Indian newspapers have been around for a very long time. Some of them are even older than the Banyan tree behind your grandmother’s house in the village. While the tree gives shelter and reduce pollution, what worth do the newspapers have? When I read a forwarded article from The New Yorker or The Guardian, I [...]
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Movie Review: Flavors
Mr. are Mrs. Gopalkrishna come to USA for their son’s marriage with a white woman. They are strangers on a mission here, making a wholehearted attempt to welcome the new culture that their son has decided to marry. Mr. Gopalkrishna believes in his son and wants to hand over a parcel to his superintendent’s son [...]
Very Much Without Verisimilitude
First posted on Desicritics. Last week, I pondered about the director’s need to research about a subject that is an important aspect of his or her movie. Extending that thought process, I feel that verisimilitude is a quality that lacks in most of our movies. Everyone is doing a good job with railway stations. But [...]
Film Censorship
The CBFC doesn’t seem to have caught up with the Indian lifestyle, at least in terms of ratings. The board still gives the useless ‘U’, ‘UA’ and ‘A’ ratings. Why are they useless? To my understanding, CBFC’s mission is to categorize movies based on what categories of the Indian society each movie is suitable for. [...]