This post first appeared on Totally Filmy on August 14, 2018. In the village of Bajjar, Uttar Pradesh, not far from Agra where the Taj Mahal sits in splendour and attracts millions of visitors (both from India and abroad) every year, Bansi (Subrat Dutta), an illiterate man, decides to hatch…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 18, 2018. After struggling with gender identity, Punjabi Canadian Sid (Debargo Sanyal) finally makes the decision to live a life as a transgender woman outside the home, and to undergo the process of gender transition. Sid, born male, has always known…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 21, 2018. After the death of their beloved Gran (Stephanie Fayerman), two half-brothers, Omar (Antonio Aakeel) and Pete (Jack Carroll) set off for Blackpool in order to find Omar’s long-missing father. Omar was, as Gran points out, the result of a…
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This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on August 28, 2018. “Why does your father always cast you in his films?” a young Nitu (Parno Mittra) asks Saberi (Tisha) as the two eat from their lunch boxes. “If you want, I’ll ask him to cast you next time,” Saberi tells…
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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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