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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- 1 day ago
- 4 min
Mani Kaul's 'Mati Manas the fable as re-told by O.P. Srivastava.
Anita Kanwar in Mani Kaul's Mati Manas In 1984, the Handicraft Development Commission of India commissioned Mani Kaul to make a film...
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- 1 day ago
- 3 min
Amrit Gangar's The Close-up katha: Ritwik Ravivar 21
Image: Sudharani Sharma in ‘Rendezvous’, screenshot by AG. The twenty-first edition of my Ritwik Robibarer Close-up Katha celebrates...
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- 4 days ago
- 4 min
It is Kumar Shahani's Khayal Gatha that O.P. Srivastava narrates today.
Khayal Gatha (The Saga of Khayal) is a 1989 Indian experimental film written and directed by Kumar Shahani. The film traces the history...
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- 4 days ago
- 2 min
Amrit Gangar's The Close-up katha: Ritwik Ravivar-20
Image: Indrani Mukhopadhyay in Ritwik Ghatak’s partially restored film ‘Bagalar Banga Darshan’ (1964), a still, courtesy: Ritwik Memorial...
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- 5 days ago
- 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
- 3 min
Amrit Gangar's The Close-up katha: Ritwik Ravivar-19
Image: A close-up of one of Chittaprosad’s pen and ink sketches in Ritwik Ghatak’s short film ‘Durbargati Padma’ (1971). Chittaprosad was...
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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!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars.
(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 15
- 4 min
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla aka 12 Angry Men is O.P. Srivastav's focus this week
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla (A Pending Decision) is a 1986 Hindi language courtroom drama directed by Basu Chatterji. It is a remake of the Golden...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 12
- 2 min
Jean-Luc ‘Cinema’ Godard: A Homage by Monish Das
American actor Jean Seberg and Jean-Luc Godard in 1960 in Paris. In the world of cinema, there are few names as iconic and revolutionary...
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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 4
- 3 min
Niharika in search of her 'space' ’: An Odyssey by Amrit Gangar
Image: Deepa has returned with her new-born baby Megha and her careerist husband, to Kolkata. It is ‘window’ that becomes the ‘pakad’ for...
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Digital Cahier
- Sep 3
- 4 min
Om Dar-B-Dar: moving pieces of broken glass in a kaleidoscope by O.P. Srivastava
Gopi Desai & Lalit Tewari in Kamal Swaroop's Om Dar-B-Dar(1988). During the lockdown period, I made a documentary titled What’s Your...
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- Sep 3
- 3 min
Amrit Gangar's The Close-up katha: Ritwik Ravivar-18
Image: A screenshot from the film by AG. The film ‘Ramkinkar Baij: A Personality Study’, 1975. The film shows Baij in different locations...
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- 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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- Aug 28
- 5 min
O.P. Srivastava celebrates Mrinal Sen's Hindi debut Bhuvan Shome(1969) that kickstarted the New Wave
Mrinal Sen’s ninth film, his first Hindi film, Bhuvan Shome opens with shots of railway tracks speeding by, against the metallic sound of...
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- Aug 28
- 3 min
Amrit Gangar's The Close-up katha: Ritwik Ravivar-17
Image: Last close-up from Ritwik Ghaak’s film ‘Titash Ekti Nadir Naam’ (1973), screenshot by AG. [Titash is also often spelt as Titas –...
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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 23
- 3 min
Movie Memories-8: Ranjan Das's cringeworthy experience of an Uttam Kumar film!
When AMANUSH was released in 1975, I was a kid and not taken to watch the film. Starring Uttam Kumar who was the reigning superstar of...
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- Aug 23
- 5 min
Ankur: the sapling of parallel Hindi Cinema by O.P. Srivastava
Shyam Benegal's Ankur (1974) Ankur (The Seedlings) was Shyam Benegal’s first feature film, released in 1974. It was also the debut film...
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