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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- 2 days ago
- 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 27
- 2 min
La Notte(1961) by Michelangelo Antonioni
“The final sequence of Antonioni’s La Notte is perhaps the only episode in the whole history of cinema in which a love scene became a...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 26
- 8 min
Decoding the Uttam-Suchitra chemistry by Satyabrata Ghosh
Cinema could have been only a spectacular experience for the ticket-paying audience for a decade or two, if it had limited itself to...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 25
- 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
- 9 min
"Au revoir les enfants" – Childhood, Holocaust and the Cinema of Louis Malle by Vandana Kumar
A lot of films leave us moist eyed. Some go further and simply make us cry and reach out for a box of tissues. Very few make our hearts...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 19
- 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 16
- 6 min
Bengali Cinema – A Middle Way to Tread by Satyabrata Ghosh
Years back, probably in the summer of 1989, the actor Rabi Ghosh in a lively chat with me, referred to Charlie Chaplin as he explained...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 12
- 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 7
- 4 min
Devdutt Trivedi delves deep into Lars von Trier's Danish mini-series The Kingdom: Exodus( Season 3)
The latest offering from Lars Von Trier is the third season of his 1994 television series Riget, which was the Danish helmer’s only foray...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 5
- 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
- Nov 3
- 3 min
Of Salim-Javed, Alexander Korda, & the hyperlinked world By Ranjan Das
In Diptakirti Chaudhuri’s deeply engrossing account WRITTEN BY SALIM-JAVED, Salim Khan quotes Alexander Korda on the brevity that should...
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Digital Cahier
- Nov 2
- 6 min
Ballavpurer Roopkatha: a director in charge by Satyabrata Ghosh
While we were growing up as cinephiles, it was often told that the cinema is a ‘director’s medium’. In practice however, we witnessed and...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 29
- 3 min
A cup of tea, a heart attack, Ulmer and Detour by Sharad Raj
“I keep trying to forget what happened and wonder what my life might have been like if that car of Haskel’s hadn’t stopped. But one thing...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 23
- 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 20
- 7 min
On watching Ponniyin Selvan at a Critical Time by Satyabrata Ghosh
Aishwarya Rai & Vikram The world of the movie business faced its first challenge in America in the late 1950s when television started...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 16
- 4 min
Memories of Tomas Alea's "Memories of Underdevelopment" by Sharad Raj
MOU YEAR: 1968 LANGUAGE: SPANISH Those were revolutionary times in Latin America. While Ernesto ‘Che’ Gauvera was formulating his...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 15
- 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 10
- 3 min
"Ab yeh tala main teri jeb se chaabi nikaal kar hi kholunga,”Amitabh's gems listed by Sharad Raj
It was the summer of 1982 when the reigning superstar of the Hindi films, Amitabh Bachchan met with a near fatal accident on the sets of...
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Digital Cahier
- Oct 8
- 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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