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Amazon Prime Video, the digital platform arguably responsible for the best Indian streaming shows to date, has unveiled its upcoming lineup with 8 new Indian original series to look forward to.  Along with these, the platform has also announced new seasons of its popular show including Mirzapur S2, Inside Edge …

Perhaps expecting the commercial Indian LGBTQ film to be vastly different from the commercial Indian film is a recipe for disappointment. While the fight for LGBTQ rights veers towards the radical- rethinking concepts of marriage, and family- its commercial attire is very much conventional. This isn’t a bad thing, per-se.  …

Self-doubt, transformation and acceptance both beautiful and heartbreaking… here are a few diverse examples of the ‘mirror’ shot to understand how Malayali filmmakers are using it to convey deeper meaning without relying heavily on words.   Lucifer One of the reasons why one can argue that Prithviraj’s Lucifer is more than …

Self-doubt, transformation and acceptance both beautiful and heartbreaking… here are a few diverse examples of the ‘mirror’ shot to understand how Malayali filmmakers are using it to convey deeper meaning without relying heavily on words.   Lucifer One of the reasons why one can argue that Prithviraj’s Lucifer is more than …

First order of business- let me clarify what I mean when I say ‘dance film’.  A film where the protagonist is a dancer, and where the plotline heavily involves using dance towards a purpose – from solving marital issues (Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi), redeeming a mother’s lost pride, class …

Streaming On: Netflix When Sex Education arrived last year, minds were blown in the way physical relationships were presented with heart and humour. It wasn’t a sex comedy, it wasn’t a dark erotic trip but just a very real and human approach to problems and pleasures of intimacy. By the …

All individual stories in Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe begin with a confrontation: the confrontation of transwoman Shilpa/Manickam with her estranged family, the confrontation of adultery in the Vembu/Mugil story, and the mother/son confrontation in Leela’s household. My focus here is the sequence where Soori is distraught after sighting his mother …

Naezy makes music with a message. The rapper has often spoken about creating “conscious hip-hop” that tackles social and political issues, through songs such as ‘Haq Hai’ and ‘Azaad Hu Main’. We met him after the release of his new 6-track album, Maghreb, and, at a time when protests against …

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The trailer for the (new?) Love Aaj Kal is here. For reasons unknown, writer-director Imtiaz Ali has decided to give the spin-off/follow-up/sequel to his 2009 film the exact same title. Expect much confusion and Googling nightmares in the coming years. That film starred Deepika Padukone and Saif Ali Khan. This …

It has been a while since Sukhwinder Singh has sung a Tamil song, and I am curious to find out if he’s in Chennai to record one. He has sung in diverse styles — the plaintive Jaane Tu Mera Kya Hai (Jaane Tu … Ya Jaane Na), the Hindi bluegrass …

Director: Navjot Gulati Cast: Sunny Singh Nijjar, Sonnalli Seygall, Supriya Pathak I know that it’s hard to feel sorry for me. I speak from a place of privilege. After all, I watch movies for a living. But sometimes the films I endure are so downright awful that I feel it’s legitimate for me to …

Director: Navjot Gulati Cast: Sunny Singh Nijjar, Sonnalli Seygall, Supriya Pathakak With a running time of a brisk 105 minutes, Jai Mummy Di is approximately 103.5 minutes too long. The 1.5 minutes in which we sense the slightest semblance of harebrained entertainment is an afterthought – an epilogue featuring cameos from …

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Cast: Jamie Foxx, Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson Just Mercy is a thoughtful meditation of the nature of compassion and cruelty. It’s a startling reminder that human beings are capable of both extremes. The film has been adapted from the memoir of Bryan Stevenson, a Harvard-trained …

Director: Sam MendesCast: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Colin Firth, Andrew Scott Life’s cruellest irony lies in how war – the black hole in the galaxy of state-sponsored violence – is anti-human but pro-cinema. The war movie is widely considered as the definitive measure of filmmaking prowess. For decades, …

Director: Sam Mendes Cast: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth First you should know that 1917 is the most anxiety-producing film I’ve seen in a few years. At least twice, I gasped out loud. The tension was so thick that for the first hour, my hand …

Poetry is the salve and the weapon to fight back against tyrannical regimes in bleak times. As countless citizens around the world take to the streets, armed only with grit and words, the role of a wordsmith to interpret the surrounding chaos, lend voice to the oppressed or to simply …

Arati Kadav wants to tell magical stories. “If you’ve ever entered Disneyland and your eyes have widened – I want to give that experience to people,” says the independent filmmaker. She’s well on her way to achieving that with her first feature Cargo, an ambitious sci-fi film set in space, being selected …

Director: Siddique Cast: Mohanlal, Arbaaz Khan, Anoop Menon Director Siddique, who also wrote Big Brother, seems to like jotting down ideas as and when he gets them. Some of his better ideas (and films) were, perhaps, those that may have come to him in the light of day, when things …

When you want to placate the current sensibilities of the nation using 17th century popular historical narratives, you get Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior. The movie’s disclaimer in the beginning warns us that incidents, events, and characters would be altered, which would have been fine had it been limited to some …

When released in 1994, Mahanadhi was considered a Sivaji Ganesan-type tearjerker, and it met with a very mild reception. After close to 25 years of the film’s release, I decided to revisit it, owing to a very intense epiphany I experienced during a morning commute to office. As an upright …

It’s a big year for filmmaker Kabir Khan. Next week, he has The Forgotten Army – his first web show for Amazon Prime India – up for release, and a couple of months later there’s 83, easily one of the most anticipated films of the year. Interestingly, Khan wanted to direct The Forgotten Army as a …

Director: R. S. Durai Senthilkumar Cast: Dhanush, Sneha, Mehreen Pirzada, Naveen Chandra, KPY Satish You go to a masala film because you already know what is going to happen in the end — the hero wins. Say, like in Pattas, you have Thiraviyaperumaal (Dhanush), a virtuous father wrongfully slain; a …