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Critique

Critique on Pathaan and other films
Are We Accepting Ourselves Better Now Than Ever?

Audiences have begun embracing mindless entertainment, reflecting a cultural shift towards a slow and steady acceptance of our own true choices and ourselves. This acceptance extends to our past, as seen in the resurgence of 90s music and the acknowledgment of B and C grade cinema. Saumya Baijal critiques this emerging trend.

Are We Accepting Ourselves Better Now Than Ever?
Are We Accepting Ourselves Better Now Than Ever?
Audiences have...
Ganashatru – An Adaptation of An Enemy of the People
Ganashatru – An Adaptation of An Enemy of the People
Satyajit...
Satyajit, Ritwik – and the Renegade ‘Father’ Figure
Satyajit, Ritwik – and the Renegade ‘Father’ Figure
In a brief critique,...
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Mando Meyer Upakhyan: A Deconstructive Reading
Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Mando Meyer Upakhyan: A Deconstructive Reading
Buddhadeb...
Tawaifs and Baijis, Wenches and Whores…
Tawaifs and Baijis, Wenches and Whores…
In...
Kaagaz ke Phool
IPR and Indian Cinema: A Scenario of Violation
When...
Of Shared Legacies and New Sensibilities: Looking at Kannada Cinema
Of Shared Legacies and New Sensibilities: Looking at Kannada Cinema
Two...
From BIG DATA to Small Cinema? Challenges & Opportunities of Cinema in New Media
From BIG DATA to Small Cinema? Challenges & Opportunities of Cinema in New Media
With...
Reconsidering Real and Metaphorical Gendered Spaces
Reconsidering Real and Metaphorical Gendered Spaces
This article,...
Women in Hindi Cinema in Post-Colonial India
Women in Hindi Cinema in Post-Colonial India
Exploring the...
2001 A Space Odyssey
Space and Time in Films
Science fiction in films has evolved...
Gender, Politics, Power and the World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Part III
Gender, Politics, Power and the World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Part III
In...
Gender, Politics, Power and the World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Part II
Gender, Politics, Power and the World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Part II
While...
Gender, Politics, Power and the World Of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Part I
Gender, Politics, Power and the World Of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: Part I
The beauty...
A Cyberpunk Chorus
A Cyberpunk Chorus
Mrinal Sen made Chorus in 1974. His...
From BIG DATA to Small Cinema? Challenges & Opportunities of Cinema in New Media
From BIG DATA to Small Cinema? Challenges & Opportunities of Cinema in New Media
With the expanse of digital...
Yeh haath humko de Thakur
Knifing the Body – Depiction of Maiming in Cinema
Filmmakers have often...
Guide: A Spiritual Odyssey
Guide: A Spiritual Odyssey
Dev Anand’s creative effort reached...
Vertigo (1958): A Question of Identity Sixty Years Later
Vertigo (1958): A Question of Identity Sixty Years Later
"Vertigo is a classic example...
From Margins to Centre Stage
From Margins to Centre Stage
Ever since the initiation of the...
14 Minutes of Tsai Ming Liang and the Collision with the Spectacles
14 Minutes of Tsai Ming Liang and the Collision with the Spectacles
Taiwanese film-maker Tsai Ming Liang’s...
In the Wink of an Eye
In the Wink of an Eye
A particular film has often achieved an iconic...
The Seventh Art - Pioneer Female Auteurs of Hindi Films and Hollywood (1920s-1950s)
The Seventh Art – Pioneer Female Auteurs of Hindi Films and Hollywood (1920s-1950s)
On the occasion of International Women’s...
The film exposes the evils of real estate dealers and multi-millionaire promoters - Tarneja (Pankaj Kapur) and Ahuja (Om Puri)
Looking Back at Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
A 1983 film made on a shoe-string...
Of Father, Brothers and an Unholy Hunger – Looking at Kaaka Muttai and Sahaj Pather Gappo
Of Father, Brothers and an Unholy Hunger – Looking at Kaaka Muttai and Sahaj Pather Gappo
Manas...
Women at the Centre: Four Sensitive Films
Women at the Centre: Four Sensitive Films
Four contemporary films handle adeptly the perennial...
Celebration of Moral Decay in Contemporary Bollywood Films: A Critique of Raees and Kaabil
Celebration of Moral Decay in Contemporary Bollywood Films: A Critique of Raees and Kaabil
Bollywood films and films in general...
Satyajit Ray and Ravi Shankar during one of the many sessions composing the music of Ray’s The Apu Trilogy.
Ray’s Ravi Shankar – A Blueprint for Posterity
An Unfilmed Visual...
Of Traditional Tyranny and Feminine Revolt
Of Traditional Tyranny and Feminine Revolt
Two gut-wrenching films...
Maurits Cornelis Escher’s ‘The Eye’ looks straight in my eyes
I’s Eyes: Exploring Use of Eyes in Films
The recently concluded Kolkata International...
Jamie Fox plays Rhythm and Blues musician Ray Charles in the biopic Ray (2004)
The ‘Biopic’ Teaser
Biopic films have more often than not run into...
Mrinal Sen's Bhuvan Shome - an Indian Nouvelle Vague experience
Re-claiming Indian Parallel Cinema
The Indian Parallel cinema has been...
Uttam Kumar in Satyajit Ray's Chiriakhana
An Open Letter to Byomkesh Bakshi
There have been a flurry...
Thousands of feet of celluloid stripped of silver
India’s Vanishing Films Need Urgent Policies to Avoid a Bleak Future
Destroyed by nitrate fires, stripped...
Prosenjit as Anthony Phiringi in Jatishwar
Unmitigated Agonies and Unheard voices: Exploration of Madness in Srijit Mukherji’s Baishey Shrabon and Jatishwar
In...
The Idea of Apu
The Idea of Apu
On reading Pather Panchali one cannot help...
Pramathesh Barua, Uttam Kumar and Soumitra Chatterjee: A Brief Insight into Concepts of Masculinities
Pramathesh Barua, Uttam Kumar and Soumitra Chatterjee: A Brief Insight into Concepts of Masculinities
Indian...
The Many Faces of Byomkesh Bakshi
The Many Faces of Byomkesh Bakshi
Indian cinema and television has...
The Wind Will Carry Us Cast: Behzad Dorani, Bahman Ghobadi Director: Abbas Kiarostami [Blu-ray available on Amazon]
Landscape & Kiarostami – Taste of Cherry & The Wind Will Carry Us
Kiarostami has been a tireless composer...
The Mind Twisters (8 Movies No One Can Watch Just Once)
The Mind Twisters (8 Movies No One Can Watch Just Once)
The best aspect of this genre is the faith the...
Charulata: The Lonely Wife
Performativity and Politics: Ray and Ghatak
Ray, in his characteristic...
Nutan essayed the role of Kalyani in Bimal Roy's Bandini
She Smiles Everytime Letters Marry Silver Screen
Literature and cinema...
First-nighters posing for the camera outside the Warners' Theatre before the premiere of Don Juan with John Barrymore. Pic Courtesy: National Archives and Records Administration, Wikimedia Commons
Silent Film Studies: The Curious Absence of Film Sound in Film Theory
Works...
South City Towers
The City in Cinema, and Cinemas in the City: South City Mall and Locations of Display
Somewhat...
Meena Kumari in Pakeezah
Locating the Muslim Identity in Popular Hindi Cinema
The Muslim...
Bollywood - Wacckopedia
Bollywood – Wacckopedia
Bollywood signed a $12.79 million deal...
In Gulaal’s heavily masculine world of politics, inheritance, and parochialism, Kiran, starts from a point of disadvantage on account of her gender and pedigree, to battle her way in a bid to acquire power on her own rules.
Sex And The Second Sex In Anurag Kashyap’s World Of Films
And although Kashyap’s woman is often the...
Satyajit Ray's Sonar Kella, the first of the two films he made on the Feluda series
Why Feluda Works
When we talk of re-birth of Feluda on screen with...
Filming Dreams: Desire As Power In Gitanjali Rao’s Animation Movies
Filming Dreams: Desire As Power In Gitanjali Rao’s Animation Movies
Gitanjali...
Who can forget Madhubala’s naughty flouncing of skirts to the sensuous yet charming tunes of ‘Aiyee Mehrbaan' (Howrah Bridge, 1958) (Pic: Youtube)
Critiquing Sexuality: Tracing the Changing Sensuality of the Popular Hindi Film Heroine (1950s-2000s)
The late 1960s in turn...
What Is Acting
What Is Acting
Michael Chekhov, a great Russian...
Alex looking straight at the camera with the eyeballs slightly above centre (Pic: Amazon)
The Need For A Visual Syntax
The quest to create strong, powerful and...
Tapan Sinha's Khudito Pashan (Pic: Youtube)
Cinematic Adaptations Of Rabindranath
Since Tagore’s...
Masculin, féminin Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya Director: Jean-Luc Godard (Pic: Amazon)
Space Sound Color: Giving Life To An Art Film
Since its nascent beginnings, the so-called art film...
Dialogue in a way authenticates the speaker as a real person rather than a mere imaginary character of the filmic tale.
Visible Voice And Imaginary Appearance: Let Her Absence Speak For Herself
When...
The whole of scene of the film The Draughtsman’s Contract is set in 1694 in the vast estate, were young and modern painter Mr. Nevill signed a contract with Mrs. Herbert about 12 drawing of her husband’s estate. (Pic: Youtube)
The Relationship Between Film And Other Art Forms
Peter...
New York: Capturing The Essence
New York: Capturing The Essence
New York is much more than a studio...
Bobby Deol in Oye Lucky Lucky Oye
Screening Delhi
Films that deal with Delhi as a city largely...
Taylor and Van Johnson find romantic fulfillment in The Last Time I Saw Paris
City and Cinema: The Cinematic City of Paris
Cinema is a powerful signifying...
Marriage of Maria Braun
A Nazi City – Berlin in the Films
Interestingly, the film makers trying...
Dibakar Banerjee
LSD And The Great Indian Middle Class In The Films Of Dibakar Banerjee
One of...
Europe and Hollywood: Depiction of Second World War in Movies
Europe and Hollywood: Depiction of Second World War in Movies
Movies...
Metal Gear Solid 4 and Postcolonial History
Metal Gear Solid 4 and Postcolonial History
Metal Gear Solid...
Videos To Voice
Videos To Voice
Community Video is a unique...
Three Movies of the Digital Age
Three Movies of the Digital Age
The DVC phenomenon shows that...
Neocolonialism and Videogame Culture
Neocolonialism and Videogame Culture
Videogame culture offers...
Displaced Nationalism: Popular Indian Film’s Disconnect with the Nation
Displaced Nationalism: Popular Indian Film’s Disconnect with the Nation
In...
Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen in Indrani
Inhabiting Passionate Spaces: Reframing of Intimacy in 50’s Bengali ‘Romantic Films’
Throughout...
Demystifying The Popular Item Number Trend: Indian Cinema
Demystifying The Popular Item Number Trend: Indian Cinema
Since...
Movies and the Quest for Collective Identity in the Indian Diaspora
Movies and the Quest for Collective Identity in the Indian Diaspora
Many...


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