Mike Flanagan’s 2016 psychological thriller is a masterclass in tension-building. A gripping scare-a-thon about a deaf writer whose suburban house gets attacked by a notorious seri ... Read more
Mike Flanagan’s 2016 psychological thriller is a masterclass in tension-building. A gripping scare-a-thon about a deaf writer whose suburban house gets attacked by a notorious serial killer, Hush is a slow-burner that gradually reaches a narrative crescendo. Read more
Rituparno Ghosh’s 2008 travel drama Khela is a heartwarming story that revolves around the unexpected bond forged between an eccentric filmmaker Raja (played by Prosenjit Chatterje ... Read more
Rituparno Ghosh’s 2008 travel drama Khela is a heartwarming story that revolves around the unexpected bond forged between an eccentric filmmaker Raja (played by Prosenjit Chatterjee) and a precocious child, who’s cast as the lead in the filmmaker’s forthcoming film. Despite his wife’s long-standing desire to have a child, Raja is firmly against the idea. Read more
Police procedurals are engineered to draw one into the investigation in question. To an extent, that one is encouraged and prodded to build one’s own theories about how the events ... Read more
Police procedurals are engineered to draw one into the investigation in question. To an extent, that one is encouraged and prodded to build one’s own theories about how the events surrounding a certain crime would’ve gone down. This episode deals with the hit series A Confession. Read more
Coming-of-age Indian movies about childhood have mostly focused on issues that adults believe children deal with. But there have also been sensitive films such as Rockford and Taar ... Read more
Coming-of-age Indian movies about childhood have mostly focused on issues that adults believe children deal with. But there have also been sensitive films such as Rockford and Taare Zameen Par that closely followed adolescent life, with all its challenges and joys. One such film is Bubble Gum. Read more
There are films that touch a necessary nerve and there are those that furnish reality so elaborately that we find it too overwhelming to process. Today’s Lost and Found, Rakhee San ... Read more
There are films that touch a necessary nerve and there are those that furnish reality so elaborately that we find it too overwhelming to process. Today’s Lost and Found, Rakhee Sandilya’s Ribbon, is one such film. Read more
Thriller-comedies have forever managed varying success in Indian cinema. But Abhinay Deo’s Blackmail, our film for the day, surely serves a refreshing twist to the genre. Starring ... Read more
Thriller-comedies have forever managed varying success in Indian cinema. But Abhinay Deo’s Blackmail, our film for the day, surely serves a refreshing twist to the genre. Starring Irrfan Khan, Kirti Kulhari, Arunoday Singh and Divya Dutta. Read more
Strangers accidentally meeting and getting drawn to each other despite belonging to evidently different worlds has forever been a tried-and-tested mould in movies. But then there a ... Read more
Strangers accidentally meeting and getting drawn to each other despite belonging to evidently different worlds has forever been a tried-and-tested mould in movies. But then there are also those that furnish the same premise but filter it through such an authentic light that it makes for compelling cinema. And Ritesh Batra’s Photograph is one such masterpiece. Read more
Gurvinder Singh’s National Award-winner Chauthi Koot is a 2016 Punjabi thriller set in the ’80s, in the events that followed the infamous Operation Blue Star -- to eliminate Sikh m ... Read more
Gurvinder Singh’s National Award-winner Chauthi Koot is a 2016 Punjabi thriller set in the ’80s, in the events that followed the infamous Operation Blue Star -- to eliminate Sikh militants in Punjab. The film delves into how locals in rural areas in Punjab were targeted by both militants and the police who pulled them up for harbouring insurgents. Read more
Trapped, a 2016 thriller film. This Vikramaditya Motwane film manages to infuse dread and discomfort into a plot whose premise would sound only mildly unsettling at best. The film’ ... Read more
Trapped, a 2016 thriller film. This Vikramaditya Motwane film manages to infuse dread and discomfort into a plot whose premise would sound only mildly unsettling at best. The film’s story not only manages to furnish a series of turns that make this eventuality a reality, but it also ensures the lead’s desperate state of mind translates across the screen. The film has Rajkummar Rao in the lead role. Read more
Waiting, this 2016 film starring Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki Koechlin, turns the concept of grieving over its head. Its muted narrative occasionally laced with dark humour delves in ... Read more
Waiting, this 2016 film starring Naseeruddin Shah and Kalki Koechlin, turns the concept of grieving over its head. Its muted narrative occasionally laced with dark humour delves into the idea that while humans can get acclimated to extreme degrees of pain, moving on entirely can be an excruciating affair. Read more
