What is one human trying to live on the state welfare as he is unable to work for poor health? To the state he is just a beneficiary or a to-be-beneficiary, if he has applied for the benefits. What is a person who wants to get the welfare for jobless? He is also…
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God and Death in The Seventh Seal
“I want to ask him about God. He must know. He if anyone.” Says Knight Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow) in his search for God, to restore or eliminate what little faith remains in him after witnessing the miseries, cruelty of men and the silence of God. The one referred as him is…
Emotions in The Son’s Room
Both the healer and the healed have at least one thing in common between them: both have a multitude of emotions inside them. Giovanni (Nanni) Moretti’s Palme d’Or winning 2001 film, La Stanza Del Figlio (The Son’s Room) gifts us with the clouds of sorrow and grief which consumes a happy family comprising a…
Raman Ragahav 2.0 is fully black
“I walk only on the black….” says Ramanna, one of the darkest characters played by Nawazuddin Siddiqui on screen, pretty much sums up what Anurag Kashyap has to offer in his new crime drama Raman Raghav 2.0. It tells a contemporary version of the infamous serial killer of the 60s Raman Raghav in a…
Crisis in Akdin Pratidin
Crisis brings out the best in people. The reaction to a moment of conflict reflects the human soul. But nature has everything in complements; every coin has two sides- human nature may be pure, may be contaminated by evil. In some critical junctures of life, people are blindfolded by a dark layer of…
Saul Fia: A masterpiece
The holocaust drama, Saul Fia (Son of Saul), is about a prisoner in Auschwitz (Birkenau) concentration camp, Auslander Saul. He is actually a sonderkommando, a prisoner who burns the dead and cleans the camp as a price for a few months of life. Laszlo Nemes and Clara Royer take two days from the life…
Samya Mondal 