Oru Thekkan Thallu Case is Ranjan's recommendation for the week!
Biju Menon plays a highly respected lighthouse keeper in a small village in Kerala whose unabashed patriarchal heft and intimidating ways...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 17
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1 min
A ligh hearted tale of Malayalees in Bangalore is Ranjan's Reccomendation for the week!
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(1)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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Digital Cahier
- Dec 23, 2022
- 1 min
A witty Malayalam entertainer, Kooman is Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
Popular Malayalam director Jeethu Joseph who gave us DRISHYAM (2013), a film that brought Malayalam cinema into national focus, followed...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Farha- a tour-de-force from Jordan is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
Close on the heels of Pakistan’s JOYLAND comes this astounding film from Jordan – FARHA (2021), dealing with the coming-of-age story of a...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 9, 2022
- 1 min
It is Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice recommended for the week by Ranjan Das
How can you relate to a man who bargains with God that he would sacrifice everything in life – his family and beautiful house, if He can...
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Digital Cahier
- Dec 4, 2022
- 1 min
A tale of corruption & crime from Saudi Arabia is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
A mysterious SUV chases a brother and sister as they drive through the deserts of Saudi Arabia to attend the wedding of their father in...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 25, 2022
- 1 min
A coming of age film from Venezuela is Ranjan's recommendation
A young orphan from Mexico City gone to collect the remains of his long-lost father from a recently discovered mass grave somewhere in...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 19, 2022
- 1 min
Racial prejudice, drugs & thrill are at the core of this South African film recommended by Ranjan
In contemporary South Africa where corruption and murder run rife, two unscrupulous police officers who are steeped in drug dealings are...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 12, 2022
- 1 min
Volubilis from Morocco is Ranjan's recommendation this week
A newly married couple in a Moroccan city dream of shifting to a new house. The girl works as a housemaid and her husband works at a mall...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 5, 2022
- 1 min
A jailbreak and Clint Eastwood film is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
This is an old favourite from yesteryears, starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Don Siegel whom he acknowledges as his guru in...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 23, 2022
- 1 min
Night Train from China is Ranjan's recommendation for this week.
A young widow working as a prison guard who also helps in the execution of female prisoners – a job she does with absolute dispassion –...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 15, 2022
- 1 min
"Pickpocket", from the east by Jia Zhange is Ranjan's recommendation
While most of his friends have moved on in life to become petty traders and turn legit, Xiao Wu finds himself trawling the streets of a...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 8, 2022
- 1 min
A cocktail of murders, affairs & Chabrol is Ranjan's recommendation for the weekend
When a young girl is raped and killed in a small town, the suspicion falls on her art teacher who was last seen with her, giving her...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
The radius of existence- Ranjan recommends Marathi film Trijya for the week
Hailing from a village, artistically inclined Adbhut Kale works as a reporter with a Marathi-language newspaper in Pune where he is...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 23, 2022
- 1 min
Seemabadhha(Company Limited) of Ray is Ranjan's recommendation this week
‘All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries of mankind’, an elderly Tamilian colleague quotes from Joseph...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
Horror-Sci-fi and racial prejudices, Get Out is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
Every once in a while comes a film that uses the conventions of a particular genre, not necessarily to subvert it but to put it to use...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 10, 2022
- 1 min
A Cop & a killer film from South Africa is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
A special investigative officer teams up with a serial killer – both women – to crack down on a crime syndicate involved in child...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
"Trapped" in Netflix, rescue this gem & go for it: Ranjan's recommendation for the week.
Set over a single night against the backdrop of a crackdown on protesters in Cairo during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, this...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 26, 2022
- 1 min
It's the crime detection genre from Italy that ranjan recommends for the week
13-year-old Yara disappears on her way from the gym in a small town in Italy. Her body is found three months later and one of the biggest...
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Digital Cahier
- Aug 19, 2022
- 1 min
A film from Chad is Ranjan's recommendation for the week
To negotiate a declining economy, a pool attendant at a luxury hotel is demoted to make space for his son by its Chinese manager Mrs....
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