Enola Holmes, Netflix – She Might Just Be Your New Favourite Holmes Sibling
If you look at the team that put together Enola Holmes, it gives you an assurance – this is definitely going to be a fun ride. And a fun ride…
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Dolly Kitty Aur Wo Chamakte Sitare – Reclaiming Sexuality While Stumbling Along The Way
Our sexualities are huge parts of our identity. In this very gendered and restricted society that we live in, we’re forced within the boxes that are prescribed to us at…
Let’s Talk About – Auteur Theory
In very simple terms, Auteur theory is a theory of filmmaking in which the director is the most important and relevant person in the film. The director wields the camera…
Attraction To Power – An Essay On Anurag Kashyap’s Segment Of Lust Stories (2018)
(Contains Spoilers) “Belief formation is often contingent on the outcomes that you want.” This is a key feature of power taken from Noam Chomsky’s seminal lecture on the Psychology of…
Cargo – One Of A Kind With Its Quirky Take On Science Fiction And Mythology
There are very few sci-fi flicks that have spawned out of Bollywood, and they rarely ever become hits in India. This is not necessarily a reflection on the film, but…
Cargo – Trailer Talk
In one of the scenes, a person asks, “Toh yeh swarg hai?”, “Swarg aur nark jaisa kuch nahi hota” is the response he gets. Though, what actually happens after we…
Masaba Masaba – Finding Courage Can Be Chaotic Is The Takeaway From this Docu-Fiction Saga
Masaba Masaba, directed by Sonam Nair, is a fictionalised show based on the relationship between a mother and her daughter, and also their individual dynamics with the outside world. Starring…
Class of ’83 – Relies Heavily On Voice-Over To Cope With The Narrative, With Nothing New To Add
Based on ‘The Class of 83’ by Hussain Zaidi, this film is about a story of a tough, rigid cop with a tragic past, who creates an experiment with the…
Khuda Haafiz – Wants To Tick Many Checkboxes, Doesn’t Live Upto Any
Written and directed by Faruk Kabir, Khuda Haafiz follows a man’s journey of finding his wife who has gone missing in a strange foreign land after initially applying for a…
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl – Patriarchy Loses Repeatedly Against Talent And Aspirations
Debutant Sharan Sharma’s film about India’s first female combat pilot Gunjan Saxena is nothing out of the blue from what we’ve seen in the past with biographies. However, it does…