Happy to announce that Filmy Sasi will be covering the 36th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival taking place from September 24 to October 31, 2020. Below are excerpts from the press released issued by the organizers: September 14, 2020 – Los Angeles, CA The largest festival of its kind in Southern California, […]
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Top 10 Picks from Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2017…
Mumbai city’s much-loved Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival has come to an end. This year at its 19th edition, the festival attracted film buffs and fraternity members as always. The Mumbai Film Festival, as certain delegates would vouch for, is different from other Government-run festivals in India. The organizers – […]
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“Apostasy” is a quiet, distressing portrait of family ties and rigid orthodoxy!
Jehova’s Witnesses – One Christian denomination that’s been generating curiosity in me for long. Even in India where Christianity is a minority and Witnesses even fewer in number, it has always intrigued me on how they indulged in door-to-door preaching and pamphlet distribution, both of which involved pretty direct religious […]
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“Redoubtable” – A stylish retro piece that Godardians will lap up instantly!
Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable is manna from the heaven for Jean-Luc Godard fanboys. Be it the lead character Godard’s somewhat toxic rebellion or his own erroneous ideas about a Marxist society, the film spectacle the transitional years in the veteran filmmaker’s life. Set amidst the New Wave Movement that took place […]
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“Summer 1993” – Carla Simón’s outstanding debut drenches you in a sea of emotions!
Do you remember those discreet overheard conversations from childhood? Some were hard to sink in. And there are others that remain entrenched for a lifetime. You weren’t the intended recipient in the first place. Then again, how would a child govern his/her own perceptions? Debutante director Carla Simón’s autobiographical Summer […]
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“Daha (More)” – Growing up in times of diminishing human worth…
Minor protagonists don’t have it very easy in cinema. Particularly if the film demands them to wipe off their lovable cinematic foibles, the actors tend to goof up (probably) in absence of conceivable references. As a matter of fact, it is not easy for us to hold our collective sighs […]
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‘S Durga’ review – Goddesses in a godless universe
An inter-cultural couple? Bad idea. Hitchhiking in the night? Bad idea again. Repeating the same mistakes with a gang of sadist sociopaths? Let me stop here. This is exactly what forms the premise of director Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s provocatively titled S Durga. Eerily reminiscent of the recent assault on a […]
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“Mukkabaaz” is Anurag Kashyap’s sweeping ode to Bollywood’s ‘Good vs Evil’ sagas!
Tusshar Sasi | 13th October 2017 Earlier this year, I got to watch Rahul Dahiya’s G Kutta Se. Although canvassed in a far more rural setup, the film projected a similar atmosphere – of caste-based power politics, religious intolerance, honour and the pre-assigned role of women in the social arrangement. […]
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‘The Other Side of Hope’ review – about hatred, humanity, and a little humour
The initial reel of veteran Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope leaves us confused on the film’s genre. Famous for his rich oeuvre of clever, humorous plots, his latest film begins with a spate of silence that incidentally conveys quite a lot. Only to be halted by a live acoustic performance […]
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“It’s Only The End of The World”… A flawed yet deeply involving family drama!
Xavier Dolan’s family drama It’s Only the End of the World is a case of curious writing. One might accuse him of rather flaky, convenient narrative pattern, and rightfully so. At the same time, the film is so confident in its skin that you nearly buy everything you’re served. Also […]