Motherhood became the common theme of the movies I watched in the 9th Pune International Film Festival. Among the 15 movies were my first Australian, first Ecuadorian, first Danish and first Russian (talkie) movies. The absence of subtitles for the English movies was refreshing. Overall the movies were better than the previous year’s, both in [...]
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Cultures in Conversation – Urban Legends
The May 2010 issue of UTV World Movies Magazine carried an article I wrote comparing Bollywood and Mexican Cinema with urbanization as its underlying motif. I am not very happy with it. I think essays of such kind need a person with greater expertise about the subject matter and with greater skill. My article reads [...]
LSD – A Mathematically Progressive Movie
The only thing I knew about Dibakar Banerjee’s Love, Sex aur Dhokha is that it originally had a five-minute sex scene which the CBFC cut to half. The last Hindi movie that I watched in a theater was Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D. I was mostly disappointed by it, mainly because I fail to understand the [...]
But For Gandhism
Himmat karne wAlonki hAr nahin hOti Three years ago Anupam Kher received a note that read, “You don’t belong to the category of heroes and lead actors, but we can’t not award you because that would draw everyone’s attention to our impaired judgment,” along with a Special Jury National Film Award. It was for his [...]
A Weekend With Guru Dutt
Chaudhvin Ka Chand is among the purest of Hindi movies I have seen, in terms of the language. Even though the movie opened with English titles, ladies before gentlemen, the only English words heard throughout were a few utterances of ‘municipality’, ‘doctor’, ‘inspector’, ‘judge’. There have been very many triangular love stories based on the [...]