A jailbreak and Clint Eastwood film is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
This is an old favourite from yesteryears, starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel whom he acknowledges as his guru in...
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Digital Cahier
Oct 23, 20221 min read
Night Train from China is Ranjan's recommendation for this week.
A young widow working as a prison guard who also helps in the execution of female prisoners – a job she does with absolute dispassion –...
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Digital Cahier
Oct 15, 20221 min read
"Pickpocket", from the east by Jia Zhange is Ranjan's recommendation
While most of his friends have moved on in life to become petty traders and turn legit, Xiao Wu finds himself trawling the streets of a...
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Digital Cahier
Oct 8, 20221 min read
A cocktail of murders, affairs & Chabrol is Ranjan's recommendation for the weekend
When a young girl is raped and killed in a small town, the suspicion falls on her art teacher who was last seen with her, giving her...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 30, 20221 min read
The radius of existence- Ranjan recommends Marathi film Trijya for the week
Hailing from a village, artistically inclined Adbhut Kale works as a reporter with a Marathi-language newspaper in Pune where he is...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Seemabadhha(Company Limited) of Ray is Ranjan's recommendation this week
‘All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries of mankind’, an elderly Tamilian colleague quotes from Joseph...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 16, 20221 min read
Horror-Sci-fi and racial prejudices, Get Out is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
Every once in a while comes a film that uses the conventions of a particular genre, not necessarily to subvert it but to put it to use...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 10, 20221 min read
A Cop & a killer film from South Africa is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
A special investigative officer teams up with a serial killer – both women – to crack down on a crime syndicate involved in child...
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Digital Cahier
Sep 2, 20221 min read
"Trapped" in Netflix, rescue this gem & go for it: Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
Set over a single night against the backdrop of a crackdown on protesters in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, this...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 26, 20221 min read
It's the crime detection genre from Italy that ranjan recommends for the week
13-year-old Yara disappears on her way from the gym in a small town in Italy. Her body is found three months later and one of the biggest...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 19, 20221 min read
A film from Chad is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
To negotiate a declining economy, a pool attendant at a luxury hotel is demoted to make space for his son by its Chinese manager Mrs....
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Digital Cahier
Aug 12, 20221 min read
A tale of Rawanda by Afghan-French maker Rahimi is Ranjan's recommendation this week.
A year ago, Afghan-French director Atiq Rahimi impressed us with his adaptation of his own novel – THE PATIENCE STONE (2012) starring...
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Digital Cahier
Aug 5, 20221 min read
Prayers for the Stolen from Mexico is Ranjan's recommendation for this week.
Deep in the interiors of Mexico, three adolescent girls navigate their lives under the constant threat of narco operators and human...
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Digital Cahier
Jul 28, 20221 min read
Find out all you wanted to know about Mark Felt but were scared to ask in Ranjan's recommendation
In Alan J Pakula’s ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) two journalists from the Washington Post bring down the President of the United States...
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Digital Cahier
Jul 22, 20221 min read
Aloners from South Korea, portraying urban loneliness is Ranjan's recommendation
ALONERS deals not with urban loneliness so much as it does with solitude, sought by a young woman working at a credit card call center...
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Digital Cahier
Jul 15, 20221 min read
Infidelity &escape: AV: The Hunt is Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
When Ayse’s infidelity is discovered and her lover killed in a surprise raid at his flat by her husband who is a cop, she runs home after...
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Digital Cahier
Jul 8, 20221 min read
All that a Filipino film needs is a "Gun and a Girl"! Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
At an undisclosed location a gun is manufactured illegally to carry out the assassination of an activist by the police, an assignment...
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Digital Cahier
Jul 1, 20221 min read
KUTTAVUM SHIKSHAYUM by Rajeev Ravi is Ranjan's recommendation
A daring burglary at a prominent jewelry store in a small town in Kerala sets the police to investigate all the usual red herrings till...
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Digital Cahier
Jun 25, 20221 min read
A film from Philippines is what Ranjan recommends for the week.
A bus full of dispossessed, agitating farmers disappears on its way to Manila; and a few days later a rare, protected bird in a sanctuary...
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Digital Cahier
Jun 18, 20221 min read
Moneyboys from Taiwan is Ranjan's reccommendation for the week.
Fei, a young migrant makes a living as a male sex worker in the big city. Three things upturn his life: he gets romantically involved...
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