1957, Hindi, YouTube (Tommydan55 Channel), 8.5/10 IMDB, Directed by Guru Dutt A tale of a poet in a wistful society. A society that pretends in making the dead immortal, rather than acclaiming the talents of the living. Pyaasa (Thirst), is about a remorseful poet Vijay (Guru Dutt), who tries to publish his Urdu poems. None, … Read morePyaasa
2020, Tamil, Amazon Prime, 7.6/10 IMDB, Anthology Directed by Sudha Kongara, Gautham Menon, Suhashini Manirathnam, Rajiv Menon, Karthik Subbaraj. An anthology with a common backdrop of COVID lockdown, falls short in creativity. It seemingly strikes parallels to our ‘lockdown mood swings’ in testing our patience at many instances. Pooling across an anthology, during testing times … Read morePutham Pudhu Kaalai
2018, Hindi, Netflix, 7.5/1 IMDB, Directed by Onir An unassuming film that caress you with the subtlety in its making and the warmth in its poetic recitals. Its been a while, since a romantic drama with no noise and pomp turns up your way. Its a rare coincidence when its backed by a decent script … Read moreKuchh Bheege Alfaaz
2020, Tamil, Zee5 pay per movie, IMDB 7.9/10, Directed by Virumandi A protracted documentation of the ordeal of the villagers, whose menfolk are forced to go aboard on menial works, would have otherwise glisten, had it been subjected to precise editing and concise writing. From the ancient story of Sathyavan Savithri to that of Manirathnam’s … Read moreKa. Pae. Ranasingam
27th September 2020, Book A Workshop face-to-face A brief workshop that focused on appreciation of two iconic feature films and a short film- 1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, the French classic thriller, 1955 ‘Les Diaboliques’ and Short Film Maya by Vikas Chandra. The workshop threw light on how to read two films of similar genre that … Read moreFilm Appreciation with Namrata Joshi
2020, Docudrama, English, Netflix, 7.8/10 IMDB, Directed by Jeff Orlowski Social network addiction, decoded using a new lens, that incites silent shock waves and urges the need for weaning off from one’s own addiction however minimal one may manifest it to be. Evils of social media, documented with a parallel drama of a family’s addiction. Even … Read moreThe Social Dilemma
English Documentary, 2013, You Tube, IMDB 9/10, Directed by Shabnam Sukhdev An emotional tale of a daughter’s quest to fill the missing pieces in her relationship with her ‘Padmasri’ awardee father, only to realize he wasn’t the terrible father that her memory recalled and he was trying to influence her life all along without her knowledge. … Read moreThe Last Adieu
A crisp course comprising essential video lectures of professional film critics that aid you to assimilate the phenomena of criticism in its entirety. With the best film critics from the industry, Anupama Chopra , Baradwaj Rangan , Rahul Desai and Sucharita Tyagi, the course covers a total of 10 topics under Film Criticism. The course lessons addresses some significant pointers that assist … Read moreFilm Companion Class in Session- “Writing About Films”