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12 Years A Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Mohit

There’s a striking moment in the beginning portions of Steve McQueen’s third feature 12 Years A Slave, based on Solomon Northup’s memoir of the same name: we see the protagonist, actually a free man who was kidnapped and now enslaved, … Continue reading →

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Om Dar-B-Dar (Kamal Swaroop, India, 1988)

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Mohit

Kamal Swaroop’s cult film Om Dar-B-Dar (1988), which finally got a theatrical release over 25 years after it was made, could be described as, among many things, a pathbreaking postmodernist cinematic essay on India. It is a fantastical tale set … Continue reading →

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Gangs Of Wasseypur (Anurag Kashyap, 2012)

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Mohit

Warning: Contains spoilers. (Note: I’m writing about Gangs Of Wasseypur almost a year after I saw it, with a huge gap between the viewings of the two individual parts and only recently did I get a chance to watch them … Continue reading →

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