Imtiaz Ali And His Visual Notebook On The Journeys Of Wounded Souls In one of the most emotive scenes of the 2015 Hindi movie Tamasha, the protagonist, Ved, a corporate employee who had a Image Source- blog.aaobihar.com break up with his girlfriend and on the verge of a...
Saeed Akhtar Mirza And The Lost City Chronicles Of The Deplorables In a dark night top angle shot of the 1980 Hindi movie, Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai shows the protagonist, a car mechanic named Albert Pinto, and his girlfriend, a private secretary named Stella...
Girish Kasaravallis’ Isles Of Feminine Alienation And Salvation Through Metaphors A haunting sequence in the 2002 Kannada movie, Dweepa, among many other stunning cinematic moments in the movie, is the protagonist, Nagi, takes on the furious rain and a bloodthirsty tiger, which has been...
T.V. Chandran, Realm Of The Obscured And Deplorables The 2001 Malayalam movie, Dany ends with a close shot of an epitaph that reads “Daniel Thompson, 1930 - 2000”, which painfully summarized the protagonist Dany’s life in minimal terms. The Realismo magico...
Govind Nihalani – Fury Of A Fist And A Violent Movie Camera Anant Welankar, a no nonsensical and tough police officer, and Jyotsna Gokhale, a romantic college professor, are having a good time at a posh Bombay restaurant in the early 80s. Even though Jyothsana protests...
Sudhir Mishra; Eleven Shades Of Desire In a conversation, Jean-Luc Godard once said about Robert Bresson’s filmmaking, “Bresson is remarkable because he is someone who, despite the violence involved, penetrates to the very depths of a human...
Gender Of The Eye: Aparna Sen, A Retrospective There is a great deal of difference between a woman filmmaker who makes movies for a living, someone who makes movies about being a woman. Apart from the dogmatic framework of feminist cinema, the latter...
Awtar Krishna Kaul, Losing A Self While Crossing A River When a writer, a painter, a sculptor, a musician, or a filmmaker leave the podium in a hurry, a quite untimely exit for his or her artistic endeavors, especially after coming up with a path-breaking work in...
Mani Kaul- Interludes Of A Wind Chime And An Invisible Man Every art form has certain parameters that make it essentially an art, and when it comes to cinema, these elements are always on a slippery platform. The question, what are the key elements that make cinema an...
John Abraham, Portrait Of A Lucid Messiah In her iconic essay titled “The Cinema of Tomorrow”, internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, Samira Makhmalbaf had envisioned a cinema that challenges and transcends political structures of power and...