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Tag Archives: India
The Sand Storm / Trishagni (1988) Nabendu Ghosh, Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Alok Nath
The film is set in a Central Asian desert in the 1st Century B.C. A sandstorm strikes Read More »
The Warrior (2001) Asif Kapadia, Irrfan Khan, Puru Chibber, Aino Annuddin
Circa feudal India in the State of Rajasthan is a desert region that is ruled over by a cruel and sadistic Lord Read More »
Cloud Capped Star / Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013) Kamaleswar Mukherjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Ananya Chatterjee, Abir Chatterjee
To Ritwik Ghatak film was not merely a form of entertainment, but a weapon Read More »
Bazaar (1982) Sagar Sarhadi, Farooq Shaikh, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah
Najma and Salim are in love, but theirs is a platonic relationship, as Salim is a deep thinker Read More »
The First Chapter / Pehla Adhyay (1981) Vishnu Mathur, Madan Jain, Dinesh Shakul
The most obscure of the films to come out of the Indian New Wave, Pahla Adhyay is Vishnu Mathur’s only film. Read More »
The Bogeyman / Kummatty (1979) Govindan Aravindan, Master Ashokan, Sivasankaran Divakaran, Kothara Gopalkrishnan
The film is a Pied Piper-like figment of Malabar’s folklore about a partly mythic Read More »
Sexy Durga (2017) Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, Rajshri Deshpande, Bilas Chandrahasan Nair, Kannan Nayar
Durga, a north Indian migrant and a Keralite youth named Kabeer Read More »
The Touch / Sparsh (1980) Sai Paranjape, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Sudha Chopra
Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. Read More »
Runaway / Bari Theke Paliye (1958) Ritwik Ghatak, Param Bharak Lahiri, Padmadevi, Gyanesh Mukherjee
Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. Read More »