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Category: Art Cinema

Posted on February 20, 2011December 30, 2018

ANTAREEN / CONFINED (Dir. Mrinal Sen, 1993, India) – Disconnected

Adapted from a story by Punjabi writer Sadat Hasan Manto, Mrinal Sen’s disjunctive Antareen is a study of two lost souls unable to make a concrete emotional connection. Compared to…

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Posted on January 22, 2011October 24, 2014

DHOBI GHAT : Mumbai Diaries (Dir. Kiran Rao, 2010, India) – The Gaze of the City

                  Mumbai is one of the great cities of the world, drawing in film makers so they can use the dense urban…

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Posted on January 16, 2011October 24, 2014

RAJANIGANDHA / TUBEROSE (Dir. Basu Chatterjee, 1974, India) – Love and Truth

Prior to the first of many 1970s collaborations with under stated comic actor Amol Palekar, Basu Chatterjee’s directorial debut in 1969 Sara Akash was positioned along side Bhuvan Shome (Mrinal…

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