Orihinally published on Silverscreen India on April 7, 2021 Houses, like people, must have a key, the turn of which…
Review: Churuli (25th IFFK, 2021)
Originally published on Silverscreen India on February 16, 2021 Two policemen from a Malabar small-town disguise themselves as daily-wage labourers…
Letters From A Lockdown: Cinema In The Time Of A Pandemic
Published on Silverscreen.in on April 10, 2020 This epistolary piece is an exchange between film critic Aditya Shrikrishna and myself…
Note On Jallikattu
Jallikattu, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, is set in a village in Idukki populated by settlers involved in farming and…
Review: Jai Bhim (2021)
Published on Silverscreen India on November 2, 2021 Jai Bhim, directed by TJ Gnanavel, is a fictionalised account of a real…
IFFR 2022: A Mother Reclaims Her Body In Barbarian Invasion
Director: Tan Chui Mui Language: Chinese, Cantonese, MalayCountry: Hong Kong, Malaysia “When you are a mother, your body belongs to…
Fifty Years Ago, ‘Thulabharam’ Gave Malayalam Cinema Its First National Award-Winning Actress
Fifty years ago, when Malayalam cinema was on the cusp of a change, cinematographer-filmmaker A Vincent made Thulabharam, a hard-hitting social drama…
Review: Shyam Singha Roy (2021)
Originally published on Silverscreen India on December 26, 2021 The protagonist of Rahul Sangritayan’s Shyam Singha Roy is a writer who shoots…
Review: Shiddat (Hindi, 2021)
Originally published on Silverscreen India on October 1, 2021 The subject of illegal immigration gets a bizarre representation in Shiddat, a…
Review: Love Story (Telugu, 2021)
Originally published on Silverscreen India on September 24, 2021 Sekhar Kammula seems to have an odd affinity for generic film titles. Happy…
Review: Sunny (Malayalam, 2021)
Originally published on Silverscreen India on September 23, 2021 Ranjith Shankar’s Sunny is the second Malayalam feature film to feature the Covid-19…
Review: Kaanekkaane (Malayalam, 2021)
Originally published on Silverscreen India on September 17, 2021 The title Kaanekkaane hints at something that happens in front of your eyes…
Review: Pidikittappulli (Malayalam, 2021)
Originally published on Silverscreen India on August 28, 2021 Debut director Jishnu Sreekandan’s Pidikittapulli (Fugitive), a comic caper, opens to a night…
Review: Tuck Jagadish (Telugu, 2021)
Originally published on Silverscreen India on September 10, 2021 (Spoiler Alert) Within the first eight minutes of Tuck Jagadish, a Telugu…
Aswathy Gopalakrishnan 