Cinema Archive

  • Sourendra Kumar Das One of the Bollywood’s most coveted director Onir’s ‘I AM’ won the award for the Best Narrative Feature Film at the 2nd Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film...

    The Mumbai Queer Film Fest: The winners

    Sourendra Kumar Das One of the Bollywood’s most coveted director Onir’s ‘I AM’ won the award for the Best Narrative Feature Film at the 2nd Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film...

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  • By Sourendra Kumar Das Cast: Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Arjun Mathur, Abhimanyu Singh, Sanjay Suri, Anurag Kashyap, Purab Kohli, Shernaz Patel, Radhika Apte, Anurag Basu. Directed...

    I AM – Four Stories, One Film

    By Sourendra Kumar Das Cast: Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Arjun Mathur, Abhimanyu Singh, Sanjay Suri, Anurag Kashyap, Purab Kohli, Shernaz Patel, Radhika Apte, Anurag Basu. Directed...

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  • Review by Arijeet Chandra “The essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.” Made...

    Philadelphia (1997)

    Review by Arijeet Chandra “The essence of discrimination: formulating opinions about others not based on their individual merits, but rather on their membership in a group with assumed characteristics.” Made...

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  • This Valentine’s day, we look back at some of the most beautifully crafted gay themed love stories ever shown on screen. Films which made us laugh, smile and cry. Here...

    7 Best Gay Love Stories

    This Valentine’s day, we look back at some of the most beautifully crafted gay themed love stories ever shown on screen. Films which made us laugh, smile and cry. Here...

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  • Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun is a film based on complexities of relationships and multiple affairs. Gladrags model-turned actor (and dancer) Yuvraaj Parashar plays Rituparna Sen’s husband, Zeenat Aman’s son, Helen...

    Extra-Connubial Gay Affair…in Reel and Real Life

    Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun is a film based on complexities of relationships and multiple affairs. Gladrags model-turned actor (and dancer) Yuvraaj Parashar plays Rituparna Sen’s husband, Zeenat Aman’s son, Helen...

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  • Review by Harish Iyer The film had excellent PR… coupled with the human angle with the trigger created by the fact that the lead actor – Yuvraj was ostracized from...

    Movie Review: Dunno Y… Na Jane Kyun!

    Review by Harish Iyer The film had excellent PR… coupled with the human angle with the trigger created by the fact that the lead actor – Yuvraj was ostracized from...

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  • Review by Ratnesh Mysterious Skin is a moving film, disturbing and beautiful and painful. The film follows the lives of two teenagers Neil and Brian, who are somehow united by...

    Mysterious Skin

    Review by Ratnesh Mysterious Skin is a moving film, disturbing and beautiful and painful. The film follows the lives of two teenagers Neil and Brian, who are somehow united by...

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  • Review by Sourendra Kumar Das Film: Amen (Indian English Short Feature Film) Directors: Judhajit Bagchi and Ranadeep Bhattacharya Cast: Jitin Gulati and Karan Mehra Amen is an Indian English Short...

    Amen

    Review by Sourendra Kumar Das Film: Amen (Indian English Short Feature Film) Directors: Judhajit Bagchi and Ranadeep Bhattacharya Cast: Jitin Gulati and Karan Mehra Amen is an Indian English Short...

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  • Ratnesh The World Unseen takes us to apartheid-era South Africa, seen through the eyes of two women of Indian descent, Amina and Marium. The two are as different as they...

    The World Unseen

    Ratnesh The World Unseen takes us to apartheid-era South Africa, seen through the eyes of two women of Indian descent, Amina and Marium. The two are as different as they...

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  • Kishore Kumar Very often, we have at the centre of our lives a single point which gives us strength and purpose – a dream, an idea, a conviction, a vendetta,...

    A Single Man

    Kishore Kumar Very often, we have at the centre of our lives a single point which gives us strength and purpose – a dream, an idea, a conviction, a vendetta,...

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  • Karan Sood One afternoon, in 1996, R. Raj Rao called Riyad Vinci Wadia and asked if he could come around to show him some poems he had recently written. Raj had...

    Bomgay

    Karan Sood One afternoon, in 1996, R. Raj Rao called Riyad Vinci Wadia and asked if he could come around to show him some poems he had recently written. Raj had...

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  • Arijeet Chandra “Open Your Mind. And Everything Else.” Shortbus is an American film written and directed by John C Mitchell. The plot revolves around a weekly gathering of sexually driven...

    Shortbus

    Arijeet Chandra “Open Your Mind. And Everything Else.” Shortbus is an American film written and directed by John C Mitchell. The plot revolves around a weekly gathering of sexually driven...

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  • Ananya Dhote As you see this movie, you can almost feel a flower blooming inside of you. The bittersweet intricacies of love and attraction, the lonely feeling, little anxieties of...

    Show Me Love

    Ananya Dhote As you see this movie, you can almost feel a flower blooming inside of you. The bittersweet intricacies of love and attraction, the lonely feeling, little anxieties of...

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  • Arijeet Chandra The film opens with a scene in contemporary Moscow where a wrinkle faced old man happens to be interviewed by an American lady reporter. As their conversation proceeds...

    Another Country

    Arijeet Chandra The film opens with a scene in contemporary Moscow where a wrinkle faced old man happens to be interviewed by an American lady reporter. As their conversation proceeds...

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  • Arijeet Chandra “If there were a pill to make you straight, would you..?” Has anyone come across this question? Among us, one may find a person who somehow, at some...

    Fixing Frank

    Arijeet Chandra “If there were a pill to make you straight, would you..?” Has anyone come across this question? Among us, one may find a person who somehow, at some...

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