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Favourite Irrfan Movie: The Lunchbox Is An Ode To Love, Longing, and Loneliness

  • Posted on January 13, 2022
  • by Vishnupriya
Irrfan plays him with a visceral nuance, you almost feel as if you have seen, probably met him in your own life
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40 Breakthrough Indian Directorial Debuts

  • Posted on August 5, 2021August 5, 2021
  • by Team FC
On the 20th anniversary of Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai, we look at directorial debuts that changed the game
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10 Movie Trilogies To Binge-Watch In Lockdown

  • Posted on April 2, 2020May 13, 2020
  • by Suchin Mehrotra
From The Lord Of The Rings to The Planet Of The Apes, here are 10 great movie trilogies to watch this quarantine season
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Photograph Movie Review: A Tender, Meditative, Poetic Film

  • Posted on March 15, 2019May 8, 2020
  • by Anupama Chopra
The film is so quiet and so still in some parts, that you will get impatient. But it is evocative and its tenderness will stay with you
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Photograph Trailer Talk: Ritesh Batra’s Latest Sees Two People From Different Wor...

  • Posted on February 18, 2019May 20, 2020
  • by Team FC
Ritesh Batra’s new film starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra releases on 15th March
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Berlinale 2019: Photograph Movie Review – A Romance That’s A Little Too Low-Key...

  • Posted on February 13, 2019May 8, 2020
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
The danger of being a minimalist is that you have fewer notes to hit, and after a while, you run out of variations if the “plot” is small, too
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Berlin 2019: The ‘Gully Boy’ Press Screening, Plus 40 Years of Panorama

  • Posted on February 8, 2019September 21, 2019
  • by Baradwaj Rangan
No, not the review. But it was very different to watch a very musical movie with a very sedate festival audience.

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Slow-Burning Mumbai And A Leap Of Inter-Faith In Ritesh Batra’s “Photograph...

  • Posted on January 28, 2019
  • by Rahul Desai
The reason Photograph really works, despite an airy premise, is the character of Miloni, and especially Sanya Malhotra’s evolved performance
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10 Hindi Film To Look Forward To In 2019
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10 Hindi Films To Look Forward To In 2019

  • Posted on January 3, 2019May 11, 2020
  • by Suchin Mehrotra
Gully Boy, Brahmastra, Kalank and more – a look ahead at what Hindi cinema has in store in 2019
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10 Indian Directors Recommend Films You Must Watch

  • Posted on August 29, 2018May 15, 2020
  • by Team FC
Rajkumar Hirani, Ali Abbas Zafar, Ram Madhvani, Nagraj Manjule, Shakun Batra and more talk about their favourite movies and why you should watch them
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Top 50 Memorable Bollywood Characters: Mrs. Deshpande from The Lunchbox

  • Posted on June 11, 2018May 9, 2020
  • by Rahul Desai
In Ritesh Batra’s 2013 film, veteran Marathi actress Bharati Achrekar plays a faceless neighbour to Ila (Nimrat Kaur) who we only hear and never see. The two chat, gossip, exchange recipes and listen to ‘90s audiocassettes through their grilled windows
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Ritesh Batra On Wrapping His Film In Mumbai And Finding A Friend In Robert Redford

  • Posted on December 4, 2017May 14, 2020
  • by Mohini Chaudhuri
The director tells us how he’s become a better filmmaker since The Lunchbox and his future plans for his own production company
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