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IFFK Diary – Vol 2 : The Lowdown
IFFK, 2010 was without question, the best film festival I’ve attended ever since I’ve hit the road 3 months ago. A lovely atmosphere charged with a...
Of Locomotives, Love and Longing: Three films and some ponderings
Kray (The Edge) is the official entry of Russia into the Oscars and it has already bagged a Golden Globe nomination. To my surprise, it turns out to be an entertaining...
Paleri Manikyam Review – Murder, he wrote…or did he?
The synopsis for Paleri Manikyam : Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha (Paleri Manikyam : A Midnight Murder Story) in the IFFK handbook mentioned it to be the story...
Biutiful Review : Watchable film, an unsure deviation
One of the most melancholic scene in the otherwise ebullient Munnabhai MBBS was the scene with Gracy Singh’s character breaking out the news of terminal cancer...
Makaramanju (Mist of the Capricorn) Review : Celluloid quicksand
Lenin Rajendran’s Makaramanju (Mist of the Capricorn) is perhaps the most deserving of the “masterpiece” tag amongst the Indian films I’ve...
IFFK Diary – Vol 1 : A Tale of two bureaucracies
A couple of weeks ago, I had put up a post lambasting bureaucratic indifference at IFFI. Today, while I write this, I’m glad to be eating my words. Not that...
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger – The “un”-Review
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger We have seen (and/or read) Shakespeare’s Macbeth – “Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,...
Sherlock the TV Series – The Game is On !!!
Earlier it was the Red Riding Trilogy which was highly reccomended by people – rightly so. The first episode of the Neo Noir serial murders British TV series...
The One More Blog : Over to Abbas
Abbas is an integral part of the cast of the film and co-incidentally also plays the character of Abbas Abbas is a certified coach in USA and has done a USA Hockey...
The One More Blog – Over to Maria Antonova
Maria is an integral part of the cast of One More & plays the role of Polina Kravtsova in the film. Born in 1985, Vladivostok, Russia, Maria graduated from...
Dhoosar Review : A beautiful blur
Indian filmmakers seem to have hit upon an unerring formula in the last few years. The success of Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par brought about a new template...
IFFI Diary – Vol 2 : IFFI Photoblog
The happenings at IFFI have been pretty insipid and banal so far. Even the films have not been up to the standard of a film festival. So, instead of some repetitive...
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