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MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews Kishkindha Kaandam and appreciates how the makers deal with the idea of memory in a mystery thriller. Memory is mystery in itself. You don’t have control over it, and you often struggle with it in different ways. Sometimes, being haunted by memory and at times, being abandoned by it. Memory is also a growing area of serious
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MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews reputed Sri Lankan filmmaker Prasanna Vithanage’s multi-lingual movie Paradise. How worthy is a life, when it belongs to someone from a subjugated ethnic community with absolutely no privilege? In Paradise, this question becomes central to a realm of several moral and ideological questions when a young Tamil boy from an estate breathes his last in a small
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MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews Oscar-winning American Fiction and analyses the politics of representation in pop culture. In elite educated circles, almost everywhere, there is apparently an ever-growing fascination about listening to the voice of the other: Blacks, indigenous tribes, Dalits, Muslims, migrants, queer, refugees and so on. Although this rising trend would look innocuous and inclusive, with its openness to diversity
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Amar Singh Chamkila, a self-made performer hailing from an underprivileged Dalit Sikh family from rural Punjab was a real-life hero, a victim and a martyr. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews the biopic directed by Imtiaz Ali. Amar Singh Chamkila was a man of controversies and contradictions. The highest-selling artist in the history of Punjab’s music industry, Chamkila was gunned down in 1988
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MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews the documentary Navalny as its protagonist Alexie Navalny, Russia’s main opposition leader, died under mysterious circumstances lately. Originally published in Madhyamam Eng: https://madhyamamonline.com/entertainment/movie-review/watching-navalny-after-his-assassination-lessons-of-fearlessness-1267607 When Navalny won the Oscar for the best documentary last year, I was eager to watch it, but couldn’t find it anywhere online. Last month, on Feb 16, the sad news broke: Alexie Navalny
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