The Shocking Secret Mrinal Sen Kept for 18 Years — And How one Humiliating Night in a Hotel Room Transformed Indian Parallel Cinema Forever
Everyone who knows anything about Mrinal Sen, the famous rebellious Bengali director of Cannes, Berlin, and Venice award-winning movies, who stood up against the system and gave rise to...
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The Perfect Neighbour: A Chilling New Kind of True Crime Documentary on Netflix
Available on: NetflixStreaming globally as of 17 October 2025Duration: 1h 36minTrigger warning: The film deals with violence, gun death, racial tension,...
The Silent Era and the Rise of Narrative Storytelling
The history of cinema compared to any other art form is very short. It is not even 200 years old. And...
A Cigarette, a Stranger, and the Lost Art of Conversation
Me and my brother go outside near the park that is a bit distant from our home. It might be due...
More Than Just a Family Story: Ghachar Ghochar and the Psychology of Status
I have recently read Ghachar Ghochar, a book by Vivek Shanbhag. I would love to recommend that book in my 100...
Before Inception and Oppenheimer: The Films You Didn’t Know Christopher Nolan Made
Everyone talks about Inception and Interstellar—but what if I told you Nolan’s obsession with time, identity, and paranoia began with a...
Why Watching Stanley Kubrick Once is Never Enough
What do you think the most important element of a film is? Is it the frame, is it the theme or...
Netflix’s Aap Jaisa Koi: A Rom-Com That Feels More Forced Than Funny
Rom-com has always been one of the most widely accepting popular genre. And for the same reason doing justice to this...
Let’s Talk About the Frame: Gullak’s Quietest Scene That Speaks the Loudest
If I had written Top 10 Hindi Webseries to Watch Before You Die, Gullak would have been on the list at any cost. Though...
Death of a salesman: Arthur Miller’s Drama of Lost Hopes
Explore Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman through the lens of disillusionment, the crumbling American Dream, and the haunting tragedy of...
