Biju Menon plays a highly respected lighthouse keeper in a small village in Kerala whose unabashed patriarchal heft and intimidating ways...

The Brats, Francois Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) The best way to appreciate an auteur and that distinctive stamp on his œuvre, is often,...

Madhubala, Nimmi & Dilip Kumar in Mehboob Khan's Amar(1954) I must confess that I tried watching Mehboob Khan’s Mother India (1957)...

Abhishek Bachchan & Ahilya Bamroo in Shoojit Sircar's I Want to Talk (2024) With ‘I Want To Talk’ (IWTT) we now have a means of measuring...

The year was 2018. My film was in post-production when Abhijit Majumdar, Head of the Direction Department at Whistling Woods...

Shumona Goel, Mumbai based artist, filmmaker Shumona showed Nikhil Arolkar and me her 20-minute film Atreyee in 2007. I just viewed it...

The semiotics of Charles Sanders Pierce was improved upon by Ferdinand De Sauserre. The status quo of semiotics is the Christian God who...

Woody Allen in autobiography, “Apropos of Nothing” talks and celebrates innumerable influences and experiences of watching diverse films...

Director Claire Denis reduces the plot of BEAU TRAVAIL to its minimum, choosing to narrate the events in fragments through the reminisces...

Written, directed, and co-produced by Jeremy Saulnier, REBEL RIDGE (US, 2024) follows ex-marine Terry Richmond's quest for revenge...

In May 1980, students in the South Korean city of Gwangju rose up in revolt against the country’s authoritarian government. A Seoul taxi...

MOONLIGHT (US, 2016) touches upon all the tropes that a film involving a black protagonist deals with: unemployment, drugs, hostile...

Despite having an open marriage, Vic (Ben Affleck) is jealous of his wife’s (Ana de Armas) affairs. As a series of mysterious...

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...

Based on the book of the same name SHE SAID by two New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor – played...

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...

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...

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...

Faye Dunaway in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) The first time I saw Hollywood star and actor Faye Dunaway was with Jack Nicholson in...

Ismat Chughtai Bollywood star autobiographies and biographies  are high in sales but low on telling the whole truth and nothing but the...