Shonali Bose
Margarita With A Straw Turns 9
At the end of Shonali Bose’s Margarita With A Straw one wasn’t sure whether one had just watched a film about a very special life of a specially abled girl who can't move a limb without her mother's help, but has the hots for at least two boys and one woman. Or was one watching an extraordinary rendition of the mother-daughter relationship done in shades so distinctive and deep, you leave behind a part of your being with the film when you leave the theatre even as you take home with you something invaluable. Margarita With A Straw, so named because its cerebral palsy-affli | Click Here...
Review Of Amazon’s Modern Love: Is Well Worth Investing In
Modern Love: Mumbai (Amazon Prime Video, 6 films directed by Alankrita Shrivastava, Hansal Mehta,Nupur Asthana, Vishal Bharadwaj, Dhruv Sehgal, Shonali Bose) Rating: **** Three of the six films—we can’t call them episodes as they are all self contained independent narratives—are absolute winners. The stand-out films here are clearly Hansal Mehta’s Baai, Vishal Bhardwaj’s Mumbai Dragon and Shonali Bose’s Raat Rani, the last being especial for Fatima Sana Shaikh’s rousing performance,but more on that later. Hansal Mehta’s Baai features Pratik Gan | Click Here...
Zoya Akhtar To Gauri Shinde: 5 Contemporary Women Directors Who Are Here To Make A Difference
While women have actively joined the gender conversation in every walk of life, there continues to be a dismaying paucity of women directors all over the world. In India after Aparna Sen , there was no significant female filmmaker until Nandita Das arrived with Firaaq in 2008. Happily there are women in the millennium making a name as filmmakers in what is clearly a man’s world. Here are my favourites. 1. Zoya Akhtar: Perhaps the single-most influential female director since Aparna Sen and certainly the most prolific. Her oeuvre so far | Click Here...