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KASTOORI: CINEMA, DIGNITY AND SELF-RESPECT
Binod Kamble’s film Kastoori begins with a stark scene of cleaning a dirty toilet. Utpal Datta explores its portrait of marginalised lives, human dignity, social discrim...
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WHEN INDEPENDENT FILMS FIND THEIR AUDIENCE
From festival screenings to public platforms, WIFF Mumbai celebrates a defining moment as its films travel wider. Vinta Nanda reflects on Varun Tandon’s Thursday Special...
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MOVIES: WHEN MEMORY BECOMES A COMPANION
When Memory Becomes a Companion is Utpal Datta’s meditative reading of Hamsafar, a silent Marathi short film that transforms an everyday object into a vessel of love, lo...
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MOVIES: A STARK MIRROR OF EXPLOITATION
In this powerful review, critic Utpal Datta examines The Untold Agony, revealing how Jayram Waghmode’s forty-minute Marathi short merges fiction with documentary realism...
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MOVIES: A GENTLE DOWNPOUR OF INDIE SUCCESS
Ritopriyo Saha’s short film Chhoti Baarish (Little Rain) is creating ripples across the global festival circuit — from Bangalore to Toronto — marking the ris...
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MOVIES: INDIA PREMIERE OF JESUS IN SIGN LANGUAGE
A groundbreaking cinematic milestone, JESUS premieres in India, breaking barriers with American and Indian Sign Language, Hindi dubbing, and English subtitles—uniting De...
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MOVIES: DANCE OF PUPPETS AND DESIRE
Suman Mukhopadhyay’s Putulnacher Itikatha adapts Manik Bandopadhyay’s classic novel with sensitivity and cinematic depth, bringing alive its conflicts of reason an...
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MOVIES: SUCH A FALL FROM GRACE
Khalid Mohamed, once a cheerleader of Mani Ratnam, is taken aback with Thug Life, the auteur’s fall from grace. “More for my sanity, than for anyone else’s, ...
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MOVIES: POISE WITHOUT EMOTIONAL ENTRY
Billed as a tribute to Rituparno Ghosh, Indradeep Dasgupta’s Grihapravesh does not lack ambition and scale. But the effort shows, and the film never comes together as a ...
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MOVIES: WHY THIS ADVENTURE FAILS
A scathing critique of Sonar Kellay Jawker Dhan by Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, exploring how lack of imagination, poor execution, and hollow nostalgia destroy the potential of a o...
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