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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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Oct 28, 20221 min read
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A Psychiatrist who wanted to be a filmmaker: an Obituary for Dr. Mangesh Ghulghule by Devdutt Trivedi
Dr Mangesh Ghulghule Psychiatric healing is not a process entirely about knowing your neuro-divergence or perhaps, feeling sorry for...

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Vittorio De Sica walked so that Farah Khan could run by Soniya Pondcar
Vittorio de Sica's 1966 film with Peter sellers In Tees Maar Khan (2010), a feisty Anya (Katrina Kaif), a struggling actress and the...

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Apr 258 min read
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Les Mistons – from the by-lanes of our youth by Vandana Kumar
The Brats, Francois Truffaut's Les Mistons (1957) The best way to appreciate an auteur and that distinctive stamp on his œuvre, is often,...

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Apr 57 min read
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Dilip Kumar, Amar, Mehboob Khan, & Mise en scène by Sharad Raj
Madhubala, Nimmi & Dilip Kumar in Mehboob Khan's Amar(1954) I must confess that I tried watching Mehboob Khan’s Mother India (1957)...

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Mar 14 min read
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Shoojit Sircar’s I WANT TO TALK— About the Emotional Imagination of the Viewer by Anup Singh
Abhishek Bachchan & Ahilya Bamroo in Shoojit Sircar's I Want to Talk (2024) With ‘I Want To Talk’ (IWTT) we now have a means of measuring...

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Jan 274 min read
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Deewar Turns 50 by Sharad Raj
The year was 2018. My film was in post-production when Abhijit Majumdar, Head of the Direction Department at Whistling Woods...

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Jan 234 min read
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Bombay Film Culture and Shumona Goel’s Atreyee by Devdutt Trivedi
Shumona Goel, Mumbai based artist, filmmaker Shumona showed Nikhil Arolkar and me her 20-minute film Atreyee in 2007. I just viewed it...

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Jan 78 min read
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Om Dar B Dar: Promise Toothpaste by Devdutt Trivedi
The semiotics of Charles Sanders Pierce was improved upon by Ferdinand De Sauserre. The status quo of semiotics is the Christian God who...

Digital Cahier
Dec 15, 20249 min read
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A Teenager’s Missing Heartbeats and Hindi Films by Sharad Raj
Woody Allen in autobiography, “Apropos of Nothing” talks and celebrates innumerable influences and experiences of watching diverse films...

Digital Cahier
Oct 20, 20243 min read
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A slow burn by Claire Denis is Ranjan's Reccomendation this week
Director Claire Denis reduces the plot of BEAU TRAVAIL to its minimum, choosing to narrate the events in fragments through the reminisces...

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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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Recently added to Netflix is Ranjan's Recommendation for the week
Written, directed, and co-produced by Jeremy Saulnier, REBEL RIDGE (US, 2024) follows ex-marine Terry Richmond's quest for revenge...

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Sep 13, 20241 min read
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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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Sep 6, 20241 min read
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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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Aug 30, 20241 min read
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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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Aug 23, 20241 min read
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Nishtha Jain lenses the farmers’ protests in her latest documentary: A review & an interview by Sharad Raj
Farming the Revolution by Nishtha Jain (2024) On 15th August 2024, as I packed up in the early hours of morning, I wondered why I...

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Aug 23, 20245 min read
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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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Aug 16, 20241 min read
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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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Aug 9, 20241 min read
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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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Aug 2, 20241 min read
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Cinema & Space, Woody Allen's New York by Sharad Raj
New York is a city of Broadway musicals and the Avanta Garde at the same time. From Bolero to Jazz and from Beethoven to bagels and...

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Jun 17, 20244 min read
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