Cinema

Shruti Das -November 16, 2020

The OTT platforms in India fear the looming danger of censorship after government’s new move Imagine watching Sacred Games – one of India’s most popular series – without Gaitonde hurling abuses at his friends or foes. Or, let’s imagine Munna Tripathi from Mirzapur without his lascivious liaisons. What if censorship on OTT platforms actually tries […]

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Shruti Das -November 9, 2020

Telugu film Gatham attempts to create a Hollywood-style thriller, but leaves no lasting impact “Every human being has a bit of a psychopath in him. But only a few bring it out and you’re safe as long as you maintain distance from them…Unless they knock on your door.” These lines appear on screen at the […]

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Shruti Das -November 9, 2020

Do films glorifying crime, sexism and toxic masculinity, impact society in a negative way? Film-makers plead that they have creative licence and can’t be held responsible for the fallout ‘Kkkkkkiran.’  This is how a man (read: stalker) calls the ‘love of his life’ in a 1993 Bollywood film, which went on to become iconic. Shah […]

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Shruti Das -November 2, 2020

The streaming platforms has emerged as an ever-important source of entertainment for those stuck at home “Cinema halls are opening up,” the breaking news read. For a minute, I was elated. But soon enough I wondered, ‘Am I really going to take the risk of sitting inside a movie theatre for almost three hours to […]

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Shruti Das -November 2, 2020

Kaali Kuhi, starring Shabana Azmi, tells the tale of an insidious age-old practice through paranormal lens An ancient well situated amidst a village holds horrors of the past. When dug open, by mistake, the haunting begins. This, to summarise, is what Terrie Samundra’s Kaali Kuhi’s(The Black Well)  prelude tell us. As the story proceeds, we […]

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Shruti Das -October 29, 2020

Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy, based on Vikram Seth’s 1993-novel of the same name, transports its audience to a world of its own When the first look of Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy released on social media, the netizens could not keep calm. After all, it’s not every day that Nair creates (screenplay by Andrew […]

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Shruti Das -October 27, 2020

Bollywood, in the last decade, has proved its worth in the horror genre. Here’s how Hideous prosthetics. Poor animation. Deafening background score. Creepy creatures. These are often used to describe the horror films Bollywood made before the 2000s – helmed mostly by the Ramsay brothers. But then came Ram Gopal Varma’s Bhoot (2003), and the […]

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Aatmza Raj -October 26, 2020

Lockdown and Unlock changed many things for B-town, and now the stars are reporting to work with new schedules and safety norms in place The Hindi film industry has started work again with unlocking 4.0. Filmmakers, actors, and movie crews are gradually discovering the new normal. Shooting schedules are following all the possible guidelines to […]

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