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There are two important questions asked by characters in Ashvin Kumar’s No Fathers In Kashmir. An old man whose son has gone missing asks a freedom-seeking militant sympathizer who he wants…

In its quest to explore unseen– in cinema— places in India, Qasim Khallow’s Gone Kesh goes to the small hill station of Siliguri, though the story of a young woman’s travails could have…

Just Half Truths The murder of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two young sons in 1999, by a group of right wing goons had shaken the conscience of the…

Bungle In The Jungle Chuck Russell (The Mask,  Eraser, The Scorpion King) has been imported from Hollywood to direct a laughably simplistic and old-fashioned film, that anybody local could have…

Saffron Courage When Havildar Ishar Singh—played by Akshay Kumar– the protagonist of Anurag Singh’s Kesari, is about to go into a battle that will result in the death of his small regiment,…

Hazy Picture Ritesh Batra’s much-acclaimed film The Lunchbox, was about the unlikely connection between a middle-aged man and a lonely young woman. His latest, Photograph, could be described in the same words, only…

Land Of Half Lives News footage coming out of Kashmir is full of violence, and soldiers watching over an uneasy calm that could blow up in their faces if they…

Another Toilet Katha The problem of a lack of sanitation exists in India, and Toilet : Ek Prem Katha brought it to the notice of mainstream cinema audiences, while documentaries continue to…

Love, Lies and Suspense For Sujoy Ghose, whose biggest hit so far has been Kahaani, the Spanish film The Invisible Guest (Oriol Paulo, 2016) , must have been an attractive project to remake. …

All Noise, Little Fun Third in the Dhamaal series, this one too has a bunch of people chasing money, in It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World mode, which is one major thing that’s…