I loved the nightly power outages in India which was a fairly regular occurrence in the 1990s. The darkness would bring life to a standstill. No TV, no cooking, no studying, no reading newspapers. Every family member felt secure in the darkness, in a strange sort of way, to say what they really felt. Marathi film Highway ...
This is in continuation to our last week’s post (Marathi Cinema: Best Films Of The 21st Century: Part 1) on the must watch Marathi movies since Shwaas (2004), the film that sparked a revival of sorts for the Marathi film industry. 4. Natarang (2010) Director: Ravi Jadhav Every artist at some point in life has to ...
Gone are the days when we had one or simply no superhero movie release in a year. All the classics we’ve grown up watching — Spiderman, Batman and X-Men surfaced in wide gaps over the years. Things have changed now. Like Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan’s outings, comic book movies are now as humongous and respectable. Their ...
Films based on video games don’t have a good history. Over the years, numerous filmmakers have tried to stimulate the genre by infusing some novelty to the signature interactive experience. Of the dozen of adaptations, only Jake Gyllenhaal’s Prince of Persia: Sands of Time succeeded in delivering the goods though only to a limited extent. This ...
You might be a bundle of anxiety and, understandably so, before you set off to make your first film. Here’s some inspiration from the most brilliant and fearless voices in the indie space, for starters. Six indie directors share valuable insights and advice from their experiences for those venturing into filmmaking for the first time. 1. Sandeep ...
2016 wasn’t a great year for Malayalam cinema. Like Tamil cinema, it had quite a few promising projects which either turned out average or disappointing. In 2016, Malayalam filmmakers played a safe game with family dramas. Of course, they are great, among other Indian filmmakers, when it comes to making restrained inter-generational dramas. But, even the critically-acclaimed ...
(Updated: January 17, 2020) 2016 was a year when mega stars played outside their larger-than-life characters (Akshay Kumar, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan). It was the year when Bollywood found inspiration from real-life events (Neerja, Airlift, Aligarh, Dangal) to tell their stories, with enough cinematic liberties, at times. It was also a year when indie voices ...
It feels like yesterday when Leonardo DiCaprio won his first ever Oscar for an unalloyed, riveting performance in The Revenant. It’s Christmas again and another year is about to end as we head closer to the awards season. But before that, let’s do a quick recap of the best Hollywood movies that released this year. Best ...
(Updated: August 4, 2020) M-town’s rise over the past decade has been exciting, to say the least. But Marathi filmmakers raised the bar further in 2016, taking the industry to a whole new level. Marathi films have almost perfected the art of balancing audience expectations and critical scrutiny. The films set box office records in 2016 with ...
Most of us relate the word ‘animation’ to the colorful, digital imagery of Pixar/Disney movies. We can, of course, understand the appeal of these glitzy movies. The American studios’ talent in building rich, immaculate visuals is unquestionable. However, animated movies are not just visual entertainment targeted at children. They are not just made to give ...
Aamir Khan goes for gold in 2016. After Manoj Bajpayee in Aligarh, he delivers the finest performance of the year and his career’s best. His dedication to perfection is synonymous to his being but the physical transformation he went through for the character at this age is commendable. Staunch, fiery, intimidating and a man of ...
Shwaas (2004) was a landmark film in the history of Marathi cinema. It became the first Marathi film in 50 years to have won a National Award, after Shyamchi Aai. Shwaas was also India’s official entry to the Oscars in the foreign film category that year. Three of the past 10-12 Indian films submitted to Oscars were Marathi and ...
Ever since George Lucas made the disappointing Star Wars prequel trilogy, it didn’t seem like the franchise would make a return to its glorious form. But JJ Abram-directed follow up to the culminating chapter of the original trilogy The Force Awakens last year, brought the almost sunken ship back to life and how! The movie event ...
I love to understand and explore what goes behind making films, studying films that create profundity through visuals. Films which contemplate on our inscrutable emotions. Films that don’t shirk from the hard reality. But, every now and then, I return to films that cheer me up and are an instant, if only short-lived, cure for life’s ...
Watching the latest Disney film Moana, I kept veering off the storyline, engaging as it was. The breath-taking animation made me think, more than once, about how far can visual effects go before they become a trick? Here’s my question. Animation is (mostly) used to express ideas and worlds, building which in real life is near ...
Dipankar Sarkar
