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A vernacular cinema from South India pioneered an experiment in science fiction like no other industry has successfully done by far. Android Kunjappan is, in that regard, a movie worth every laurel because it experimented with science fiction, but in a setup so rural that the house the robot dwelled in had literally no other... Continue Reading →
Perhaps the greatest of literature and art created on love are created on unrequited/forbidden love. There is an intoxicating quality about separation in unrequited love that is a comfortably recurring theme in literature because there’s so much to say yet so little that gets said. And there is beauty in this misery, humanity in pain... Continue Reading →
The mind numbing account of a newlywed Malayali bride obliged to internalize patriarchy through a laborious routine and how after all it is the story of thousands of Indian women is what The Great Indian Kitchen is about. The age old patriarchal norm consistently battled by women that attempts to lock women in the kitchens... Continue Reading →
In the quest of finding the extraordinary in the mundane, how mundane can you go? How far can you stretch your observation skill to grasp and depict the most intricate of human behavioural patterns? How varied and indulging, after all, can realism be? ‘Sometimes’ by Priyadarshan is perhaps as far as things go in terms... Continue Reading →
There’s simply nothing to not like about a movie featuring Dulquer Salman and Parvathy in lead manic pixie dust characters that forgo the norm and wander in search of an elevated sense of meaning. In the process, they end up finding one another – or one finding another – just as the audiences would want... Continue Reading →
(This essay is owned by E-Cine India Journal as a part of the Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Award for Best Film Criticism. This critical review was awarded the second best place and has been published in the journal uploaded on 6th of January 2020 on the E-Cine India website. Authored by yours truly.) Interfacing multiple elements... Continue Reading →
I don’t exactly make new year resolutions but the one to be binging on Malayalam movies in 2021 was made under the much welcome recommendations of a student who has breathed down my neck about it. I’ve watched just one Malayalam movie so far and that is Kumbalangi Nights, criticising which I managed to win... Continue Reading →
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