Photograph Movie Review: A Tender, Meditative, Poetic Film
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 Worlds Collide
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, But With Winsome Little Touches
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
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”
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 Films To Look Forward To In 2019
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
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
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
The director tells us how he’s become a better filmmaker since The Lunchbox and his future plans for his own production company
The Sense Of An Ending Review: A Meditation On Storytelling
Ritesh Batra’s film about a man who reunites with his first love after a letter and a diary force him to confront the past is essentially a story about the language of storytelling
Ritesh Batra: 3 Tips To Adapt A Novel Into A Film
Literary adaptations are difficult but with two of them under his belt, the filmmaker is well placed to offer an insight into what makes them tick
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Download The Script Of The Lunchbox
From the time it was screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, The Lunchbox had a dream run, becoming a global box-office success and a darling of critics across the…
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