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to enjoy, ponder, wonder & relish!
Shiladitya Sarkar is a painter and writer based in Mumbai. He has exhibited in UK, USA, Hongkong, West Indies, Singapore and in various parts of India. He has written two books: Thirst of a minstrel and Abstract Reality. He writes on Art and Culture in various magazines including Art India.
Shiladitya Sarkar critiques Mrinal Sen's powerful Telugu film Oka Oorie Katha which challenges conventions, explores poverty's pervasiveness, and questions...
Filmmakers have often relied on gore as a mode to make the audience uncomfortable with our very own physiology. Amitava and Shiladitya dig deeper into this genre....
A particular film has often achieved an iconic status in which the lead of the film has used her/his eyes, for instance Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, or our every Om Puri in Ardh Satya. Eyes,...
Raise the Red lantern film remains rooted in the everyday of a traditional family, and yet hints at state atrocities committed at Tiananmen Square. ...