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Watching ‘Navalny’ After his Assassination: Lessons of Fearlessness

Cinema, Film Review

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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Suffering in ‘The Whale’: Oscillating Between Physical and Emotional

Cinema

The Whale has stereotypical scenes of fat bodies, though its makers claim to establish the humanity of obese souls. However, the lead actor Brendan Fraser does a remarkable job, opines MUHAMMED NOUSHAD. “Do you ever get the feeling that people are incapable of not caring?” asks a dying Charlie, an excessively obese man, in The Whale, to his only friend

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