This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on June 26, 2015. Once again, it’s time for the Classic Movie History Project Blogathon, hosted by Movies Silently, Silver Screenings and Once Upon a Screen and sponsored by Flicker Alley! I will be sharing my thoughts on the newly restored Apu Trilogy, by director Satyajit Ray. I could tell…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on November 18, 2015. When we first see Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee), she’s the embodiment of the good Bengali wife, embroidering a B (for her husband, Bhupati) on a handkerchief, her workbasket next to her, making sure the servant serves tea on time. But…
Leave a CommentThis post first appeared on Totally Filmi on July 26, 2016. If I were asked about the one sound in the world I love, hands down the answer would be the whirring of a film projector. In this day and age, when digital is king, I still remember the joys…
Leave a CommentThis post first appeared on Totally Filmi on October 2, 2018. Rituparno Ghosh was, before his untimely death in 2013, one of India’s most interesting, talented and, at times, controversial directors. A talented writer who brought out the best in the actors who worked with him, Ghosh spent ten years…
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