Early in Ranjan Ghosh’s Ahaa Re (2019), its lead protagonist, the suave chef, Farhaz, with Dhaka roots, entreats his friend and restaurant owner for a guided tour of the city of Kolkata where he currently has moved to for work.… Continue Reading
Due to recent pandemic, our cinematic interaction has stopped, but thanks to the OTT platform, we still get out a dose of entertainment. Different people have a different choice over kinds of cinema to choose, one of the loved and… Continue Reading
India is supposed to be home to one of the largest entertainment industries in the world. Despite the all-pervasive national influence of Bollywood or Hindi cinema, even the vernacular Film industries in the country have played a crucial role in… Continue Reading
“Pain demands to be felt.” This line in John Greene’s bestselling novel ‘The Fault in our Stars’, strikes a different meaning altogether in its adaptation in Mukesh Chhanra’s directorial debut Dil Bechara (2020). The reason being in its becoming of… Continue Reading
Talking about the western cinema, they always provide their audiences with fascinating, interesting and thought-provoking premises followed by their brilliant storytelling and impeccable visualization and “The Boys” is the recent addition to it. What makes “The Boys” so special and… Continue Reading
Love is, as we know, a mystifying and controlling potency. Love is something that strikes you like brain waves. It enchants you, demand you, shapes you into something different and, fabricates outright prodigious, though it’s virtually unanticipated. Love is a… Continue Reading
Dark is a sci-fi TV Series of German production by creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese best known for the movie Who Am I (2014). Expectations were at an all-time high coming into the third and final season especially… Continue Reading
The influence of cinema is different for each individual. One of the vital things that cinema does is introduce us to the world we don’t know much. Showcase the reality we don’t want to talk about and give us a… Continue Reading
Devashish Makhija’s third feature Bhonsle (2020), opens with highly contrasting images; as the Ganesh Chaturthi idols are being decked up in finery, the protagonist, who is in his sixties, Bhonsle (Manoj Bajpayee), methodically and neatly removes layers and items of… Continue Reading
Da 5 Bloods (2020) is Spike Lee’s new Netflix produced film covering the return of four African-American soldiers to the body of their squad leader and a deposit of gold they had buried in the Vietnam War. It was released… Continue Reading