Tag: india
Friday One Sheet: MADE IN HEAVEN
When I look at this key art for Netflix's Indian wedding planner series, Made In Heaven, I cannot help but hear Townes Van Zandt's mournful twang playing in my head: Send me dead flowers by the mail Send me dead...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Shepherds MARTIN SCORSESE'S WORLD CINEMA PROJECT NO. 4
Scorsese's Film Foundation once again teams with Criterion for another round of newly restored films of global significance.
Review: SHANTARAM, Australian Fugitive Flees to India, Becomes White Savior
Charlie Hunnam leads the sprawling series, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
Review: THAR, There's Blood on the Rajasthani Sand in Netflix's Latest Indian Thriller
A detective investigating a seemingly random murder in the rural Rajasthani desert turns out to be so much more in Raj Singh Chaudhary’s Thar. Nothing much happens in Munabao, a small town near the Pakistani border region of Rajasthan, but...
Review: THE SHEPHERDESS AND THE SEVEN SONGS
Directed by Pushpendra Singh, the luscious tale from India stars Shahnawaz Bhat, Sadakkit Bijran and Ranjit Khajuria.
Review: A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING Documents India's Student Protests with Poeticism
Payal Kapadia's documentary is a tapestry of grainy 16mm, archival and surveillance cam footage, beautifully capturing the spirit of youth and their undying idealism in the chaotic, uncertain times in which we live.
Woche der Kritik 2021 Review: HORSE TAIL (Kuthiraivaal)
Saravanan is having a strange morning. He wakes up from a technicolour dream of a verdant field that is both night and day simultaneously, with an itch in his tailbone. It turns out that overnight he has somehow grown a...
With Hindi CHHORI, CryptTV Aims to Remake Marathi Social Horror LAPACHHAPI
Released in India during the summer of 2017, Marathi social horror Lapachhapi (aka Hide and Seek) gained further attention through playdates at film festivals around the world, including the London Indian Film Festival. Now the film will be remade, according...
Friday One Sheet: In PAATAL LOK, The Media Is Just Another Weapon
In limited Prime series Paatal Lok, which combines intense crime drama with media muck-raking, the key art brings the weapons and the eyeballs. Design house, Rubarb, who frequently work with the streaming giants (e.g. Netflix's Narcos and Le Casa De Papel...
Rotterdam 2020 Review: NASIR, Stoicism in the Time of Assertive Hindu Nationalism
Tamil indie filmmaker Arun Karthick offers first-hand observations on the impact of Hindu nationalism.
London Indian 2019 Review: ARISHADVARGA Is A Labyrinthine Thriller Full Of Surprises
A movie producer has been murdered in an upscale bungalow in Bengaluru. Who is the culprit? No one knows, but a pair of unlucky would-be actors are the primary suspects, and it's going to be up to them and one...
Notes on Streaming: REVISIONS From Japan, THE DEFECTED From Hong Kong
Plus: Action-comedy 'The Man Who Feels No Pain' arrives from India.
Tribeca 2019 Review: AAMIS (RAVENING), A Forbidden Romance Consumes Star-Crossed Lovers
Set in the far northeastern Indian state of Assam, Bhaskar Hazarika's sophomore feature Aamis (Ravening) is a film unlike anything you've ever seen. A forbidden love story between a man and a woman separated by perhaps a dozen years, several...
HOTEL MUMBAI Interview: Director Anthony Maras on a Plea for Peace
On November 26, 2008, a multi-pronged attack of unfathomable destruction and carnage seized the city of Mumbai, India over three days. Amidst the chaos, unarmed common people of all faiths and races banded together to survive the terrorist onslaught. ...
Review: Shankar's 2.0 Cranks Up The Crazy, But Forgets To Make Us Care
It's been a little over eight years since Shankar and Rajinikanth's masterclass of cinematic insanity Enthiran created a small viral whirlwind with its over the top science fiction action and disregard for logic. The film made a buttload of money...
Mumbai 2018 Dispatch: Wrapping Up, Masterclass With Sean Baker, And Awards Aplenty
The 20th edition of the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star wrapped up on November 1st, and after about 48 hours of travel and 8 hours of sleep total in the days since, we're finally ready to put the...
Review: BASMATI BLUES, Brie Larson, Singing Scientist, Goes to India
By the time Donald Sutherland leads a song and dance number, kicking around gliding office furniture and extolling the virtues of capitalistic greed for "The Greater Good" -- which includes the should-be immortal line "Obi-wan Kenobi gave up to Darth...
The New Trailer For RAAKSHAS Promises A Dark Fantasy In The Indian Jungle
2017 was kind of a light year for genre films in India. There were a few stand out productions, but the general mood in the country was pretty tense, and that seemed to lend itself more toward either dramas or...
Review: Anurag Kashyap's MUKKABAAZ, The Tale Of A Boxer Fighting For What's Right
These are tense times in India, and that tension has been increasingly reflected in their popular art even when the art isn't necessarily about the sources or direct effects of conflict. The biggest source of enmity and division in the...
Trailer Time: Amit Kumar's MONSOON SHOOTOUT Gets a Unique Interactive Trailer
Following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, it's been a long road to Indian cinema screens for Amit Kumar's Monsoon Shootout. The film, which stars Vijay Varma as a rookie cop making a fateful decision, has...
