28 November 2016
Appreciating Movies in the Age of Easy Internet Activism
On how moral grandstanding and half-baked internet activism impoverish our reading of films — with Ae Dil Hai Mushkil as exhibit A.
28 November 2016
On how moral grandstanding and half-baked internet activism impoverish our reading of films — with Ae Dil Hai Mushkil as exhibit A.
1 August 2015
Thoughts after watching Masaan — on chance, loss, the question of ‘what if’, and the loops we are always closing.
23 October 2013
Richard Linklater’s third Before film presents Jesse and Celine in their middle period of love — saddled with age, children and the slow excavation of each other’s wounds.
20 January 2012
Sudhish Kamath’s black-and-white indie is shot through with the warmth of a jazz soundtrack and conversations that resonate with déjà vu.