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Reconstruction
Rachel Seiffert and Bernhard Schlink (see my previous post) aren’t the only ones to embed their sentiments of post-WW II Germany in my mind. Long before I read Seiffert and Schlink, I remember seeing...
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Castemopolitan Mumbai
Last Sunday, 4 January 2015, I had the opportunity of watching six short films on the broad theme of how caste is visible – and manifested – in metropolitan cities in India. The films were produced by...
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Revolution, Rags and Tatters
Four days ago, at the 5th Yashwant International Film Festival (YIFF 2015) in Mumbai, I watched a tense and poignant film on the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Honestly, my recollection of the Egyptian...
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Badlapur: Sriram Raghavan’s neo-noir
“Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest. And, like a forest it’s easy to lose your way… to get lost… to forget where you came in.” – Hattori Hanzō (from Quentin Tarantino’s film Kill Bill Vol...
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Is man good or evil?
Danny Archer: So you think because your intentions are good, they’ll spare you, huh? Benjamin Kapanay: My heart always told me that people are inherently good. My experience suggests otherwise. But...
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