It was around 1 am and I was scrolling through my SoundCloud recommendations when I came across a track called “Lighter Machis” and instantly fell in love with it. Maybe it was the chirping birds, or the soft plucking of the ukulele, or the melodic whistling, or maybe a little
Category: Pop Culture
Appreciating Shiva Baby – Honest, Unsettling, Satirical, and a Horrific Tale of Being a Woman
Emma Seligman created a masterpiece!! Yes, that’s what I felt as I delved into a day in the life of Danielle, a bisexual young woman with a secret life of her own who one day visits a Jewish memorial service only to meet her two greatest horrors in the
Amazon Prime Sherni Review: Vidya Balan-starrer environmental thriller is a scathing commentary on human-animal conflict
Plot A Divisional Forest Officer faces a classic man vs wild situation when a tigress starts attacking a village that comes under the vicinity of the forest she has been appointed as in-charge. That’s it! No Drama or overly-shown conflicts, still this movie woke up the once zoologist that had
Amazon Prime’s The Family Man 2: This time Manoj Bajpayee had to share his limelight with Samantha
Picture Courtesy – Jagran The Family Man is one series that left me confused about its genre, the first time I watched it. Mostly categorized as Action-Thriller/Comedy, I found it to be a palpable family drama also. In a nutshell, it fitted in all categories and in the most seamless
Five Feminist Movies Based On Tagore’s Novels That Still Feel Ahead of Time
Every community in India gets stereotyped by each other. When it comes to Bengalis, we have been stereotyped by our love for fish and rice, afternoon siestas, our political intellect, football, and Tagore. While I or many like me might contradict some of these stereotypical ideas, I feel very few
Apu’s Agony to Manomohan’s Magnanimity: Navigating Satyajit Ray’s Classics on His Birth Centenary
The birth centenary of Satyajit Ray comes at a time when the world is overwhelmed by chaos and despair, too deafening to sit and appreciate the finer aspects of his filmmaking. Yet, there is no denying that the films he made decades ago, continue to transcend the boundaries of time,
Amazon Prime ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’ hits deep-rooted patriarchy at the right place
This is an appreciation blog. ‘Women are auspicious if they stay home. Your contributions towards your family are even more than ministers and others running the country..’ We see a father-in-law telling this to his daughter-in-law, the protagonist when she got an interview opportunity for a dance teacher’s position. He
Netflix Irul Review: Fahadh Faasil-Soubin Shahir starrer could have been a dream project but stayed undone
A writer and his beloved are stranded in the middle of nowhere, a secluded house, a mysterious broody man, and a hanging dead body in the basement. This might just feel like another plot of a thriller, but for someone who is a sucker for thrillers like me, I always
Amazon Prime’s Drishyam 2 delves deep into Georgekutty & his family’s trauma with another edge-of-the-seat experience
The 2013 Drishyam proved to be one of the best Indian thrillers in recent times with its brilliantly woven game of visual deceit. It challenged the boundaries of a common man’s quest to save his family from the traumas of an unfortunate incident. The ending was perfect. It was something
The Bride In Bengali Movies: Through The Decades
Since the inception of talkies in Bengali cinema, the ‘wedding’ has been one of the most predominant themes in Bengal’s filmography. Be it a romantic saga ending in a wedding, a loveless marriage or the poignant tale of a child bride in a morally bankrupt society, the Bengali bride was
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