LIFF 2019 Special Review: Vivek (“Reason”)
Anand Patwardhan’s latest documentary, Vivek, screened in this year’s London Indian Film Festival – at the same time as the…
LIFF 2019 Special Review: Saturday Afternoon
What are your plans for a Saturday afternoon? A trip to the market? To a movie? To a sporting event?…
LIFF 2019 Special Review: The Lift Boy
Meet Raju (Moin Khan): English Medium school educated and more comfortable in English than in Hindi; taken to wearing sunglasses…
LIFF 2019 Special Review: Kattumaram
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami that took the lives of their parents, Anandhi (Preeti Karan) and her cousin…
LIFF 2019 Special Review: My Home India
One of the pleasures of reviewing LIFF films over the last few years has been the opportunity to discover wonderful…
LIFF Special Review: This Shaking Keeps Me Steady
Shehrezad Maher’s film This Shaking Keeps Me Steady takes its title from a poem entitled “The Waking” by acclaimed American…
LIFF 2019 Special Review: Widow of Silence
“You cannot afford your own thoughts,” Aasia’s hospital co-worker tells her. Aasia does, indeed, have thoughts about her situation, her…
LIFF 2019 Special Review: Bulbul Can Sing
Oh, Rima Das! You charmed me with your previous film, Village Rockstars. But with your latest film, Bulbul Can Sing,…
Special NYIFF Review: Sir
“You’re back,” asks the doorman at the entrance to an apartment building, as Ratna enters. “I was called,” she replies.…
Netflix’s Sacred Games: A gritty must-see thriller full of style and substance
I first picked up Vikram Chandra’s massive tome Sacred Games at my local bookshop, and from the very first pages,…
