In 1939, in Sutton Hoo in rural Suffolk, a widowed landowner, Edith Pretty, invited an excavator, a self-taught archaeologist and writer of many books on the subject, to dig burial mounds on her estate. She formed an unlikely friendship with him based on respect for his craft. Basil Brown was a simple, unsung, unheroic man ...
Sudhanshu Saria‘s psychological drama portrays the darker side of human insecurities with a tragic real world context while sensitively attempting to be brave in the face of mental struggles. Set in Darjeeling, Knock Knock Knock is the story of how two seemingly alike personalities strike what appears to be an unlikely friendship. Dada, an elderly Bengali ...
There are performers who can’t act if their lives depended on it, then there are mediocre artists who just about cut it. And then there actors who are so good they could go into hiding and take up another identity and we’d never know who they were. The last category is considered the best. But ...
Here’s a line up of best Hindi comedy movies on Amazon Prime Video to lighten up your weekend. Watch this space as we regularly update it with new titles. These films were playing as of August 28, 2021. 13. Fukrey (2013) Fukrey centres around four good-for-nothing teenagers trying to make easy money. It trails their ...
From Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland to Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, women filmmakers were at the forefront of the cinematic conversation this year. Here are some of the best movies of 2020, each a masterly work of art and deeply rewarding: 1. Hamilton Director: Thomas Kail Hamilton is unlike any musical that I have seen and ...
It wasn’t until being rejected for a role in ‘Dhobi Ghat‘ (2008) that the vastly talented Sharib Hashmi knew he wanted to pursue acting full time. A call from YRF’s Shanoo Sharma for a brief part in ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan,’ 4 years later, gave wings to his aspirations, turning things around forever. It was also ...
This is such a powerful and evocative title for a movie. It conjures up disturbing images. A woman is a whole, a woman is a sum total of all her pieces; she is a life giver, she can be a destroyer of many worlds; she breathes and soars and she can fold her wings and ...
Despite a dry spell of theatrical releases year around, there were quite a few interesting films, across genres and languages, that made it to OTT platforms this year. Here are some of the best Indian movies of 2020 worth your time: 1. Ram Singh Charlie There’s an irrevocable charm in director Nitin Kakkar’s Ram Singh Charlie, that ...
Each story in Unpaused is beautifully designed, minimal and effective in rendition, affirming a singular, universal truth about life with sensitivity and refreshing insights. A hypochondriac with a voice bot as a companion falls in love with a virus warrior. Dialectics at work. A woman on the verge of suicide decides to stand up for women preyed ...
‘Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful’, says Molly Ivins. It wouldn’t be wrong to say, that cinema, besides being a reflection of society is also a tool for satire. It is a tool for revealing the inherent hypocrisies of the world we live in, and an avenue for exploring the ...
(Updated: April 13, 2021) From Her to Once Again, here’s our pick of the finest romantic movies on Amazon Prime and Netflix: 1. Her (2013) Her gives us a beautiful and heart-touching look into the depth of human relationships. The movie is artistically beautiful and philosophically intriguing. Our values surrounding love are constantly questioned. We find ourselves ...
First Reformed. Is this a film? Or a peek into our many insanities, our dark recesses, our deep despairs and our longing for hope, our clinging to straws of light. “How easily they talk about prayer, those who have never really prayed.” What happens when you cling to despair for long, when it sucks on ...
Writer, director Rakhee Sandilya’s debut film Ribbon featuring Kalki Koechlin and Sumeet Vyas received glowing reviews from critics and audiences alike. She’s quick, candid and full of fire as she takes on our 15 rapid-fire questions. Read on! 1. What are you watching right now? Mrs. America, an HBO show on Disney+ 2. A director that ...
Here’s an interesting anecdote from Naseeruddin Shah’s autobiography And Then One Day about the time Shah wrote a letter to Gulzar saab convincing him he was ideal for the role of Mirza Ghalib, a film that never eventually happened. “While I was studying at FTII, the news that Mr Gulzar was planning a film on the ...
His debut feature Autohead, traveled across major international festivals garnering acclaim before releasing on Netflix worldwide. Director Rohit Mittal’s sophomore effort, Megalopolis, an allegorical film is yet another proof of his artistic brilliance. (For the keen, it’s streaming on Youtube). Mittal is one of the few indie voices defying stereotypes with his unconventional form of storytelling. His ...
Dipankar Sarkar
