Where no-nonsense Indian Film Critics analyse and speak about their favourite and non-favourite Indie movies.
No country for old love
A column on Aadish Keluskar's JAOO KAHAN BATA AE DIL.
Share: Play, rewind, relapse
Film critic Poulomi Das writes about SHARE, Pippa Bianco's breakout high-school drama about the unending trauma of a teenaged assault survivor in the internet age.
The Bombay of modern Hindi cinema
We take a look how a certain dimension of Maximum City – "the immigrant's Mumbai" – is being represented in contemporary Hindi cinema and short films.
Desi pulp ka pasha: Crime, lust & honey
We look back at Desi Pulp ka Pasha, a short documentary about the creator of smutty true-crime spreads like Madhur Kathayen, Crime & Detective and Manohar Kahaniyaan.
The visual language of “Once Again”
Film critic Rahul Desai writes about the visual language and curious frames of Kanwal Sethi's 'middle-aged love story,' ONCE AGAIN.
The tragic masculinity of Music Teacher
An essay on the haunted protagonist of Sarthak Dasgupta's MUSIC TEACHER.
For the “love” of Gully Boy
An essay on the language of the "love story" at the core of Zoya Akhtar's GULLY BOY.
In conversation with Utpal Borpujari
Our chat with award-winning film critic, curator and filmmaker Utpal Borpujari about the evolution of North-Eastern cinema and the voices he aspires to represent.
The modern workspace movie
Through the cultural prism of three distinct but similarly "spaced" movies, Rahul Desai looks at the role of the workspace in modern cinema.
The rebellion of the Hindi film heroine
An analysis of the modern transformation of the "heroine" through the prism of Hindi cinema in 2018.
Growing old at the movies
Film critic Rahul Desai writes an essay associating his late grandfather with the moments of Pushan Kripalani's little-known indie, "The Threshold" (2015), which stars Neena Gupta and Rajit Kapur.
The immortality of grief
A rock-climbing documentary and a space biopic collide to form a celestial body of fragile humanity.
Sairat: The Symphony of Cloud Nine
Film critic Rahul Desai throws back to the "storytelling" of the path-breaking music of Sairat - the Marathi blockbuster that subverted the norms of Indian mainstream cinema.
Gulabi Gang: What questions to ask, and when
A throwback to Nishtha Jain's illuminating 2014 documentary GULABI GANG -- not to be confused with the vapid Madhuri Dixit starrer Gulaab Gang -- by award-winning film critic Tanul Thakur.
The anatomy of movie marriages
Film critic Rahul Desai explores the narrative language of "marriage" in modern Hindi cinema.
In Conversation with Anupama Chopra
On the eve of the 20th edition of the JIO MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, we speak to the captain of the ship herself: the multifaceted Anupama Chopra.
The cutters of consciousness
Film critic Rahul Desai delves into two separate films in 2018 about documentary makers and their unique perception of memories.
Par Ek Din: The haze of city voices
Rahul Desai writes about Par Ek Din, a 89-minute documentary (streaming on Youtube) that features the struggles of an obscure Mumbai-based music band.
