February’s Cinema House takes on the idea of borders. The curation for this month is rooted in this question: what are the kinds of stories coming from storytellers in border states? What are the fractures that, unique to their world,…
Eight year old Dighu has recently moved with his mother and older sister from the city to his grandparents coastal village of Konkan and is finding it hard to adjust to his new life without his father who has disappeared…
In a village plagued by kidnapping fears, the church announces the arrival of a miraculous Virgin Mary statue along with a grim announcement from the village security head, Nengsal, who warns “ of an approaching apocalyptic darkness which will last…
Set in Kalupur, a neighbourhood in the old city of Ahmedabad, India, this slice-of-life film follows the daily life of Razzak and his family through an observational lens. Razzak, an unemployed father of two, endeavours to own an auto-rickshaw for…
In the city of Srinagar, Nargis searches for her missing husband, Manzoor, until she is forced to hopelessly return to her village home. With a little help from a local man Yaseen, she silently toils away on an exquisite weave.…
Set in Belgaum, a small town riddled with territorial disputes between two linguistic communities, Raghu, a radicalized journalist, works for an online media that acts as a mouthpiece of an extremist leader. Raghu is strongly influenced with the leader’s words…
The film is the result of seven years of documentation of the lives of the street people of old Delhi – beggars, pickpockets, loaders, small scale factory workers, street singers, street vendors etc. Working with a non-linear fashion, the film…
As Irrfan once said, “There was a movie I once did called Maqbool. After watching it, I swear, Shakespeare himself called me up and said, ‘Irrfan you nailed it,” Though this dialogue was part of a comic stint, the actor’s…
Inspired by the 2008 double-murder in New Delhi that sent shivers down the spine, Talvar takes on the difference in perspectives, guilty minds and the system of class that all play a hand in deciding the victim and the criminal.…
‘Death aur shit…yeh do cheezen kisi ko, kahin bhi, kabhi bhi aa sakti hai’ (Death and shit…these are two things that can happen to anyone, anywhere and at any point of time) These words that Irrfan’s Rana says when he berates…
‘Ah, remember it always. Remember that you and I made the journey and went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.’ This poignant moment between Ashoke Ganguly and his young son Gogol becomes a memory not…
A tale as old as time of two opposites being drawn to each other, Qarib Qarib Singlle takes on this central premise to introduce Irrfan into the world of romantic comedies. Parvathy plays a widow who tries to break out of…