In Celebration of 100 Years of Satyajit Ray
100 Years of Satyajit Ray: a tribute to The Apu Trilogy May 2, 2021, saw the start of celebrations of…
LIFF 2019 Special Review – Arishadvarga
Director Arvind Kamath’s latest film takes its title from the Arishadvargas, or the six enemies of the mind according to…
LIFF 2019 Special Review: Abyakto (“Unsaid”)
A recurring dream: a boy, holding his mother’s hand, follows a procession. At some point, unaware as he watches what’s…
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…
