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White God
2014, Hungarian with English Subtitles, 119 mins. Dir.:Kornél Mundruczó We now live in the age of man, dubbed the Anthropocene by scientists who argue that it all started in 1610 AD, using Christopher...
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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)
Dir.:Dibakar Banerjee Once you have seen Rajit Kapur play Byomkesh Bakshi on Doordarshan its difficult to get him out of the head.I remember the restless wait for the show to come on air, those were...
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Unlucky Plaza(2015)
Dir.:Ken Kwek “You have a gun?!But this is Singapore!!How can you have a gun?! “This line is repeated quite a few times in Unlucky Plaza. I have been living here nearly 3 years and have never had a...
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Rubbers
(Mandarin with English Subtitles) Dir.: Han Yew Kwang A Durian flavoured talking condom, an old couple whose romance started in school with birthday celebration involving condoms and a sticky condom...
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Rust And Bone
Originally posted on mostlycinema:Rust and Bone(Original French Title : De rouille et d’os) Dir:Jacques Audiard Ali takes Stephanie for a swim. Rust and Bone is gritty film mostly about “them”.I mean...
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Kaakka Muttai ( Crows Egg) ( 2015 )
Tamil with English Subtitles Dir.: M Manikandan I have a vivid memory of when I had my first taste of the famous Maggi noodles which now sit beside banned narcotics in India. Television had just...
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Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai ( The Catastrophe, 1987)
In Assamese Language with English Subtitles Dir.:Jhanu Baruah. A poor farmer toils hard to make ends meet. He dreams that his son will one day become a civil servant (“dipty collector”), and break out...
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Images/Reflections and a few stolen moments.
I present some magical moments I was very privileged to capture while on the shoot of Images/Reflections, a documentary on Mr Adoor Gopalakrishnan directed by Dr Girish Kasarvalli. This is a landmark...
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Ex Machina (2015)
Dir.: Alex Garland. This film pushes at the boundaries of the discourse on artificial intelligence at least in terms of what is happening in the medium of cinema, which rarely gets this intelligent....
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Our Sister Mambo (2015)
Our Sister Mambo comes with the tagline ”A Rojak of Relationships.Sweet.Spicy. Tangy”, it delivers on its promise without adding even a pinch of MSG.
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Qissa:The Tale of a Lonely Ghost (2013)
Dir.: Anup SIngh Punjabi with English Subtitles. The title of this film is evocative of a time gone by, of tales (Qissa/Kahania) being told in settings uninterrupted by technology, where the spoken...
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INSIDE OUT !
Guest Review by Adya Gupta, An 8 years old film buff and a budding writer based in Singapore.
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Garam Hawa ( Scorching Winds, 1973, Urdu with English Subtitles)
Dir.: MS Sathyu The opening shot of Garam Hawa shows Salim Mirza (Balraj Sahni) standing on a railway platform, bidding a family member goodbye. The train is going to Pakistan, carrying Muslims going...
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Chauthi Koot (2015) ( The Fourth Direction)
Dir.: Gurvinder Singh I am standing on a railways platform in the middle of the night. It is the beginning of winter, I am wearing a sweater but it it feels much colder, I am freezing to my bones....
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In Search of Famine ( Akaler Sandhane, Bengali with English Subtitles) 1980
Dir.: Mrinal Sen Akaler Sadhane (In Search of Famine) is a great introduction to the cinema of Mrinal Sen. It was made in 1980 when he was at the height of his powers. The film begins with the...
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Kapoor And Sons – A very brief case study of Bollywoods growth pangs.
As Tolstoy said “All happy families resemble one another, and every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”, and so is Mr Kapoors family, unhappy in multiple ways that is. Time is running out for...
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27 Down (1972)
Dir.: Awtar Krishna Kaul 27 Down is as beautiful, truthful and evocative as the trains of the Indian railways which serve as its almost constant backdrop. And it induces the same yearning, for that...
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Fandry
(2013, Marathi with English Subtitles) Dir.: Nagraj Manjule The title of this film means “pig” in Marathi. Jabya (Somnath Awghade), the young protagonist, comes from the lowest of the lowly classes –...
View ArticleKharij ( The Case is closed), 1982
Dir: Mrinal Sen Anjan ( Anjan Dutta) and Mamata( Mamata Shankar) lead a comfortable middle class life in the Kolkata of the 1970’s. They have a young son and they are in need of a live-in servant....
View ArticleMy TEDx talk on Cinema
Here is a TEDx talk I did recently which is a crystallization of my thesis that Cinema needs to become an integral part of our education system- lifelong! In my journey as a filmmaker this is an...
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