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Layla M | Film Review by MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. To have a radicalized young Muslim girl as the protagonist in an international cinema, without being judgmental, is not easy. Being sympathetic to her journeys, and humanizing her fate is extremely challenging. That is what Layla M almost successfully does. Dutch filmmaker Milke de Jong’s Layla M tries to subtly humanize the
» Read moreIsmael Ferroukhi’s film Le Grand Voyage takes the viewer on a pilgrimage of soul, through subtle and striking transformations, writes MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. There isn’t a thing called way; rather it is what you make when you walk, goes an Urdu saying. Le Grand Voyage is about the paths one is bound to take in a life time. Not in the obligatory
» Read moreHow could journeys transform our souls? American movie The Way, directed by Emilio Estevez in 2011, offers many insights, says MUHAMMED NOUSHAD in this review. Ways are endless. More endless are their offerings of the unexpected. It’s obvious that ways can take you to places and people. To unknown, unheard, unthought of, unimagined universes. However, where a way eventually leads you hardly matters
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To the Wonder is Terrence Malick’s visual poetry on the mysteries of love and human soul. A review by MOHAMMED NOUSHAD. Certain films allow you to read many layers of a life articulated using a loose storyline but its eloquent poetic narrative. In a sense, they are easy to interpret and very difficult – almost impossible – to review. Terrence
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