The 29th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), held in December 2024, witnessed a record-breaking attendance of 13,000 delegates—arguably the highest for any film festival in India. The book by V. K. Cherian, “Noon Films & Magical Renaissance of Malayalam...
Every era imprints its cultural vogue on its arts. Just over a decade following the onslaught of the information-technology wave thus the template of popular Malayalam cinema predictably underwent a radical change. Since someone has already coined a...
Throughout the history of cinema, the dominant ideology determined the content. It is predominantly capitalistic, male and heterosexual. Likewise, film criticism too established its territory. Malayalam cinema Tracing back to the fifties, film criticism popularised by...
Indian OTT Cinema is the ‘Third Big Bang’ in History of Indian Cinema: A Comparative Analysis of OTT Hindi Cinema versus Hindi Cinema Tradition Abstract: Watching films like The Archies (Akhter, 2023), Kho Gaye Hum Kahan (Singh, 2023) and Jane Jaan (Ghosh, 2023) makes...
We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honour that commitment, we will never be vanquished – but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned. –Mario Puzo, The Family If a body catch...
