A Taxi Driver from South Korea is Ranjan's Recommendation this week!
In May 1980, students in the South Korean city of Gwangju rose up in revolt against the country’s authoritarian government. A Seoul taxi...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 30
- 1 min
Moonlight is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
MOONLIGHT (US, 2016) touches upon all the tropes that a film involving a black protagonist deals with: unemployment, drugs, hostile...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 23
- 1 min
Murders & marriage: Adrian Lyne's Deep Water is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week!
Despite having an open marriage, Vic (Ben Affleck) is jealous of his wife’s (Ana de Armas) affairs. As a series of mysterious...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 16
- 1 min
Me Too & Marie Schraeder's SHE SAID is Ranjan Recommendation this week
Based on the book of the same name SHE SAID by two New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor – played...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 9
- 1 min
Malayalam film Ullozhukku is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
As a bereaved young wife, along with her mother-in-law waits for several days for the rains to subside so that they can hold the funeral...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 2
- 1 min
Paradise, the Indo-Sri Lankan film is Ranjan's Recommendation this week!
I am not sure if Sri Lankan auteur Prasanna Vithanaje had Satyajit Ray’s ARANYER DIN RATRI (Days and Nights in the Forest, 1970) in mind...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 23
- 1 min
Ranjan Recommends a Malayalam film for the week.
Post-performance of a well-appreciated play, the sole actress of the group (played impressively by Zarin Shihab) is groped in her sleep...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 16
- 1 min
Japan & its families: The tale continues. This week Ranjan Recommends Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata.
TOKYO SONATA’S plot kicks off as a regular salaryman loses his job to cheap Chinese workers but hides the news from his family....
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 8
- 1 min
Mendoza, long take & crime in the Phillippines is what Ranjan Recommends for the week!
A young cell phone snatcher kills its owner and is subsequently arrested. While the grandmother of the thief tries to raise money for his...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 1
- 1 min
Ranjan Reccomends Tarantino & his Inglorious Basterds for the week!
In this post-truth world where everything is suspect, where emotion scores over facts and vicious disinformation proliferates under...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 23
- 1 min
Kinatay & the Filipino underbelly is what Ranjan Recommends to us for the week!
A newly-married 21-year-old student of criminology in need of money is roped in for a clandestine operation one night by a criminal...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 16
- 1 min
It is a Justine Triet film that Ranjan Recommends for the week.
Victoria is a Paris-based criminal lawyer with two kids. As she goes about her days, she has to juggle between fighting her ex-husband...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 10
- 1 min
Ranjan Reccomends a Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons drama for the week
A socialite woman (Glenn Close) sinks into irreversible coma and her dissolute husband (Jeremy Irons in an Oscar-winning role) is accused...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 2
- 1 min
A gorgeous film from China is Ranjan's Reccomendation this week.
A young motorbike courier and small-time crook in search of his lost love forms the core of the plot of Lou Ye’s SUZHOU RIVER (2000,...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 27
- 1 min
Agnes Varda's The Beaches of Agnes recommends Ranjan for the week.
This is an autobiographical essay by the legendary French filmmaker Agnes Varda made to commemorate her 80th birthday in which she traces...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 19
- 1 min
Leave No Trace is Ranjan's Reccomendation for the week.
Will, a war veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), lives illegally in the reserved forest with his teenage...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 12
- 1 min
Casa Grande: An assured cinematic hand is Ranjan's Reccomendation for the week
As the fortunes of a wealthy family in Rio de Janeiro crumble, its teenage son Jean must come to terms with it; but unlike his parents...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 15, 2023
- 1 min
Minimalism & memories and a Thai film is Ranjan's Reccomendation for the week!
A young woman, Jean returns to Bangkok from Sweden after three years, inspired by the ideas of minimalism and undertakes to de-clutter...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 8, 2023
- 1 min
Another gem from Darbhanga is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week!
POKHAR KE DUNU PAAR (2022, Bihar) deals with a young couple who had eloped to Delhi but are forced to come back to their hometown in...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 17, 2023
- 1 min
It is a Michael Hanake film as Ranjan's Recommendation for the week!
Comprising several characters whose lives intersect in Paris through an unfortunate incident involving the insult of Maria, a homeless...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 3, 2023
- 1 min
An American indie is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week.
American indie cinema has always thrown up surprises at regular intervals. This time it is TO LESLIE (2022), based on a true account of a...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 27, 2023
- 1 min
Checkout this ' gold rush' on Netflix recommended by Ranjan
A twisted tale surrounding the theft of gold bars smuggled from Dubai to Kochi is what Mridul Nair’s KASARGOLD (Malayalam, 2023) is...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 20, 2023
- 1 min
Night Moves & their consequences is what Ranjan wants us to savor over the week
In the guise of a thriller NIGHT MOVES (US, 2013) depicts the efforts of three young radical environmentalists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 13, 2023
- 1 min
Corporate world & Fair Play? Well, check out in this week's Ranjan Reccomendation
Quite strangely, while watching FAIR PLAY (US, 2023) by debutant Chole Domont, I was reminded of Satyajit Ray’s MAHANAGAR (1963). In the...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 6, 2023
- 1 min
Ranjan Reccomends an American-Iranian film for the week!
What seems like a desolate industrial town serves as the setting for this atmospheric film peopled with drug addicts, drug dealers,...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 30, 2023
- 1 min
Ranjan Reccomends a movie from my favourite genre for the week:Highway Dragnet.
A taut noir at 1.10-hour, HIGHWAY DRAGNET (1954) by Nathan Juran follows the travails of Richard Conte, a WW2 veteran who is on the run...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 22, 2023
- 1 min
A brilliant Kieslowski film is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week!
In BLIND CHANCE (Poland, 1987), Krzysztof Kieslowski’s biting criticism of Communist Poland did not go down well with the authorities; so...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 15, 2023
- 1 min
A ligh hearted tale of Malayalees in Bangalore is Ranjan's Reccomendation for the week!
We knew about the North Indians’ obsession with Mumbai or the Punjabis’ fixation on Canada but weren’t aware of the fascination the city...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 8, 2023
- 1 min
Ranjan recommends a personal favourite, Fatih Akin's The Cut
Unlike the Holocaust and other disturbing moments in history, the Armenian genocide under Ottoman rule during the First World War has...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 1, 2023
- 1 min
This week Ranjan Recommends a war drama, 'Filip' from Poland
It is 1943 Europe and any foreigner engaging romantically with a German woman is viewed as causing harm to racial purity – a sacrilege...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 25, 2023
- 1 min
A Fahad Fasil film is Ranjan's recommendation this week.
This is quite a bewildering narrative in the sense that it packs in several stories that are woven around a main plot involving a...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 18, 2023
- 1 min
Ranjan recommends a melancholic experience for the week from Belgium
Cassandra is a 26-year-old flight attendant working at a low-cost airliner, consumed with grief from her mother’s death in an accident,...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 11, 2023
- 1 min
It is Thai food in a film that Ranjan Recommends for the week!
A young girl who cooks for a roadside food joint run by her family is inducted into the employment of a famous chef in Bangkok known for...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 4, 2023
- 1 min
Östlund's Force Majeure is Ranjan's recommendation for the weekend!
There comes a moment in everybody’s life when an incident that one had not anticipated a moment ago assumes momentous significance – even...
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Digital Cahier
- May 6, 2023
- 1 min
The thrill of watching an Egyptian spy is what Ranjan wants you to experience this week.
When Adam, a fisherman’s son gains a scholarship to Cairo’s Al-Azhar University he is delighted; after all, the university is known for...
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Digital Cahier
- Apr 28, 2023
- 1 min
NANPAKAL NERATHU MAYAKKAM : Ranjan recommends this Lijo, Mammootty film for the week
James, the belligerent leader of a Malayalee group wakes up from his afternoon slumber inside the bus that they have hired to take them...
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Digital Cahier
- Apr 21, 2023
- 1 min
Promising Young Woman is Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
Years ago, a young medical student killed herself after being sexually harassed by her batchmates at a private party. The culprits have...
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Digital Cahier
- Apr 14, 2023
- 1 min
The professionals- a western to look forward to is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
Despite being eclipsed by the other significant Westerns of that time, THE PROFESSIONALS (1966) continued to stand on its feet, mainly...
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Digital Cahier
- Apr 7, 2023
- 1 min
Serbia, war, a mother & a daughter is what Ranjan's recommendation about
An octogenarian Serbian lady who had fled the horrors of WWII and migrated to Mexico is still haunted by its memories. Her granddaughter...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 31, 2023
- 1 min
'Summer Hours' of death, funeral & family is Ranjan's recommendation
Siblings gathered around the occasion of the death of a parent at their ancestral house has been a familiar setting to spark off...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 24, 2023
- 1 min
Rekha: Pushing the envelope, is Ranjan's recommendation
A woman wronged, embarked on a revenge trip has always been a popular thriller template. Malayalam filmmaker Jithin Issac Thomas reduces...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 17, 2023
- 1 min
A masterpiece from Philippines is Ranjan Das's recommendation for the week.
Love, betrayal, and revenge form the core of this astounding film from the Philippines. Set in a Manila slum where poverty impinges upon...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 10, 2023
- 1 min
Painting life with small strokes, is what this Ranjan's recommendation all about
In a small seaside town somewhere in Japan, a young ex-sex worker works at a roadside restaurant. When she is not working, she...
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Digital Cahier
- Mar 4, 2023
- 1 min
Swiss watches and Unrest: Ranjan's recommendation for the week!
Set against the clock manufacturing industry in a small Swiss town in the 1870s, UNREST (Switzerland, 2022) deals with the brewing...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 25, 2023
- 1 min
A small town in Mexico forms the backdrop of Ranjan's recommendation this week
Crumbling small towns seeped in inertia have always exuded a cinematic charm that could be deceptive. In the hands of debutant Carlos...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 18, 2023
- 1 min
Of Gods and Men from France is Ranjan’s recommendation for the week.
Inspired by true events that happened in the 90s in a remote village in Algeria, OF GODS AND MEN (2010, France) deals primarily with the...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 11, 2023
- 1 min
Crime and Ripstein from Mexico is Ranjan’s recommendation for the week
A crook wanting to turn a new leaf after a jail sentence, but being brought back to the world of crime by vested interests for one last...
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Digital Cahier
- Feb 3, 2023
- 1 min
With WW2 as the backdrop : Narvik is Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
At the beginning of the Second World War Norway was officially neutral, a position that was respected by the Germans; but the Swedish...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 28, 2023
- 1 min
Love in a super market: In the Aisles is Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
Working at the supermarket in a German town, two loners – one with a criminal past and the other a victim of an abusive marriage are...
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Digital Cahier
- Jan 21, 2023
- 1 min
A film from Mexico is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
Mexican maestro Arturo Ripstein unveils the horror of the Spanish Inquisition in 16th century Mexico, depicted through the arrest and...
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