If there is one thing I learned about myself from Modern Love Chennai, it is that I unequivocally find autobiographical voiceover — even that of a woman — as ear-piercing as fingernails scratching a ...

60 Years of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless: Why The Film Was Ahead of Its TimeThe rest of the film follows Michel's evasion of law enforcement, and his romance with an American girl in Paris, Patricia ...

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, unlike recent Hindi historicals, is more action than words. Not much time is devoted to strategizing, politics, evil ministers and elaborate power-play. The characters are ...

To call Mani Ratnam a mainstream filmmaker is a bit redundant, because every (primarily) Tamil filmmaker is a mainstream filmmaker: Tamil cinema does not have an "art film" tradition, the way ...

Also Known As M.M. Kreem: 10 Hindi Film Songs By The Baahubali And RRR ComposerKreem's delayed public appearance feels both long overdue and a bit ironic considering he is no stranger to us, in a way ...

Abbas A Rahmath takes his time, building up the excitement for important sequences in Fight Club. This slow-burn effect is effectively used in many moments in this film (presented by Lokesh Kanagaraj) ...

The Top 10 films of 2020: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada CinemaI haven't included films released in December 2019 that I saw this year — else, I would have certainly looked at Girmit (Ravi ...

Who comes to your mind when you read the words “talented” and “actor”? If they’re white and middle-aged, they’re probably in Oppenheimer (2023). Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film is about ...

Mapping Seven Decades of Mumbai’s Film IndustryThe centrality of Andheri to the city's film industry over the last four decades has contributed to the idea of the industry belonging to its own bubble, ...

Mandaar begins with a truck of fish dispatched from the fictional sea-side village of Geilpur leaving for the marketplace. The next shot tells us that it has one fish less, as we see a close up of one ...

Every Shankar Film, RankedOn the other hand, we have the out-there entertainers, the directors who wanted to show you the seven wonders of the world for the price of a movie ticket. You'd begin, of ...

And it is ultimately lost to the machinations of the mind. It mutates into themes like morality, ambition, greed, grief and justice. The darkness of these themes allows for the kind of cheeky ...