A 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...
What 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...
Changing 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...
The 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....
The 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....