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If you live in India and have not seen ‘Drishyam,’ you have waived all your rights to be called a film appreciator, nor can you call yourself a simple filmgoer. Better find a rock, and start living under it. Drishyam originally is a 2013 Malayalam language thriller. ‘Originally’ because this movie was remade in other …
Mythology or Ithasaa are just labels, and some might find it controversial if I attach Jyotish to a similar placeholder. Jyotish entwines mythological fables in its narration and allows exploration of the human condition. One such fable rises from the highly celebrated ‘Ramayana.’ The prime antagonist of the epic, Ravan. Ravan is a study of contradictions, the …
Watching this series, I learned a new term, ‘limited-series.’ You see, we had two distinctions with stories on the screen, to begin with. One was at a three-hour-long format called the Movie. When stories were ‘too long to fit in a movie format, we had the serial — Typically, thirteen or twenty-six half-hour episodes telecasted …
