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The eldest of the three brothers who run a small-time drug business under the guise of a pizza delivery shop ventures into film...
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May 4, 202121 min read
True story of the Satya man-Khalid Mohamed talks to Ram Gopal Varma
The Opening Reel What is your first waking memory, the first visual you have of yourself? The memory is that of a kid trying to open the...
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May 2, 20214 min read
Khalid Mohamed remembers The Master, Satyajit Ray, on his 100th birth anniversary, on May 2.
He was an acquired taste, still is. Because it’s a given, every mid-generation filmmaker of spleen in India salutes his memory. Sorrily...
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May 2, 20217 min read
My introduction to the world of Satyajit Ray by Mallika Bhaumik
I was dutifully introduced to the world of Satyajit Ray by my father. He thought like many others of his generation that, good education...
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May 2, 20215 min read
Chiriakhana: Satyajit Ray ventures into the detective genre. Dipankar Sarkar revisits the film
Chiriakhana (The Zoo, 1967) A nefarious act of crime in a detective film is, primarily, an inciting incident that is usually approached...
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May 1, 20215 min read
A Tale For Another 100 Years: Shilpa Ranade on recreating Ray's masterpiece GGBB!
On the occasion of the 100th birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray It would only be fitting to reflect upon the heritage of the work of the...
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May 1, 20211 min read
Filmmaker Anup Singh celebrates Ray's 100th, with a view from Punjab
Filmmaker Anup Singh pays a tribute to Satyajit Ray on his 100th Birth Anniversary. The article first appeared in The Sunday Tribune,...
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Apr 30, 20211 min read
Ranjan recommends Argentinian film, Invisible: A cinematic tour-de-force
When a teenage girl working at a veterinary shop in Buenos Aires discovers that she has got pregnant by the owner’s middle-aged son, she...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
Rishi Kapoor: a childhood gone by Sharad Raj
To be honest I had never imagined that Hindi movies one day will be without Rishi Kapoor. Despite being aware that death is inevitable,...
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Apr 29, 20213 min read
Irrfan and that phone call in "The Namesake" by Sharad Raj
If at any point in time and in any emotional or mental state, I am asked which is the standout performance for you from an Indian actor,...
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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 25, 20215 min read
Queimada: Gillo Pontecorvo’s political satire featuring a tour de force from Marlon Brando
Our Rating: 9.5 IMDb Ratings: 7.0 Genre: Action | Drama Cast: Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Norman Hill Language: Italian | Portuguese...
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Apr 23, 20211 min read
For the weekend Ranjan recommends a film from Guatemala: LA LLORONA
“Why are people saying bad things about grandpa on the internet?” asks an 8-year old to her mother, triggering a query that unsettles a...
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Apr 22, 20215 min read
Coutard of the Godard Fame (Part 2) by Surendar Chawdhary
[From Truffaut’s Softskin, Coutard had switched to discussing Jean-Luc Godard’d Breathless by the end of Part 1. “Every morning Godard...
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Apr 22, 20215 min read
Coutard of the Godard Fame (Part 1) by Surendar Chawdhary
(The legendary French cinematographer Raoul Coutard’s visit to the Institute in 1997 was for me an occasion to attend one of the most...
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Apr 22, 20214 min read
"Breathless" through luck, lust,wit and...Aditi Singh reaches out to Godard's debut feature
Breathless (À bout de souffle) 1960, France Director: Jean-Luc Godard Story: François Truffaut Cinematography: Raoul Coutard Editing:...
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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 16, 20211 min read
Ranjan says watching Malayalam film Akasathinte Niram is a rewarding expereince.
Despite its tacky beginning, AKASATHINTE NIRAM (The Colour of Sky, 2012, Malayalam) by Dr. Biju soon settles down into a languid and...
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Apr 16, 20214 min read
Tokyo Story: points of view and that phone call to the family by Aditi Singh
Tokyo Story 1953, Japan Direction: Yasujiro Ozu Screenplay: Yasujiro Ozu & Kogo Noda Cinematography: Yuharu Atsuta Editing: Yoshiyasu...
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Apr 13, 20219 min read
A Woman Under the Influence-Whose normal is it anyway by Vandana Kumar
In an orbit far removed from the big bucks and glamour of Hollywood, the 1950s and 60s New York created the milieu for filmmakers under a...
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