Favourite Irrfan Movie: The Lunchbox Is An Ode To Love, Longing, and Loneliness
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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Ritesh Batra
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40 Breakthrough Indian Directorial Debuts
On the 20th anniversary of Farhan Akhtar’s Dil Chahta Hai, we look at directorial debuts that changed the game
10 Movie Trilogies To Binge-Watch In Lockdown
From The Lord Of The Rings to The Planet Of The Apes, here are 10 great movie trilogies to watch this quarantine season
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 Wor...
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...
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
