This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on September 4, 2019. Teenager Nisha (Maria Mozhdah) lives a double life: at home, she speaks Urdu and follows her family’s rules; outside, she speaks Norwegian, wears a snapback and hoodie, plays basketball, hangs out with other teenagers, and has a Norwegian boyfriend.…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on September 11, 2018. One of the pleasures of film festivals is the exposure to films that one might not normally have access to, or that sit a little bit outside one’s wheelhouse. Director Kabir Singh Chowdhry’s Mehsampur (titled after the Punjabi village in which,…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on September 25, 2018. From the moment we see Khuddoos (Manoj Bajpayee in yet another moving and masterful performance), an Old Delhi shopkeeper, we know that this is a man with his own demons, his eyes wary and watchful as he views closed…
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This 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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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on March 25, 2019. One dark evening, a young woman, running from the police, takes refuge at the home of businessman K.B. Pillai (G.K. Pillai). Pillai and his family threaten to turn her over to the police unless she explains how she got…
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This post appeared first on Totally Filmi in 2011, as part of the Kapoor Khazana Blogathon. It was updated to fix broken video links on March 25, 2019. “Audiences who are unfamiliar with the codes and convention of Hindi cinema often find it difficult to make sense of song and…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on March 29, 2019. Rosshan Andrrews’ debut film, Udayananu Tharam, was amongst the films I fell in love with when I first started expanding my Malayalam film viewing beyond purely arthouse types of movies. A black comedy starring Mohanlal and Sreenivasan (who also wrote…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on April 1, 2019. In the South Indian state of Kerala – known as “God’s Own Country” – P.K. Ramdas (Sachin Khedekar), the leader of the ruling party, dies, and a power struggle over who will replace him and who will retain power…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on May 14, 2019. Pallavi Raveendran (Parvathy) is a smart, vibrant young woman who, from a young age, wants to become a pilot. Pallavi’s father, Raveendran (Siddique) is loving and supportive, taking on work so that he can pay for the things Pallavi…
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