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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: TALE OF A CRIME THAT CUTS DEEP
A gripping Saudi thriller that uses the framework of a desert murder mystery to expose the deeper anxieties, silences, and societal constraints faced by women, Haifaa Al Manso...
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In this profound essay, writer and filmmaker Sharad Raj explores how Ritwik Ghatak merged Marxism, Jungian psychology, and Brechtian alienation to depict the anguish of Partit...
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Khalid Mohamed assesses the now accessible 1969 documentary, Phantom India, helmed by the French auteur Malle, which had been banned for depicting the poverty in India from a ...
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When art-house brilliance wins global acclaim but faces neglect in its own country, it forces us to question the moral compass of our cinematic culture and its growing obsessi...
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Khalid Mohamed in conversation with Ramu Aravindan, founder of a Documentation Centre and a socially concerned photographer — son of G. Aravindan — the pioneering ...
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