India’s representative at this year’s (virtual) Fantasia International Film Festival was Kriya, written and directed by Sidharth Srinivasan. At a nightclub party, the DJ, a young man named Neel (Noble Luke), ends up hooking up with a girl, who eventually invites him to her house. Soon enough, what seemed like a regular, fun night, turns into something else. Neel finds out that Sitara’s relatives –including her mother Tara Devi (Avantika Akerkar), her younger sister Sara (Kanak Bhardwaj), a friend of the family and their housemaid Magdali (Anuradha Majumder) – are congregated for the patriarch’s last rites. Our protagonist knows something is wrong. Sitara appears to have her own agenda, much like her mother, which makes us...
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- 9/8/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Religious horror, whether we speak about classics such as William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” or more recent examples like Keith Thomas’ “The Vigil”, hold an interesting premise by definition. The idea that out of the everlasting battle between good and evil or that faith can bring forth monsters able to destroy a family, is quite intriguing to say the least, shedding light on the nature of faith, but also on the relationship of faith, family and modernity. With regard to his most recent directorial effort “Kriya” writer and filmmaker Sidharth Srinivasan (“Soul of Sand”) explains how the story “was born out of an acutely personal reaction to what was happening in my country, where Hindu fundamentalism and chauvinistic religious persecution were ripping India apart”. Thus, “Kriya” becomes a story about the problematic notion of religion being an extension of images of gender and patriarchy as well as a feature which,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Stars: Noble Luke, Navjot Randhawa, Avantika Akerkar, M.D. Asif, Kishan Bahurupiya, Kanak Bhardwaj, Anuradha Majumder, Tapesh Sharma, Narender Sihag | Written and Directed by Sidharth Srinivasan
New Dheli writer and director Sidharth Srinivasan (Soul of Sand) brings us Kriya, a nightmarish Hindi-indie horror with fantastical and magical elements. There’s a surrealist tone at the epicentre of Kriya, one that drives the whole film forth with gusto and a remarkable freshness, making this film something unlike anything I’ve ever really seen before.
The story here isn’t necessarily one that rolls off the tongue in explanation. It’s, in a nutshell, a tale of a guy who meets a girl named Sitara in a nightclub and becomes immediately besotted with her, entranced and transfixed by her, but there’s more to this seductive beauty than our initial meeting would cause us to think. When they head back to Sitara’s place,...
New Dheli writer and director Sidharth Srinivasan (Soul of Sand) brings us Kriya, a nightmarish Hindi-indie horror with fantastical and magical elements. There’s a surrealist tone at the epicentre of Kriya, one that drives the whole film forth with gusto and a remarkable freshness, making this film something unlike anything I’ve ever really seen before.
The story here isn’t necessarily one that rolls off the tongue in explanation. It’s, in a nutshell, a tale of a guy who meets a girl named Sitara in a nightclub and becomes immediately besotted with her, entranced and transfixed by her, but there’s more to this seductive beauty than our initial meeting would cause us to think. When they head back to Sitara’s place,...
- 8/26/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 24th edition as a virtual event accessible to movie lovers across Canada, with a wild assortment of scheduled screenings, panels, and workshops taking place online from August 20 through September 2, 2020. The decision to launch a digital edition of the famed genre festival was born from Fantasia’s desire to keep the health and safety of its attendees a top priority during the current global health crisis, while still offering daring, much-needed new genre entertainment to residents of Canada and supporting the breakout filmmakers of the year.
The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early August. In the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a selected first wave of titles.
Makoto Tezuka adapts the legendary manga “Tezuka’s Barbara”!
One night, a famous novelist encounters a young, seemingly homeless woman in an overpass tunnel. He brings her home, which sets him...
The festival’s full lineup will be announced in early August. In the meantime, Fantasia is excited to reveal a selected first wave of titles.
Makoto Tezuka adapts the legendary manga “Tezuka’s Barbara”!
One night, a famous novelist encounters a young, seemingly homeless woman in an overpass tunnel. He brings her home, which sets him...
- 6/12/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Thackeray
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Amrita Rao
Directed by Abhijeet Panse
Bal Thackeray… sorry Balasaheb Thackeray(in the film an unsuspecting character gets slapped by a Shiv Sena soldier for saying the Demi God’s name without the reverential suffix) played the chauvinistic card with a masterminded focus. He knew how to tap the Marathi Manoos’ latent pride and also how to harness it into a violent outpouring.
Many of his opponents, including the unfortunate Morarjee Desai(unfortunate, as he is played by Rajesh Khera) thought of his campaign to cleanse Maharashtra to be almost a ratification of Hitler’s Nazism.
Think Jews. Think Bihar and Up’s Bhaiyyas and the South Indian Udipi restaurateurs being chased out of Mumbai by violent Sainiks. Think Hitler. Think Trump. If you spot the difference, let me know.
The film on Balasaheb certainly doesn’t squander the opportunity to portray the man as infinitely intolerant of migrants.
Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Amrita Rao
Directed by Abhijeet Panse
Bal Thackeray… sorry Balasaheb Thackeray(in the film an unsuspecting character gets slapped by a Shiv Sena soldier for saying the Demi God’s name without the reverential suffix) played the chauvinistic card with a masterminded focus. He knew how to tap the Marathi Manoos’ latent pride and also how to harness it into a violent outpouring.
Many of his opponents, including the unfortunate Morarjee Desai(unfortunate, as he is played by Rajesh Khera) thought of his campaign to cleanse Maharashtra to be almost a ratification of Hitler’s Nazism.
Think Jews. Think Bihar and Up’s Bhaiyyas and the South Indian Udipi restaurateurs being chased out of Mumbai by violent Sainiks. Think Hitler. Think Trump. If you spot the difference, let me know.
The film on Balasaheb certainly doesn’t squander the opportunity to portray the man as infinitely intolerant of migrants.
- 1/26/2019
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
A still from the opening film “Out in the Dark”
Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2014 will open with Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark (Israel, Palestine, USA), a love story between an ambitious Palestinian student and an idealistic Israeli lawyer caught in a minefield of socio-political conflict.
The festival which will take place from May 21 – May 25 at Liberty Cinema, New Marine Lines and Alliance Française de Bombay; will screen around 154 films from 31 countries including shorts and features in both narrative and documentary category.
Twenty-eight Indian films will be screened at the festival. National Award winning director Ravi Jadhav’s Marathi short film Mitraa, based on Vijay Tendulkar’s play Mitrachi Goshta, will be screened on Saturday May 24, 4.45 pm at Liberty Cinema in a short film package ‘Indian Showcase’.
Pradipta Ray who was the winner of Riyad Wadia Award for Emerging Indian Filmmaker at Kashish 2012 will return with Bengali...
Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival 2014 will open with Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark (Israel, Palestine, USA), a love story between an ambitious Palestinian student and an idealistic Israeli lawyer caught in a minefield of socio-political conflict.
The festival which will take place from May 21 – May 25 at Liberty Cinema, New Marine Lines and Alliance Française de Bombay; will screen around 154 films from 31 countries including shorts and features in both narrative and documentary category.
Twenty-eight Indian films will be screened at the festival. National Award winning director Ravi Jadhav’s Marathi short film Mitraa, based on Vijay Tendulkar’s play Mitrachi Goshta, will be screened on Saturday May 24, 4.45 pm at Liberty Cinema in a short film package ‘Indian Showcase’.
Pradipta Ray who was the winner of Riyad Wadia Award for Emerging Indian Filmmaker at Kashish 2012 will return with Bengali...
- 5/19/2014
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 13th Mumbai Film Festival, a Reliance entertainment initiative announced an impressive line-up of about 200 films under various sections films for the festival earlier today at a press conference held by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami) chairman, Shyam Benegal, trustee Amit Khanna and Mff director Srinivasan Narayanan. Scheduled to be held from October 13 to 20, 2011 with Cinemax Versova as the main hub of the festival and screenings programmed at Metro Big Cinemas and Cinemax Sion, the 13th Mumbai Film Festival will showcase the best of truly global cinema. Shyam Benegal, Chairman, Mami announced that the Brad Pitt starrer Moneyball will be the Opening Film at the festival and Morgan Freeman starrer Dolphin Tale will be the Closing Film. Among the spectacular list of films that will have their India premieres include the highly talked about Melancholia, directed by Lars Von Tier, The Whistle Blower starring Rachel Weiz, George Clooney's...
- 9/20/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
The 13th Mumbai Film Festival, a Reliance entertainment initiative announced an impressive line-up of about 200 films under various sections films for the festival earlier today at a press conference held by Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (Mami) chairman, Shyam Benegal, trustee Amit Khanna and Mff director Srinivasan Narayanan. Scheduled to be held from October 13 to 20, 2011 with Cinemax Versova as the main hub of the festival and screenings programmed at Metro Big Cinemas and Cinemax Sion, the 13th Mumbai Film Festival will showcase the best of truly global cinema. Shyam Benegal, Chairman, Mami announced that the Brad Pitt starrer Moneyball will be the Opening Film at the festival and Morgan Freeman starrer Dolphin Tale will be the Closing Film. Among the spectacular list of films that will have their India premieres include the highly talked about Melancholia, directed by Lars Von Tier, The Whistle Blower starring Rachel Weiz, George Clooney's...
- 9/20/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
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