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The Workers Cup: An Ode to Labourers Who Built Qatar’s Stadiums for the World Cup 

Cinema, Film Review, Football, Sports

Adam Sobel’s The Workers Cup explores the lives of migrant labourers who built Qatar’s World Cup infrastructure, using a football tournament as a window into their dreams, hardships and resilience. Muhammed Noushad reviews the documentary as a subtle yet powerful critique of labour conditions, corporate public relations and the human cost hidden behind football’s spectacle. MUHAMMED NOUSHAD Football is not

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To Look Is Not To See: Walking in Mattanchery During Kochi-Muziris Biennale

Art, Culture, People, Society, Travel

A video by MUHAMMED NOUSHAD; Voice by PRANEETH JONATHAN. Kochi is ​like a mosaic, especially Mattancherry: a mix of diverse, contrasting, amazing binaries. It’s very symbolic in many ways. Over the centuries, Kochi has welcomed sailors and saints, traders and artisans, invaders and innocents, and lot more. Jews, Arab Muslims, Europeans, Gujaratis, Konkanis, and of course, various ethnicities of Malayalis have shared this

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​Remembering Escobar for a Reason After Three Decades

Cinema, Culture, Football, Popular Culture, Society, Sports

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD Andres Escobar’s ghost still seems to be casting a poignant shadow over Colombian football. Otherwise, why should a footballer fear for his life, for a sporting failure, even after 32 years since Escobar’s martyrdom in Colombia? I should, however, confess that this is not to suggest the country hasn’t changed, or its internal dynamics associated with football remain

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‘Nuremberg’: A Reminder That the Nazis Are Not Gone

Cinema, Film Review, History, World Cinema

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD watches Nuremberg and takes it as a warning that what happened in Nazi Germany can be repeated anywhere else. Were the German Nazis unique in their cruel disposition and capacity for genocidal evil? None of those who studied them, especially during the famous Nuremberg Trials, believed so. This was particularly true of Dr. Douglas Kelley, the chief psychiatrist

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Marakkar: An Epic Cinematic Disaster

Cinema, Film Review

MUHAMMED NOUSHAD sees Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea as an irresponsible and insipid spectacle rather than a work of art on history. Marakkar: Arabikkadalinte Simham (Marakkar: Lion of the Arabian Sea) opens with a disclaimer stating that the film is not a work of pure history, but rather one inspired by certain historical events. Whenever the historical record is

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