Dec 18, 2022CinemaA Time For Drunken Horses and The Politics of Violence, or the Philosophy of 'Anti-Education'Bahman Ghobadi, one of the instrumental protagonists of the Iranian New Wave, seeks to foreground the violent destruction stimulated by...
Apr 26, 2022CinemaWhat Does Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali tell us about Visual Poetry in Cinema?Poetics, just like poetry, is an all-encompassing word. ‘Poetry’ can be everything, and ‘poetics’ can be ‘of everything’. Aristotle, as...
Mar 26, 2022CinemaChanging the Dynamics of ‘War Cinema’ using ‘Conflict’ as the Lenshave a stereotyped expectation around them which most of the filmmakers only manipulate with creative liberty but never muster the...
Mar 26, 2022CinemaThe Boy in Striped Pyjamas - Beyond the Fence In the mouth of war, humanity decays. It's only the living who know of their motherland, the dead only survives in the soils of history....
Feb 27, 2022CinemaThe Privilege of Love, Rituparno Ghosh’s ChitrangadaIn the epic tale of Mahabharata, Chitrangada was a warrior-princess who was brought up by her father, the king of Manipura, as a man....
Feb 13, 2022CinemaPortrait of a Lady on Fire, An 18th Century Art in MotionCoastal Brittany, France, 1770. An oceanfront castle. A secret painting. And two hearts that stretch and grow to envelop the magic of...