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Review Of Insha: Is A Goodhearted But Dull Story Of Humanism
Insha(Neestream , Malayalam) Starring Prathana Sandeep, Directed by Siju Vijayan Rating: ** Sometimes the best of intentions can go to waste, specially if you have no backup hardware for your emotions. Insha is heartfelt emotionally flush but finally too aimless and dull to put forward the dreams and yearnings of a 13-year old girl, well played by young Prathana Sandeep. At the cusp of puberty, one would expect the girl’s immobile condition to secrete a chaos of dreams and yearnings. But none of that. No curiosity about life and, | Click Here...
Review Of Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam: Doesn’t Feel Gimmicky, Although It Is
Santhoshathinte Onnam Rahasyam(Malayalam, NeeStream) Starring Rima Kallingal and Jithin Punthenchery Direction: Don Palathara Rating: ** ½ One shot, 85 minutes, a squabbling couple driving down to a pregnancy clinic to ascertain whether she is in the family way. The family certainly doesn’t get in the way of this couple as they battle it out hurling accusations and insults at each other during a road journey that threatens to tear down their relationship, until you fear he will crash the car while she screams at him for no reason. ‘He | Click Here...
Review Of Madaathy: A Problematic Tamil Film On Women’s Disempowerment
Madaathy: An Unfairy Tale(NeeStream) Directed by Leena Manimekalai Rating: ** ½ This is a very disturbing film. Not only because it features two reprehensible rape sequences (one of them a gangrape of a minor) but also because the director Leena Manimekalai’s basic premise is loosely applicable to social reality. She wants us to feel a collective outrage when her free-spirited young protagonist Yosana (Ajmina Kasim) is brutalized. Of course we do. But the underlining subtext of rebellion—that Yosana will roam freely in the dark jungles in the night no mat | Click Here...
Review Of The Great Indian Kitchen: Deserves A Standing Ovation
The Great Indian Kitchen(NeeStream) Directed by Jeo Baby Rating: **** Vikas Khanna finds cooking to be not only inspiring and artistic but also therapeutic. But for most housewives, it is a thankless chore of endless drudgery. The cutting, chopping, steaming, frying, sizzling , washing, chomping….Jeo Baby’s fascinating study of the kitchen as a patriarchal prison is a marvel of sounds, all stripped of extraneous embellishment. This is the first Indian film I’ve seen which does away with the background score completely. For that alone, Jeo Babyâ | Click Here...