Having released in the backdrop of some suspicion from both right and left wings, partly  attributable perhaps to the recent track record of utterances of its makers the Balaji Motion Pictures and its key stake holders, the film The Sabarmati…

It was about four years ago on February 05, 2018 that I attended the inaugural reception of an art show at Santa Clara University in California. As  the show titled Beyond Borders: Stories of Im/migration focused on mass migrations was…

With emerging women of substance and a section of society surviving on the margins with dignity in the centre, Abhishek Shah earned a reputation in theatre during the decade. He straightened out his protagonist in his very first play with…

This new Gujarati film, Akshar’s Love ni Bhavai directed by Saandeep Patel merits special attention. The subject of love has been of interest to all, anytime. It was to Shakespeare, it was to Kanaiyalal Munshi, it is still to modern…

In the world’ s first fully oil-painted feature film, the artist’s paintings come to life with dream-like surrealism. Multitudes had been eagerly awaiting the screening of Loving Vincent at Mumbai Film Festival 2017 and greeted it with the most thunderous…

India’s official selection for the Oscars 2018, this 106-minute experience depicts the politics of elections and holds up a mirror to us, without once erasing the smile off our faces. If Anil Kapoor’s modest character in the film Eeshwar (1989)…

One of 2017’s most accomplished thrillers, ‘Sameer’ – a film inspired by the serial bombings in India– is replete with multi-layered plot narrations and irrefutably good performances. Made by a documentarian, the film pushes the viewer to change his/her perspective towards…

Even though the movie is talking about toilets, Director Shree Narayan Singh’s sanitation celluloid Toilet Ek Prem Katha (TEPK) is a creative representation of a social satire enveloped entirely around a romantic tale. A non-squeamish visual where the audience won’t…

In the times of infiltration, mass abductions and the rising tension between nations to wage fully equipped war on each other, Christopher Nolan’s immersive World War II drama, Dunkirk is a needed horror to reminisce the ruthless consequences that a war incapacitates. Shot…

Bahubali 2 : The conclusion is the second and final part of the two-part epic saga from Indian film Director SS Rajamouli. Five Years back what started as a regional production in Telugu, today has transcended every known boundary. The…

Being a point of reference with a distinctive identity in regional film-making, such as Marathi cinema has attained in the neighbourhood, is a far cry. It is heartening, at the same time, that a Gujarati film now in 2017, treating…

પવન ના સહવાસી છે પંખી ના પર સ્થિર હોય કે ફરફરતા, શું ફેર પડે છે … તારાજ તરફ વધવાના છે મારા કદમ થાકેલા હોય કે થરકતા, શું ફેર પડે છે … (verses from the film) Released on 13th of January…

  There are two ways in which regional cinema normally manifests; either the plot emanates from localized milieu or it takes up a universal theme and builds a regional context around it.  Each style has its own glowing examples, be…

Illustration by Ketu Gamit If you are a 90’s kid, your idea of the Jungle Book is what most of India loves and remembers. Doordarshan brought to your primetime slot, a heavily Hindi version of Kipling’s Jungle book, so much…

  Most of us seem to avoid it, be it someone else’s voice falling on our ears or the voice of our own consciousness telling us something. It is the easy way out. Escapism. We often feel that by not…