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Reviews

• Ankhon Dekhi

  Ankhon Dekhi 2013

  

  Vikram ★★★★½

  a film begins on a quasi-philosophical premise, deliberately taking on its innate contradictions and comes out the other side an effortlessly elegant miracle. how? multiple, seemingly conflicting dichotomies: an idiosyncratic…

• Rajnigandha

  Rajnigandha 1974

  

  Vikram ★★★★½

  vidya sinha's deepa, one of indian cinema's quietly indelible women. a portrait intimately sketched and performed, of comfort in solitude, of conversation most free when in bed with a girlfriend…

• Rajnigandha

  Rajnigandha 1974

  

  nrh ★★★★½

  from chaterjee, an anti-melodrama of stark simplicity and great ambiguity - all it takes is a trip away from home to call all you dreams into question.

• Irudhi Suttru

  Irudhi Suttru 2016

  

  nrh ★★★½

  the underdog boxing film made new again through physical specificity and attention to place (the open air arenas of chennai alone are enough to make this unique). cliche of plotting…

• Raees

  Raees 2017

  

  nrh ★★★★ 1

  impossible not to see the compromise here - the push/pull between an auteur director and auteur star, between competing registers (the modern "realist" hindi film, the '70s masala of salim-javed…