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• We Own This City focuses on the rot within an institution

  by utuk utuk June 7, 2022
  We Own This City is a disturbing comment through real incidents that makes you introspect on the power of guns and a badge anywhere; and how an entire system work towards protecting those that commit wrongdoing in the name of a greater good David Simon and George Pelacanos are amongst the most resp...

• Abhay Deol's bland sports drama Jungle

  by utuk utuk June 3, 2022
  Abhay Deol's Jungle Cry is neither a thrilling sports drama nor an efficient social commentary that strives to join the dots between the inextricable hold of poverty, caste, and sport in the country. In 2007, 12 tribal underprivileged children from Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences lifted the un...

• Once Upon a Cinema: Who was Satyadev Dubey?

  by utuk utuk June 1, 2022
  Who really was Satyadev Dubey? Alongside his trailblazing work on stage, Dubey also had strong ties with Hindi and Marathi cinema. Amborish writes. Vijay Anand, Dev Ananddd The two men met at St. Xavier’s College, Bombay around the early 1950s. Both of them would go on to shape storytelling i...

• Honoured to do my bit

  by utuk utuk May 30, 2022
  Papon, who walked the Cannes red carpet, opens up on taking Assamese cinema to the global scale, wearing an Assamese shawl at the festival and more. Singer Papon was among the luminaries from India to have graced the prestigious Cannes Film Festival as the cultural ambassador of Assam. He also atte...

• Looking into universality

  by utuk utuk May 24, 2022
  The film, ‘Thinking of Him’, is based on the encounter and deep spiritual, platonic friendship between Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo, an Argentine high-society lady Rarely one comes across a biographical cinematic production which explores both the personal life story and expl...