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 131 min read
Recently added to Netflix is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
Written, directed, and co-produced by Jeremy Saulnier, REBEL RIDGE (US, 2024) follows ex-marine Terry Richmond's quest for revenge...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 61 min read
A Taxi Driver from South Korea is Ranjan's Recommendation this week!
In May 1980, students in the South Korean city of Gwangju rose up in revolt against the country’s authoritarian government. A Seoul taxi...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 301 min read
Moonlight is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
MOONLIGHT (US, 2016) touches upon all the tropes that a film involving a black protagonist deals with: unemployment, drugs, hostile...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 231 min read
Murders & marriage: Adrian Lyne's Deep Water is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week!
Despite having an open marriage, Vic (Ben Affleck) is jealous of his wife’s (Ana de Armas) affairs. As a series of mysterious...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 235 min read
Nishtha Jain lenses the farmers’ protests in her latest documentary: A review & an interview by Sharad Raj
Farming the Revolution by Nishtha Jain (2024) On 15th August 2024, as I packed up in the early hours of morning, I wondered why I...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 161 min read
Me Too & Marie Schraeder's SHE SAID is Ranjan Recommendation this week
Based on the book of the same name SHE SAID by two New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor – played...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 91 min read
Malayalam film Ullozhukku is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
As a bereaved young wife, along with her mother-in-law waits for several days for the rains to subside so that they can hold the funeral...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 21 min read
Paradise, the Indo-Sri Lankan film is Ranjan's Recommendation this week!
I am not sure if Sri Lankan auteur Prasanna Vithanaje had Satyajit Ray’s ARANYER DIN RATRI (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1970) in mind...
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Jun 174 min read
Cinema & Space, Woody Allen's New York by Sharad Raj
New York is a city of Broadway musicals and the Avanta Garde at the same time. From Bolero to Jazz and from Beethoven to bagels and...
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Digital Cahier
Jun 112 min read
Being Faye Dunaway: a short note by Sharad Raj
Faye Dunaway in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) The first time I saw Hollywood star and actor Faye Dunaway was with Jack Nicholson in...
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Digital Cahier
Jun 104 min read
Khalid Mohamed on the guts of the legendary Urdu writers Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hassan Manto to tell it the way it was in the Bombay film industry.
Ismat Chughtai Bollywood star autobiographies and biographies are high in sales but low on telling the whole truth and nothing but the...
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Jun 68 min read
Rembrandt, Crowdfunding, Film Heritage & Manthan by Sharad Raj
Abha Dhulia, Shama Zaidi, Shyam Benegal, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Naseeruddin Shah, Preeti Sagar & Prahlad Kakkar at Eros Cinema...
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May 267 min read
"Phas Gaya Sisyphus & the auteur from Mangalore by Ramchandra PN
Saumesh Bangera Saumesh Bangera’s cinema is a perfect manifestation of the phenomenon of democratisation of filmmaking since it got...
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May 255 min read
The era of long playing records & Hindi film music: Khalid Mohamed remembers his all time favorites!
Technology rules. Consequently, die-hard collectors of Bollywood music soundtracks are in a fix. That thrill of rushing to the closest...
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Digital Cahier
May 143 min read
Film scholar,Devdutt Trivedi reassesses Mani Kaul's cinema in his book "Cine-Interiors: The Films Of Mani Kaul." Svanik Surve reviews it
Mani Kaul is one of the few Indian filmmakers whose films kept exploring the ever-changing psyche of the Indian mind, giving rise to a...
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May 46 min read
Rewind to the maverick producer, Suresh Jindal, who was proudest of his collaboration on Shatranj Ke Khiladi, by Khalid Mohamed
Suresh Jindal ‘Hirsute’ is the description Sai Paranjpye and I had coined for him. With his abundant salt-and-pepper hair always brushed,...
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Apr 288 min read
Towards the non-bourgeoise tales from screen and stage:Amar Singh Chamkila and Lavani ke Rang by Sharad Raj
The two are completely different, the songs of Amar Singh Chamkila of Punjab and Lavani of Maharashtra. While Chamkila was a pop singer...
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