Namrata Joshi
- Features
Why are award-winning Indian documentaries struggling to find audiences at home?
While Indian documentaries are riding high at international festivals, at home filmmakers are struggling to connect them to cinemagoers.
- Reviews
‘The Adamant Girl’: Berlin Review
A road trip to a shaman forms the basis of Vinothraj PS’s follow-up to ‘Pebbles’
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‘The World Is Family’: IDFA Review
Veteran documentarian Anand Patwardhan turns the camera on his own parents to reflect on India’s turbulent history
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‘The Spark’: Busan Review
A filmmaker is out to wreak bloody revenge in this hybrid docu/drama set in the sacred Hindu city of Varanasi
- Reviews
‘The Stranger’: Busan Review
A young Bangladeshi boy struggles to connect with his largely absent father – and his true self – in this coming-of-age drama
- Features
The story behind Zarrar Kahn's Directors’ Fortnight title ‘In Flames’
Zarrar Kahn’s journey to premiering his debut feature In Flames in Directors’ Fortnight has traversed Pakistan, Canada and a series of international labs and markets.
- Reviews
‘Bheed’: Review
Anubhav Sinha’s black-and-white drama takes an unflinching look at India’s Covid-19 migration crisis
- Reviews
‘Mrs Chatterjee Vs Norway’: Review
Rani Mukerji is a mother trying to reclaim her children in this Norway-set real-life drama
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‘Joram’: Rotterdam Review
Devashish Makhija’s cat-and-mouse thriller is a race across India’s troubled interior
- Reviews
‘Pathaan’: Review
Bollywood emerges victorious from a troubled time with Shah Rukh Khan returning to the big screen as a Bond-like action hero
- Reviews
‘Dogs’ ('Kuttey’): Review
Bollywood’s first major release of the year falls short of expectations
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‘Cirkus’: Review
Rohit Shetty’s extravagant take on ’The Comedy Of Errors’ is an exercise in excess
- Reviews
‘Last Film Show’: Review
Oscar-shortlisted, semi-autobiographical drama witnesses an impoverished Indian boy attempt to escape into cinema
- Reviews
‘Declaration’: Review
Mahesh Narayanan’s Netflix pick-up plays out in Delhi as a couple deals with the fallout from a sex tape
- Reviews
‘Amar Colony’: Tallinn Review
Feature debut from India plays out inside a crumbling building in the teeming city of Shimla
- Reviews
‘A Place Of Our Own’: Review
Indian drama from Bhopal grassroots group Ektara Collective follows two transgender women after they’re evicted from their home
- Reviews
‘Ram Setu’: Review
Amazon Prime’s first foray into Indian film production stars Akshay Kumar as a conflicted archaeologist
- Reviews
’The Legend Of Maula Jatt’: Review
Reportedly the most expensive Pakistani movie ever made, the ‘Maula Jat’ remake heads out into international markets