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Showing posts with label Marathi cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marathi cinema. Show all posts
27 July 2020

All the perfumes of Arabia

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My Mirror column: Uplifting and devastating by turns, Vinod Kamble’s 2019 debut feature Kastoori (The Musk) is the kind of coming-of-age na...
19 June 2018

A Patriarchal Narrative

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My Mirror column : Films   S Durga and Nude show a reality where Indian women can be either sexual individuals or mothers and sisters —...

Worship, motherhood, lust

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My Mirror column : A close look at two of last year’s most ‘controversial’ films – S Durga and Nude – reveals the same demons in the m...
4 June 2017

This Dappled Light

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My Mirror column : Konkona Sen Sharma’s directorial debut eschews high drama for a gentle chiaroscuro of abandon and watchfulness. T...
6 February 2017

Best of 2016: Part II

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My Mirror column : The second part of my year-end list of my favourite Indian films from 2016. Carrying on from last week's column: he...
28 November 2016

The Trappings of Technology

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My Mirror column: Two great films about unemployed men and machines confront us with the alienations of our time. A whi...
22 May 2016

The Untamed Heart of India

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My Mirror  column for 22 May, 2016: Sairat delivers both a compelling tribute and an astutely-aimed punch to decades of Indian film r...
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9 May 2016

Twins from a Temple Town

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My Mirror column  for 8 May 2016: Two recent Marathi films use a very similar set of ingredients to create different portraits of Pandhar...
18 August 2015

Of homes and prisons

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My Mirror column last Sunday: Jabbar Patel's 1981 film Subah (made as Umbartha in Marathi) is a flawed but intriguing feminist po...
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24 April 2015

Extra-legal understanding

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My Mumbai Mirror column last Sunday:  Chaitanya Tamhane's debut film Court is a devastating, elegant indictment of our collective p...
22 March 2015

Sex and the Single Man

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My Mirror column today: Harshvardhan Kulkarni's indulgent but refreshingly forthright film Hunterrr opens a much-needed window onto...