Supernatural
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KILLER SOUP (Dir. Abhishek Chaubey, 2023, India)

* * * Abhishek Chaubey has remained brilliantly consistent and his last film Sonchiriya (2019), a dacoit Western with an ensemble cast, was an exceptional genre work that was under appreciated on its release. In many ways, Killer Soup instinctively revisits the multi narrative format of Chaubey’s Udta Punjab (2016) and makes for a devilishly Continue reading
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ANKAHEE / THE UNSPOKEN (Dir. Amol Palekar, 1985, India) – The Gaze of Death
Horror is a genre absent from much of Hindi cinema and whilst not much work has been carried out to study its development as a genre and why it continues to operate in a state of terminal decline and critical derision (not surprising given its Continue reading
