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Movie Mahal

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  • Swayamvaram / One’s Own Choice (Dir. Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1972, Malayalam)

    November 20, 2025
  • Grihajuddha / Crossroads(1982, Dir. Buddhadev Dasgupta, India)

    November 2, 2024
  • Bollywood Flashback 2# – The cut-price aesthetics of Hum / We (Dir. Mukul Anand, 1991, India)

    October 28, 2024
  • WILL PENNY (Dir. Tom Gries, 1968, US)

    July 19, 2024
  • AB DILLI DUR NAHIN (Dir. Amar Kumar, 1957, India) – A Nehruvian Dream Through a Child’s Eyes

    July 7, 2024
  • PALTADACHO MUNIS / The Man Beyond the Bridge (Dir. Laxmikant Shetgaonkar, 2009, India) – Severing the now

    June 24, 2024
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About Me

Omar Ahmed is a UK based film scholar with a PhD in Screen Studies from the University of Manchester (2019). He is also a teacher, writer & international curator of South Asian Cinema. He is co-founder of The Cloud Door (2025); the first boutique South Asian home video label.

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