Murtaza Ali Khan

LOADED WITH HOPE AND OPTIMISM, ‘THE LAST COLOR’ IS VIKAS KHANNA’S ODE TO BENARES

“Can the city of the dead also outlast the rest of extant civilisation? Can a vast number of its women…

4 years ago

FREE FROM NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS, ‘BHUVAN SHOME’ IS AN UNDISPUTED MASTERWORK

MUBI is known for bringing cinematic classics back in limelight. The platform has started the New Year 2021 by showcasing…

5 years ago

‘Kaagaz’ marks Satish Kaushik’s emphatic return to direction

Films based on real events have tremendously grown in popularity in recent years as far as Bollywood is concerned. Amongst…

5 years ago

AK vs AK is a pretentious, self-indulgent film that offers little novelty

“Metacinema, also meta-cinema, is a mode of filmmaking in which the film informs the audience that they are watching a…

5 years ago

Best of 2020: Hindi films and series

The year has proven to be a rather interesting year for the Hindi entertainment industry. At a time when Covid-19…

5 years ago

WHY ‘THE STAND’ IS NOT AN UNWORTHY ADAPTATION OF STEPHEN KING’S SEMINAL DARK FANTASY NOVEL

Not many authors have consistently written best-selling books that get regularly adapted into films and series. Among those who have…

5 years ago

‘UNPAUSED’: A MIXED-BAG AFFAIR THAT FAILS TO MATCH THE MAGIC OF ‘PUTHAM PUDHU KAALAI’

Following its Tamil anthology film Putham Pudhu Kaalai, Amazon Prime Video has come out with the Hindi anthology film Unpaused, also shot…

5 years ago

THE 6TH KIFF TO SCREEN FILMS IN 700 VILLAGES

The 6th edition of the Khajuraho International Film Festival (KIFF) is being organised both offline and online owing to Covid-19…

5 years ago

FILMS ABOUT FILMS ARE RARELY AS GOOD AS ‘MANK’

The 1941 American film Citizen Kane is widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. The film is co-written and directed by…

5 years ago

Bryan Cranston is back in his element in legal drama ‘Your Honor’

Bryan Cranston is synonymous with Breaking Bad and vice versa. The statement is perhaps just as axiomatic as saying that sun rises…

5 years ago

NAMBIAR’S TECHNICAL MASTERY, RANE’S INTENSITY MAKE ‘TAISH’ UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE

By choosing to release Taish simultaneously as a film as well as a six-episode series, Bejoy Nambiar has mounted an interesting storytelling…

5 years ago

Industry: An unapologetic take on the world of high finance

Industry, the new HBO / BBC series, takes us to the heart of London’s trading floors and exposes us to…

5 years ago