There are films, there are epics and then there is The Revenant! This sheer grandiloquence of this film is not merely about the size of the production but also about the sheer effort and exertion of everyone involved. It is the willingness of the cast and crew to reach the edge of their physical and […]
Month: January 2016
Room: An Intricately Crafted Disappointment
Yes, I am aware of all the positive accolades being garnered by Lenny Abrahamson’s Room. I will not be surprised if it also wins a few Oscars next month. But having said that I have to confess that the film left me really cold. Call me a philistine but no, I could not just engage […]
In Conversation With Kanishk Tharoor
It wasn?t long ago when Shashi Tharoor, wrote in the ?Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century?, Indian diplomacy is like the love-making of an elephant: It is conducted at a very high level, accompanied by much bellowing, and the results are not known for two years! Just like his father, Kanishk […]
Trumbo: A Period Film that is highly Topical for India
Trumbo is the biopic of Hollywood Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who did bulk of his work between 30s and 60s. So, why should Indians watch it, apart from the fact that it stars our favourite Walt from Breaking Bad? Well, there are many reasons why not only film lovers but every contemporary Indian should watch it. […]
Hateful Eight: Nightmare in a Blizzard
Nobody has done more in the last two decades to aestheticize violence and bring it to the mainstream than Quentin Tarantino. Such elements existed in spades in B movies and Japanese Horror but he took those elements and turned them into Oscar worthy dramas because he was not merely imitating but creating his own original […]
Everybody Wants Some Trailer: Linklater goes back to College
The trailer of Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some is out and it looks like a breezy comedy about some 80s baseball obsessed American college kids. But can we expect it to be just another comedy? Surely Linklater will not be limited to that! Over the years, Linklater has become the master of time on celluloid. […]